Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

Question 1

Inability to create sounds or speak

Answer 1

Aphonia

Question 2

Emphasizes the individual’s experiences of distressing somatic symptoms plus abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in response to these symptoms rather than the absence of a medical explanation for these somatic

Answer 2

Somatic symptom disorder

Question 3

Individuals assuming an opposite emotional stance, showing inappropriate indifference in the face of seemingly tragic and overwhelming medical events

Answer 3

La belle indifference

Question 4

Indicative of a disease

Answer 4

Pathognomonic

Question 5

Characterized as having physical complaints that are without clear cause

Answer 5

Illness anxiety disorder

Question 6

The tendency to derive one’s own bodily sensations as being unusually intense, aversive, and distressing

Answer 6

Somatosensory amplification

Question 7

Easy access to medical and diagnostic information via the internet has spawned a mutation of this phenomenon known as ___

Answer 7

Cyberchondria

Question 8

A type of somatic disorder, having been described since antiquity. The affected individual experiences a loss or change in physical functioning that suggests the presence of a physical disorder but cannot be explained on the basis of any known physiologic mechanism. In other word, this loss or change does not exist outside the individual’s own personal experience

Answer 8

Conversion disorder

Question 9

Considered when the individual has a symptom (or actual medical condition) as well as significant psychological or behavioral factors that adversely affect the medical condition

Answer 9

Psychological factors affecting other medical conditions

Question 10

In this condition, the person displays physical and psychological symptoms that are intentionally produced and are completely under the person’s voluntary control (as with malingering), but there is no obvious reason for voluntarily producing the symptoms except, possibly, to take on the sick role and receive increased attention

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Factitious disorder

Question 11

A variant of the factitious disorder, but this disorder typically occurs within the context of a relationship between the parent and child. This condition occurs when then parent or caregiver deliberately falsifies the child’s (or another adult’s or pet’s) medical history and subjects the child to unnecessary medical procedures (including unnecessary surgeries) and unneeded hospitalizations

Answer 11

Munchausen by proxy