DID and SSRD

Question 1

An experience of detachment from one’s self or surroundings

Answer 1

Depersonalization Disorder

Question 2

A sense of detachment from one’s surroundings

Answer 2

Derealization Disorder

Question 3

A type of disorder where some aspect of emotion, memory, or experience being inaccessible consciously

Answer 3

Dissociation Disorders

Question 4

What do psychodynamic and behavioral theorists believe causes dissociation?

Answer 4

An avoidance response that protects the person from consciously experiencing stressful events

Question 5

What are other believed causes of dissociation?

Answer 5

Trauma and sleep disturbance; in one study of preschoolers, abuse led to sleep disturbance, which predicted parental report of child dissociation

Question 6

What sets depersonalization/derealization disorder apart from common dissociation?

Answer 6

Symptoms are persistent or recurrent, and does not involve disturbance of memory

Question 7

What are depersonalization/derealization disorder symptoms usually triggered by?

Answer 7

Stress

Question 8

When does the onset of depersonalization/derealization disorder begin?

Answer 8

Adolescence (10-19)

Question 9

About__% of people with depersonalization/derealization disorder will experience anxiety disorders or depression

Answer 9

90

Question 10

True or False: Comorbid personality disorders are frequently present when diagnosed with depersonalization/derealization disorder

Answer 10

True

Question 11

What are the DSM-5 criteria for depersonalization/derealization disorder?

Answer 11

Experiences of detachment from one’s mental processes or body, as though one is in a dream (Depersonalization); Experiences of unreality of surroundings (Derealization); Symptoms are persistent or recurrent; Reality testing remains intact; Symptoms are not explained by substances, another dissociative disorder, another psychological disorder, or by a medical condition

Question 12

This is the inability to recall important personal information, usually about a traumatic experience

Answer 12

Dissociative amnesia

Question 13

True or False: All types of memory are lost during episodes of dissociative amnesia

Answer 13

False; procedural memory remains intact

Question 14

What are the symptoms of Dissociative Amnesia?

Answer 14

Inability to remember important autobiographical information (usually of a traumatic or stressful nature), that is too extensive to be ordinary forgetfulness; Amnesia is not explained by substances, or by other medical or psychological conditions

Question 15

The most severe subtype of dissociative amnesia, wherein there is extensive memory loss (cases where people will run away, disappear, possibly create a whole new life)

Answer 15

Fugue subtype

Question 16

True or False: People with dissociative fugue subtype remember details of their life, including the events that took place during the fugue

Answer 16

False; they remember details of their life EXCEPT for those experienced during the fugue

Question 17

Disorder where a person has at least 2 separate personalities (alters)

Answer 17

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Question 18

What are some characteristics of DID?

Answer 18

Each alter has different modes of being, thinking, feeling, and acting; Alters exist independently of one another; Alters emerge at different times; Primary alter may be unaware of existence of others alters–may have no memory of what other alters do

Question 19

True or False: Usually the primary alter seeks treatment

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Most commonly, _ to _ alters are identified when the diagnosis is made, but over the course of treatment others may emerge

Answer 20

2-4