Somatoform Disorders

Question 1

To convert psychological symptoms into physical symptoms; usually a much more common problem than the disorders themselves

Answer 1

Somatization

Question 2

Examples of Somatic Symptom Disorders (5 total)

Answer 2

Somatic Symptom Disorder
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Conversion Disorder
Factitious Disorder
Psych. Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions

Question 3

Disproportionate and persistent thought/anxiety about the seriousness of PRESENT symptoms; worry is disproportionate to degree of symptoms

Answer 3

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Tx: psychotherapy

Question 4

Disproportionate and persistent thought/anxiety about HAVING or ACQUIRING a serious illness (but NO symptoms present); repeated checking of body and can be either care-avoidant or care-seeking; preoccupation >6 months

Answer 4

Illness Anxiety Disorder

Tx: limit-setting b/w PCP and patient

Question 5

When a psychological/behavioral factor makes a PRESENT medical condition worse (poor adherence, exacerbation, etc.); examples are anxiety–> asthma, ignoring MI symptoms–> death

Answer 5

Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions

Question 6

Altered motor or sensory function (blindness, paralysis, or other nervous system (neurologic) symptoms) that cannot be explained by medical evaluation

Answer 6

Conversion Disorder

Question 7

Difference between Factitious and Conversion disorder

Answer 7

Factitious: consciously causing an illness (to themselves or others)
Conversion: unconsciously caused an illness (to themselves)

Question 8

Falsification of physical or psychological signs or symptoms, or induction of a disease/injury meaning to deceive (either self or by proxy) in the absence of obvious external rewards (to play the sick role)

Answer 8

Factitious Disorder

Question 9

To fake an illness in order to avoid jail, obtain disability benefits, get prescribed controlled substances, etc.

Answer 9

Malingering

Question 10

Two or more personalities with marked discontinuity in sense of self or agency; recurrent gaps in recall of everyday events (NOT just traumatic events)

Answer 10

Dissociative Identify Disorder (“Split Personality”)

Question 11

An inability to recall important autobiographical info, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature (localized and selective amnesia); NOT attributed to substances or neurologic condition; can have fugue

Answer 11

Dissociative Amnesia

Question 12

(Localized/Selective) amnesia is failure to recall events during a circumscribed period of time

Answer 12

Localized

Question 13

(Localized/Selective) amnesia is when you can recall some, but not ALL of the events within a circumscribed period of time

Answer 13

Selective

Question 14

Complete loss of memory for one’s life history and personal identity

Answer 14

Generalized Amnesia

Question 15

Feeling detached from one’s own body, thoughts, perceptions, and actions

Answer 15

Depersonalization

Question 16

Feeling detached from one’s environment

Answer 16

Derealization