Chapter 6 (BAL) Flashcards
Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
used to be categorized under one general heading called?
Hysterical neurosis
What condition did Sigmund Freud suggest?
Conversion hysteria
Unexplained physical symptoms indicated the conversion of unconscious emotional conflicts into a more acceptable form.
Conversion hysteria
Hippocrates suggests that the cause of hysteria disorders can be traced to a?
Wandering uterus
Refer more generally to physical symptoms without known organic cause or to dramatic or “histrionic” behavior thought to be a
characteristic of women
Hysterical
Suggests a specific cause for certain disorders
Neurosis
Characterized by a pathological concern with physical functioning or appearance
SOMATIC SYMPTOM AND RELATED DISORDERS
Somatic symptom disorder was formerly known as?
Briquet’s syndrome
The experience of severe pain in which psychological factors play a major role in
maintaining or exacerbating the pain whether there is a clear physical reason for the
pain or not.
Somatic symptom disorder
Course of somatic symptom disorder
Chronic (and fluctuating)
Treatments for somatic symptom disorder
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Pharmacotherapy
Psychodynamic therapy
Most relevant comorbidity of somatic symptom disorder
Anxiety and depressive disorders
ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER was formerly known as?
Hypochondriasis
The idea of being sick instead of the physical symptom itself; individual is preoccupied with bodily symptoms, misinterpreting them as indicative of illness or disease
Illness anxiety disorder
Illness anxiety disorder is sometimes referred to as?
Disease conviction
The belief, accompanied by severe anxiety and sometimes panic, that the genitals are retracting into the abdomen.
Koro
Anxious concern about losing semen; associated with a vague mix of physical symptoms, including dizziness, weakness, and fatigue.
Dhat
Treatments for illness anxiety disorder
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Antidepressants
Psychodynamic therapy
Presence of a diagnosed medical condition clearly caused by a known medical disorder that is adversely affected (increased in frequency or severity) by one or more psychological or behavioral factors.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING MEDICAL CONDITION
Formerly known as conversion disorder
FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER
Physical malfunctioning without any physical or organic pathology to account for the malfunction.
FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER
Treatments for FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISORDER
NEUROLOGIST
SPEECH THERAPY
PHYSICAL OR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
BEHAVIOR THERAPY
STRESS REDUCTION OR DISTRACTION TECHNIQUES
PSYCHOTHERAPY (MENTAL HEALTH OPTION)
When an individual falsifies illness in themselves or another
Factitious disorder
Falsification of physical or psychological signs or symptoms, or induction of injury or disease, associated with identified deception.
Factitious disorder imposed on self
Falsification of physical or psychological signs or symptoms, or induction of injury or disease, in another, associated with identified
deception.
Factitious disorder imposed on others/ By proxy factitious disorder
Treatment for Factitious disorder
Psychotherapy
A false belief of being pregnant that is associated with objective signs and reported symptoms of pregnancy
Pseudocyesis
Characterized by a disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration of
consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor
control, and behavior.
Dissociative disorders
When feelings of unreality are so severe and frightening that they dominate an
individual’s life and prevent normal functioning
Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder
Your perception alters so that you temporarily lose the sense of your own reality, as if you were in a dream and you were watching yourself.
Depersonalization
The individual may feel as if he or she were in a fog, dream, or bubble, or as if there were a veil or a glass wall between the individual and the world around.
Derealization
Treatments for Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder
Cognitive techniques/Therapy
Behavioral techniques\Therapy
Grounding techniques/Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy
Inability to recall autobiographical information that is inconsistent with normal
forgetting.
DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA
5 types of dissociative amnesia
Localized
Selective
Generalized
Systematized
Continuous
Characterized by sudden, unexpected, purposeful travel away from home and bewildered wandering
DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE
Type of dissociative amnesia where an individual forgets an event or period of time
Localized
Type of dissociative amnesia where an individual forgets specific aspect of an event.
Selective
Type of dissociative amnesia where an individual forgets identity and life history.
Generalized
Type of dissociative amnesia where an individual has a loss of memory for a specific category of information
Systematized
Type of dissociative amnesia which occurs when the individual has no memory of events occurring after a particular event.
Continuous
Treatments for dissociative amnesia
hypnosis or a drug-induced semi hypnotic state
Psychotherapy
A rare condition in which two or more distinct identities, or personality states, are present
in—and alternately take control of—an individual.
DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER
Treatments for DID
long-term psychotherapy
Cognitive and creative therapies
Antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, or tranquilizers
