Dissociative, Somatic, And Sleep-wake Disorders Flashcards
Disturbance of, or alteration in, the usually integrated functions kd consciousness, memory, identity and perception
Dissociative disorders
Causative theories on dissociative disorder
Biological factors Genetic factors Psychosocial factors Psychodynamic theory Psychological trauma
Dissociative disorder: impaired ability to integrate memory
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociate disorder: inability to maintain one’s identity
Dissociative fugue or dissociative identity disorder
Dissociative disorder: persistent or recurrent disruption in perception… Detachment from the mind or body
Depersonalization
Dissociative disorder: unreality of surroundings
Derealization
Signs and symptoms of depersonalization
Dreamy
A sense of unreality
Slow movement of time
Sees self from a distance or detachment
Signs and symptoms of derealization
Unreal
Dreamlike
Distance or distorted experience in familiar surroundings
Dissociative amnesia: specific events during a specific period of time
Local
Dissociative amnesia: who they are, autobiographical data and general knowledge of the world
Generalized
dissociative identity disorder: insistence that alternate personalities inhabit separate bodies and are unaffected by the actions of one another
Cognitive distortion
dissociative identity disorder: unaware of the subpersonalities and is perplexed by lost time and unexplained events
Primary personality
dissociative identity disorder: often aware of the existence of each other to some degree
Subpersonalities
dissociative identity disorder: times of stress and may range from a dramatic to a barely noticeable event
Transition
dissociative identity disorder: lasting from minutes to months… Shorter periods are more common
Shift
Physical signs and symptoms with abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Absence of physical findings or medical illness
Somatic disorders
Causative theories of somatic disorders
Genetic and familial factors
Learning and sociological factors
Psychological theory
Interpersonal model
Somatic disorder: deliberate fabrication of symptoms or slef-injury without obvious gains
Factitious disorder
Factitious disorder: deliberate fabrication of symptoms or injury is imposed upon another person often a child or another victim
Factitious disorder imposed on another
Factitious disorder: disorder by deception … Most severe and chronic form… “doctor shopping” in attempts to seek surgery and invasive diagnostic tests
Munchausen syndrome
Factitious disorder: manifested by a caregiver (usually a mother with a health care background)… Injuring a child to receive attention or sympathy
Munchausen syndrom by proxy