Dissociative Disorders

Question 1

These involve disturbances or alterations in the functions of identity, memory and consciousness.

Answer 1

Dissociative Disorders

Question 2

There are 5 types of Dissociative Disorder:

Answer 2

Dissociative Amnesia
Dissociative Fugue
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Depersonalization Disorder
Dissociative Disorder NOS

Question 3

Involves inability to recall important personal information usually of a stressful or traumatic nature.

Answer 3

Dissociative Amnesia

Question 4

Involves sudden unexpected travel away from home or one’s customary place of work, with inability to recall one’s past; also confusion about personal identity or assumption of a new identity.

Answer 4

Dissociative Fugue

Question 5

Involves the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states.

Answer 5

DID

Question 6

T/F at least two of these identities or personality states recurrently take control of person’s behaviour.

Answer 6

TRUE

Question 7

Persons with DID will also have the inability to recall important..

Answer 7

Personal Information too extensive to simply be forgetfulness.

Question 8

Involves experiences of feeling detached from one’s body or mental processes

Answer 8

Depersonalization Disorder

Question 9

T/F During the depolarization state, reality testing is not intact.

Answer 9

FALSE - Reality Testing remains intact.

Question 10

A disruption in the normally integrated functions of consciousness, identity or memory that does not meet the criteria for any specific dissociative disorder.

Answer 10

Dissociative Disorder NOS