Exam 2

Question 1

Explain conversion disorder

Answer 1

Overwhelming psychological distress that is then turned into psychical stress
Often recover rapidly one the stress is over
There is a secondary gain

Question 2

Explain hypochondriacs and example

Answer 2

1. They believe they have a serious illness
   2.disregard doctors advice
2. Constantly seeking out more medical attention
3. Lots of fear
4. Constantly checking themselves for symptoms
   Example- a woman checks into 3 different hospitals because the last two wouldn’t do the operations she wanted.

Question 3

Explain Body dysmorphic disorder
Bdd and treatment

Answer 3

Focused on what they see is wrong with their body
Constantly checking flaws
May get plastic surgery
Secondary gain
Treatments are: gradual exposure therapy, develop new coping skills
Increased social support

Question 4

Explain muchausen syndrome factitious disorder/ example

Answer 4

History of un controllable lying
Demand medical attention
Often dramatize vague pain
May manipulate test
May get unnecessary surgery
Secondary gain

Example- a woman comes into a hospital, bleeding the doctors run tests and find nothing. Nurses find She has a needle and blood thinner.

Question 5

Explain Muchausen by proxy and example

Answer 5

Someone’s care giver or parents, makes the other person “ill” on purpose to get them unnecessary surgery’s
Secondary gain-person is believed to be a hero
Example- gipsy rose

Question 6

Explain and example of malingering disorder

Answer 6

A person will fake an injury or mental health issue
Secondary gain, they might get money through disability
The symptoms seem to disappear when they get the secondary gain
Example- someone lying to a doctor about pain or stress to get medications they can abuse.

Question 7

Explain Generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 7

Must be for 6 months or longer
1.Worry and apprehension about the future
2. Hyper vigilance, scanning the room for danger, leads to insomnia
3. Motor tension psychically tense, exaggerated startle response
4.autonomic reactivity.

Question 8

Explains panics attacks

Answer 8

1. A sudden rush is very intense fear,anxiety- very short
2. Atleast 1 month or longer
3. feel like they are going to die
4. May faint or shake

Question 9

Treatments for panic attacks no medication

Answer 9

Quits smoking weed or cigarettes sugar and caffeine
Go to therapy
Increase social support
Balanced diet and workout everyday

Question 10

Explain social anxiety

Answer 10

-Has a huge fear of being in public, possibly getting embarrassed or being watched.
Example a kid drops a class because you have to speak in front of people.

Question 11

Explain agoraphobia
And treatment

Answer 11

• they have a history of panicked attacks.
  -They fear being in public or open spaces

Treatment- systemic desensitization

Question 12

Explain O.C.D

Answer 12

O- intrusive/unwanted thoughts
C- actions done to bring down their anxiety
D- out of control, they know it’s out of control.
- must do for an hour per day
- they do the action because they think something bad will happen

Question 13

Examples of OCD

Answer 13

1. Contamination, constantly cleaning themselves or things
2. Symmetry, rearranging things till they feel lots right
3. Doubts, checking the lock over and over again, even know they know they locked it

Question 14

What is systemic desensitization

Answer 14

Gradual exposure to fears on a scale of 1-10 exposing them to each over time

Question 15

What is traditional treatment for OCD

Answer 15

-Cbt is involved, very structured
-Gives them assignments and use token economy for reward
-To delay compulsion
- coping skills start being developed

Question 16

What is brain lock for ocd

Answer 16

1. Re-label, develop an impartial spectator, pull back
2. Re-attribute, that’s not me it’s ocd telling me these thoughts.
3. Re focus, I am experiencing a symptom of ocd
4. Re-value, building self esteem/anticipate, plan, accept.