Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders Flashcards
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Somatic Symptom Disorder symptoms
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- one or more somatic symptoms (e.g., pain, fatigue) that significantly disrupt everyday life
- excessive thoughts, actions, or feelings about somatic symptoms
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Somatic Symptom Disorder specifiers
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- with predominant pain
- persistent
- severity level: mild, moderate, or severe
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Somatic Symptom Disorder treatment
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- CBT: reduce obsessive thinking about bodily concerns, correct misinformation and address cognitive distortions that maintain fears & anxiety
- MBCT: reduce suffering from sympoms
- specialised treatment for severe bodily distress syndromes (STreSS): treat somatic syndromes
- group therapy
- family psychoeducation
- medication: SSRIs
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Illness Anxiety Disorder symptoms
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persistent & severe anxiety and preoccupied thoughts related to having/acquiring serious illness
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Illness Anxiety Disorder treatment
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- psychoeducation
- exposure & response prevention
- CBT: change meaning assigned to bodily sensations
- MBCT: decrease health anxiety
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Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder) symptoms
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presence of neurologic symptoms w/o actual neurological or other diagnosis that accounts for all symptoms
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Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder) treatment
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- CBT: address specific symptoms
- medication
- psychoeducation for family & friends
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Factitious Disorder symptoms
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falsifying symptoms or causing injury/disease to self or another
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Factitious Disorder treatment
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treatment with medical & psychological interventions
