Dissociative Disorders Flashcards
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- disorders caused by a common mechanism, DISSOCIATION
- results in some aspects of cognition of experiences being inaccessible consciously
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Dissociative Disorders
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- unable to recall important personal information about some traumatic experience
- information is not permanently lost, but it cannot be retrieved during the episode of amnesia; may last for several hours-several years
- usually disappears as suddenly as it began, with complete recovery and only a small chance of recurrence
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Dissociative Amnesia
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- Latin word FUGERE “to flee”
- severe subtype of amnesia
- memory loss is more extensive
- relatively brief duration
- recovery is usually complete, though it takes varying amounts of time
- able to remember all the details of your life except for the EVENTS that occurred during the episode
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FUGUE
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Dissociative disorder involve deficits in _____________
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Explicit memory
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Conscious recall of experiences
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Explicit memory
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learning based on experiences that are not consciously recalled
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Implicit memory
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- person’s perception of self or surroundings is disconcertingly and disruptively altered; altered perceptions are usually triggered by STRESS
- NO Disturbance of memory
- lose sense of self, involves unusual sensory experiences
- may sometimes feel mechanical or robotic
- begins in adolescence
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Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
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- requires the person to have at least 2 separate personalities or alters
- different modes of being, thinking, feeling, and acting that exist independently of one another and exist at different times
- usually begins in childhood
- is rarely diagnosed until adulthood
- more severe and extensive than the other dissociative disorders
- recovery may be less complete
- more common in women than in men
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
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people use dissociation to cope with trauma, causing people to develop alters after the trauma
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Posttraumatic Model
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- DID as a result of learning to enact social roles
- alters appear in response to suggestions by therapists, exposure to media reports about DID, or other cultural influences
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Sociocognitive Model
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- goal should be to convince the person that splitting into different personalities is no longer necessary to deal with traumas
- can help teach the person more effective ways to cope with stress
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Treatment of DID
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- excessive concerns about physical symptoms or health
- physical symptoms that had no known physical cause
- labeled as SOMATOFORM because the symptoms took the form of bodily sensations
- tend to seek frequent medical treatment
- may try many different medications
- hospitalization and even surgery are common
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Somatic Symptom disorder
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- one or more somatic symptoms that are distressing or result in significant disruption in daily life
- excessive anxiety, concern, or time and energy devoted to the somatic concern
- duration of at least 6 months
- predominant somatic complaints, predominant health anxiety, or predominant pain
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Complex Somatic Symptom Disorder
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- preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease despite having no significant somatic symptoms
- for diagnosis, these fears must lead to excessive care seeing or maladaptive avoidance behaviors that persist for at least 6 months
- somewhat parallel to hypochondriacs
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Illness anxiety disorder
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- person suddenly develops neurological sumptoms such as blindness or paralysis
- labeled as conversion disorder
- symptoms suggest an illness related to neurological damage but tests indicate that everything is fine
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Functional Neurological Disorder
