Explaining Somatic Symptom Disorders Flashcards
Which disorder is characterized by one or more symptoms that cause distress and disruption to daily life, often without a clear medical explanation?
Somatic Symptom Disorder
What type of disorder is often chronic, with the severity influenced by the number of symptoms, age, level of impairment, and any comorbid conditions?
Somatic Symptom Disorder
n which disorder do cognitive features include attention focused on somatic symptoms, a belief that normal bodily sensations are indicative of physical illness, worry about illness, self-concept of bodily weakness, and intolerance of bodily complaints?
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Which disorder often leads individuals to seek care from general health services rather than mental health services?
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Which disorder is more frequently found in individuals with few years of education and those from low socioeconomic statuses?
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Which disorder requires the symptoms to be accompanied by excessive or disproportionate thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to the physical symptoms?
Somatic Symptom Disorder
In which disorder is the focus on the distress that particular symptoms cause, rather than the severity of the physical symptoms themselves?
Somatic Symptom Disorder
In Somatic Symptom Disorder, the belief that somatic symptoms reflect a serious physical illness is not held with delusional intensity. What does this indicate about the individual’s perception of their symptoms?
They have a genuine concern for their health but not to the extent of delusion or irrationality.
Which disorder is characterized by enhanced perceptual sensitivity to illness cues, where the individual is especially attuned to bodily sensations that they interpret as signs of illness?
Somatic Symptom Disorder
The amount of time required to diagnose Illness Anxiety Disorder.
6 Months and more.
Which disorder is characterized by a preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness, despite having minimal to no symptoms and mild intensity?
Illness Anxiety Disorder
In which disorder do individuals tend to interpret ambiguous stimuli (e.g., minor bodily sensations) as threatening, often believing these signals indicate a serious illness?
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Which disorder often develops in the context of a stressful life, where the individual’s worries about illness are magnified during stressful events?
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Which disorder is more common in individuals who have a disproportionate incidence of disease in their family when they were children?
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Frequently co-occurs with which other mental health conditions such as Anxiety disorders, OCD, and depressive disorders.
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Which disorder is commonly seen in individuals with a history of child abuse and neglect, leading to a heightened concern about illness?
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Illness Anxiety Disorder is how many times more common in women, as compared to men?
2-3 times
Panic Disorder and depressive disorders are commonly co-occurring with which other disorder, which involves concerns about illness and bodily symptoms?
Conversion Disorder
Which disorder is characterized by altered voluntary motor or sensory function, where there is an incompatibility between the symptom and recognized neurological or medical conditions?
Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder)
In which disorder is the cause of neurological symptoms rarely found upon follow-up, even though the symptoms appear to have a neurological origin?
Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder)
Which disorder involves the excessive use of denial, where the individual may have difficulty accepting that their symptoms do not have a medical explanation?
Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder)
In Conversion Disorder, what type of symptoms are typically observed?
Altered voluntary motor or sensory function
Which is diagnosed when there is a medical symptom present, but psychological or behavioral factors are judged to affect the course of the medical condition?
Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions
Which is diagnosed when psychological traits or behaviors affect a medical condition, but these behaviors do not meet the criteria for a mental diagnosis?
Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions
