DID Flashcards
In dissociative disorders, the person loses track of all of the following EXCEPT:
What do they lose track of?
sensory abilities
lose
self-awareness, memory and identity
About _____ percent of women and 2.5 percent of men report that they have experienced some form of childhood sexual abuse
13.5%
Both _____ theorists generally consider pathological dissociation to be an avoidance response that protects the person from consciously experiencing stressful events.
psychodynamic and behavioral
The dissociative disorders are all presumed to be caused by a common mechanism, _____, which results in some aspects of cognition or experience being inaccessible consciously.
Dissociation
In this disorder, the person is suddenly unable to recall important personal information, usually information about some traumatic experience and the holes in memory are too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.
Dissociative amnesia
Memory for emotionally _____ stimuli is enhanced by stress, while memory for _____ stimuli is impaired.
relevant : enhanced
neutral : impaired
In a more severe subtype of amnesia called _____, the memory loss is more extensive.
fugue
Paul was found standing in front of a shop window. He looked as if he had been in some kind of an accident. He was unable to recall his name, any personal information or what had happened, but was able to talk, read and play the piano. He did not recognize his wife when she came to pick him up. Paul most likely is suffering from
dissociative amnesia
_____ memory involves the conscious recall of experiences, for example, describing a bike you had as a child while _____ memory underlies behaviors based on experiences that are not consciously recalled.
Explicit/ implicit (sub)
_____ memory underlies behaviors based on experiences that are not consciously recalled, for example, memory of how to ride a bike underlies the behavior of actually riding one.
Implicit
ary, living in a small town, was recognized by a visitor as Tom, who used to live in a city about 300 miles away. Gary did not recognize the person nor did he remember anything about life in another city. Gary was told that he disappeared shortly after his wife left him, and he lost his house. He also could not recall how he got to the town he was currently in. Gary is most likely suffering from this DSM-IV-TR disorder _____
dissociative fugue.
In _____ disorder, the person’s perception or experience of the self is disconcertingly and disruptively altered. This disorder is frequently comorbid with personality disorders, anxiety disorders and depression.
depersonalization
Other disorders that commonly involve the symptoms of depersonalization include each of the following EXCEPT:
dependent personality disorder.
With DID, the _____ alter may be totally unaware that the other alters exist.
primary
DID usually begins in _____, but it is rarely diagnosed until _____.
childhood/adulthood
People with DID do not show the thought disorder and behavioral disorganization characteristic of
schizo
This model of the cause of DID proposes that some people are particularly likely to use dissociation to cope with trauma, which is a key factor in causing people to develop alters.
posttraumatic
This model considers DID to be the result of learning to enact social roles; alters appear in response to suggestions by therapists and exposure to media reports of DID.
socio cognitive
Therapists who are most likely to diagnose DID tend to use all of the following EXCEPT:
truth serum
All of the following are true of DID EXCEPT:
people with DID often get better on their own.
Both the posttraumatic and sociocognitive models assume that _____ _____ may set the stage for DID.
severe child abuse
It has been estimated that somatic symptom disorders lead to medical expenditures of _____ billion per year in the United States.
$256
DSM-5 proposes to merge pain disorder and somatization disorder into the following category:
complex somatic symptom disorder
DSM-5 proposes to merge hypochondriasis into the following category:
complex somatic symptom disorder
DSM-5 proposes to merge conversion disorder and body dysmorphic disorder into the following category:
.
functional neurological disorder
The main feature of _____ is a preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease despite having no somatic symptoms.
illness anxiety disorder
The DSM-5 proposes that the duration for any of the complex somatic symptom disorders is at least _____ months.
6
After sleeping awkwardly on her arm, Susan woke with pain in her shoulder. She immediately assumed she had bone cancer. Over the next six months, Susan became more and more convinced that she had cancer each time she had pain. This is a typical reaction for her when she experiences physical symptoms. Per the DSM-5, Susan would probably be diagnosed with
illness anxiety disorder
In _____, the person suddenly develops neurological symptoms, such as blindness or paralysis.
functional neurological disorder
In _____ disorder, sensory or motor symptoms begin suddenly and suggest an illness related to neurological damage.
functional neurological disorder
While it might seem easy to distinguish between a functional neurological disorder from a true neurological problem, an example of how tricky it can be are the diagnosis of “glove anesthesia” and
carpal tunnel syndrome.
Louise was in a minor traffic accident. The following day she called into work complaining that she was having trouble walking as a result of the accident. She started the process of filling for disability. One day a co-worker saw her playing tennis at the local park. Louise was probably
malingering
This condition occurs when patients are missing some of the key cells in the visual system of the brain and believe they are blind, but they can perform well on some specific types of visual tests.
blindsight
Functional neurological disorder occupies a central place in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories because its symptoms provide a clear role of the _____.
unconscious
People with somatic symptom disorders do each of the following EXCEPT:
believe what doctors tell them
focus on the psychological component of the symptoms.
One of the major obstacles to treatment of people with somatic symptom disorders is
they don’t want to consult mental health professionals.
Techniques used by cognitive behavioral therapists to treat people with somatic symptom disorders have included helping people to do each of the following EXCEPT:
identify unconscious motivations.
For somatic symptom disorders with pain, these medications are preferred over opioid medications.
antidepressants
For somatic symptom disorders with pain, this medication is especially effective when given in a low dose.
imipramine
