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Psy 3010 Ch 5,6,10 Flashcards

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  • Factitious disorder in which a person causes symptoms and claims he/she has a physical or mental disorder.
  • More common in women and rare.
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Munchhausen Disorder

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Refers to the deliberate production of physical or psychological symptoms with some external motivation.

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Malingering

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Deliberately falsifying or producing physical or psychological symptoms.

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Factitious disorder

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Involves at least one physical symptom that causes a person a great deal of distress as well as impairment in daily functioning.
-Person has recurrent thoughts that the symptom is serious or has great anxiety about the symptom or one’s health.

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Somatic Symptom disorder

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  • Person is preoccupied with having some serious disease that may explain general bodily changes.
  • May worry about having a particular disease even after medical tests prove otherwise.
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Illness Anxiety disorder

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  • Experience motor or sensory problems that suggest a neurological or medical disorder, even though one has not been found.
  • Ex: sudden blindness, deafness
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Conversion disorder

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  • Education of children and parents
  • Attending to uncommon bodily changes.
  • Cope with traumatic events
  • Adequate health care
  • Anxiety management
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Somatic symptom disorder treatment

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  • Interviews
  • Questionnaires
  • Personality Assessment
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Somatic symptom disorder assessment

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  • Cognitive therapy

- Behavior Therapy

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Psychological treatments of Somatic symptom disorder

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Involves examining inaccurate statements a person may be making and encouraging the person to challenge the thought and think more realistically.

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Cognitive Therapy

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Helps a person reduce excess behaviors such as checking symptoms and visiting doctors.

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Behavior therapy

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Lexapro, Prozac, Luvox, and Paxil

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Somatic symptom disorder treatment

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Selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitors

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Lexapro,Prozac, Luvox, Paxil

Improves anxiety and depression

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Separation of emotions, thoughts, memories, or other inner experiences from ones self.

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Disassociation

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Disassociation examples

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Daydreaming, spacing out, cannot recall all details of certain events

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Involve disturbances in consciousness, memory, or identity.

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Dissociative disorders

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Forgetting highly personal information, typically after a traumatic event.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Have two or more personalities within themselves

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Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder)

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Involves persistent experiences of detachment from one’s body as if in a dream state.

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Depersonalization/Derealization disorder

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15% of people exposed to a traumatic event report high levels of

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dissociative symptoms

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21
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Symptoms of these disorders are hidden within other disorders

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Dissociative disorders

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Semi-structured interview used for dissociative disorders

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SCID-D-R

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Dissociative Experiences Scale

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Questionnaire used for dissociative disorders

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Readiness to act in a certain way

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Personality trait

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Extreme levels of personality traits that cause great impairment in functioning, especially social and occupational functioning.
Personality disorder
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Unusual way of thinking about self or others
Cognitive feature
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Unusual way of experiencing and expressing emotions
Affective feature
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Unusual way of interacting with others
Interpersonal feature
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Unusual way of controlling impulses
Impulse control
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Constantly mistrustful and suspicious of others, even those they know well.
Paranoid personality disorder
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Have little interest in establishing or maintaining relationships with others and show little emotional expression. -Few friends, rarely marry, few expressions
Schizoid Personality disorder
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Interpersonal deficits, cognitive and perceptual aberrations, and behavioral eccentricities
Schizotypal personality disorder
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Pattern of behavior that reflects an extreme disregard for and violation of the rights of others.
Antisocial personality disorder
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Diagnostic construct related to antisocial personality disorder
Psychopathy
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A pattern of impulsivity and unstable affect, interpersonal relationships, and self-image.
Borderline personality disorder
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Displays pervasive and excessive emotionality and attention seeking.
Historionic personality disorder
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Display grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy for others.
Narcissistic personality disorder
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Pervasive pattern of anxiety, feelings of inadequacy, and social hypersensitivity.
Avoidant personality disorder
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Pervasive, excessive need to be cared for, leading to submissiveness, clinging behavior, and fears of separation.
Dependent personality disorder
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Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Traditional view of borderline personality disorder
Borderline of neurosis and psychosis.
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Prone to various anxiety and physical disorders because of their worrying, indecision, and stress.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers
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3 risk factors for personality disorders
Child maltreat, poor interpersonal skills, emotional dysregulation
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neurotransmitter is most linked to avoidant/fearful personality disorders
Nordadrengeric and GABA
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A period of time, usually several minutes, in which a person experiences intense feelings of fear, apprehension that something terrible will happen and physical symptoms.
Panic attack
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Extreme levels of worry about various events or activities. Is a life long problem.
Generalized Anxiety disorder.
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Obsessions occur spontaneously, frequently, and intrusively.
Obsessive compulsive disorder distress
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Excessive or unreasonable fear or a particular object or situation
Specific/Situational phobia
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Preoccupied with an imaginary or slight defect in their appearance.
Body dysmorphic disorder
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Accelerated heart rate, chest pain, dizziness, feeling of chocking
Panic attack symptoms
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With regard to compulsions, how long would one last to be considered different from normal rituals such as counting change every time you empty your pockets?
Must take place at least 1 hour per day but often last much longer.
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Regularly experience unexpected panic attacks. At least one of the attacks must be followed by a month or more of concern about having another attack.
Panic disorder
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Anxiety about being in places where panic symptoms may occur, especially in places where escape may be difficult.
Agoraphobia
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Intense on going fear or potentially embarrassing social or performance situations
Social phobia
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How long after a traumatic event does PTSD most often develop?
3 to 6 months of trauma
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Marked by frequent re-experiencing of a traumatic event through images, memories, nightmares, or flashbacks
PTSD
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Distressing memories and dreams, negative mood, disassociation, avoidance, and arousal that last between 3 days to 1 month after the trauma.
Acute stress disorder
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which type of emotion is most often present with PTSD?
Detachment from others, fewer positive emotional responses, expectation of negative consequences
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Compulsion to pull out one's hair, eyelashes, eyebrows, and other body hair.
trichotillomania
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the genetic basis for twin studies on anxiety disorders shows
Anxiety related disorders do have some moderate genetic basis.
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which part of the brain is associated with fearful responses
Amygdala
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which part of the brain may be activated to create a perceived threat when there is actually none present
Septal-hippocampal system
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the neurotransmitter most closely related to mood and motor behavior
Seratonin
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In which a person slowly approaches a feared situation while practicing relaxation training and/or cognitive therapy.
systematic desensitization
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Involves exposing a person to fear with little preparation.
Flooding
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- Mental health professionals hold negative perceptions of people with these disorders. - Clients difficult to manage
Personality Disorders Stigma
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aspects of the brain that are related to somatic symptom disorders
Amygdala, Hypothalamus, Prefrontal cortex, cingulate cortex, somatosensory cortex
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aspects of the brain that are related to personality disorders
Amygdala, thalamus, basal ganglia, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus

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