Somatic Symptoms And Related Disorders

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Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

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Formerly called Somatoform Disorders

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Illness Anxiety Disorder

Conversion Disorder

Factitious Disorder

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Somatic Symptom Disorder replaces

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Somatization Disorder

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Illness Anxiety Disorder replaces

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Hypochondriasis

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also called Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder

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Conversion Disorder

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Imposed on self or Imposed on other colloquially known as Munchausen’s Syndrome and Munchausen by proxy)

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Factitious Disorder

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All conditions are psychosomatic meaning…

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influenced by the mind-body

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Interventions for somatic disorders

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Physical intervention
Physiological intervention
Medical intervention
Psychotherapy

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A mental disorder with persistent and clinically somatic complaints

Coupled with: − Excessive thoughts, feelings and rash behaviors about the symptoms − Ranges from mild to severe

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Somatic disorders

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4 Types of Somatic Symptom Disorders

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Complex somatic symptom disorder
Factitious Disorder
Conversion Disorder
Somatic Symptoms (not otherwise specified)

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One or more somatic symptoms:
Excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that relate to somatic symptoms (or associated w/ health concerns)
Somatic symptom does not have to always be present but must be persistent

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DSM-V Criteria for Diagnosis for somatic disorders

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Symptoms of somatic disorder

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Headaches
Stomach aches
Even as severe as blindness, or inability to walk

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Functional Somatic Syndromes:

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
ME/CFS
Migraine headache

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Prevalence of Somatic Symptom Disorder

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1 to 21% in younger adults
10 to 20% in middle age adults
1.5 to 13% in older adults

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Biological/Environmental Factors and most well known causes of somatic disorders

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Stress
Exposure to trauma
Strong correlation between anxiety, depression, and somatic symptoms

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Conventional Treatment of somatic disorders

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Psychotherapy
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

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Challenges to care within somatic disorders

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Difficult to treat because Convincing patient it is not an actual medical symptom is not an easy

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When you actually treat the behavior, not the illness

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Treating fascticious disorder

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Hysteria

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Conversion disorder