Somatic and Related Disorders

Question 1

Does not typically involve somatic symptoms, individuals do not experience any specific physical ailment, but are instead preoccupied with concern about developing a severe medical condition

Answer 1

Illness Anxiety Disorder

Question 2

Any mental disorder that manifests as physical symptoms that suggest illness or injury, but cannot be fully explained by general medical condition

Answer 2

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Question 3

A type of somatic disorder that is sometimes applied to patients who present neurological symptoms (numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits) which are not consistent with a well-established organic cause, cause significant distress, and can be traced back to a psychological trigger

Answer 3

Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder (Conversion Disorder)

Question 4

A condition in which a person, without a malingering motive, acts as if they have an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms, to attain a patient’s role

Answer 4

Factitious Disorder

Question 5

Factitious Disorder imposed on self; some time the umbrella term for all such disorders

Answer 5

Munchausen Syndrome

Question 6

A condition which a person deliberately produces, feigns, or exaggerates the symptoms of someone in their care

Answer 6

Factitious Disorder imposed on Another / Munchausen by Proxy / Factitious Disorder by Proxy

Question 7

Genetic links to dissociation as it refers to childhood adversity

Answer 7

Biological Perspective

Question 8

Freud’s model suggested the emotional charge deriving from painful experiences would be consciously repressed as a way of managing the pain

Answer 8

Psychodynamic Perspective

Question 9

Identifies different kinds of memory– iconic, haptic, echoic, short-term, working, long-term, declarative, non-declarative, procedural, semantic, episodic, implicit, and more

Answer 9

Cognitive Perspective

Question 10

Those with lower socioeconomic status, education, and history of abuse are more likely to develop DID and other somatic disorders

Answer 10

Sociocultural Perspective

Question 11

A form of brain stimulation in which a changing magnetic field is used to cause an electric current at a specific area of the brain through electric induction

Answer 11

TMS