SSD

Question 1

Derealization

Answer 1

One’s sense of reality of the outside world is temporarily lost

Question 2

Depersonalization

Answer 2

• One’s sense of own self is temporarily lost

- Presisten or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from their own bodies and mental processes

Question 3

What trait do the 2 dissiative disorders have in common?

Answer 3

Feeling puzzled, the changed condidtion is perceived as unreal and as discontinuous with previous ego states. THey feel isolate, lifeless, strange and unfamiliar

Question 4

depersonalization/derealization disorders are sometimes reported by people with…

Answer 4

schizophrenia, BPD, panic and acute stress & PTSD

Question 5

What is the onset age?

Answer 5

16

Question 6

Dissosiate amneisia

Answer 6

• Can’t recall previously stored personal information when that failure cannot be accounted for by ordinary forgetting
• Gap in memory usually following a stressful event
• The forgetten information is still there just beneath a level of conciousness
• Can last between a few days and a few years
• Basic habit remain intact (read, skilled work, talk)

Question 7

What may a person retreat to when having dissociative amnesia

Answer 7

dissciative fugue: departs from home surroundings and and assumes a new identity; unaware of memory loss

Question 8

What is DID?

Answer 8

• Host/alter identities

- Usually begins in childhood, most diagnosed in teens, 20s, 30s,

Question 9

What is DID criteria?

Answer 9

• 2+ personality states, disruption in identity involves marked discontinuity in sense of self, sense of agency and alterations of behaviour, conciousness, memory, perception
• Gaps in recall of everyday events, important personal info, & traumatic events
• Not related to substance use

Question 10

Real or fake? Kenneth Bianchi

Answer 10

Thought to only develop after therapy

Question 11

How does DID develop?

Answer 11

• A child attempts to cope with overwhelming sense of hopelessness & powerlessness after repeated traumatic abuse

Question 12

What is the sociocognitive theory for how DID develops?

Answer 12

Develops when a highly suggestible person learns to adopt the roles of multiple identities since clinicians have inadvertantly suggested and reinforced them

Question 13

What are 2 cultural factors that can explain DID?

Answer 13

Spirit possession and dissociative trace

Pathological possession - by god or spirit

Question 14

What is Amok?

Answer 14

aggressive, violent behaviour following dissocitive episode

Question 15

What is the treatment for dissociative amnesia?

Answer 15

Person should be in safe environment away from threatening stimuli that initially brought them into that state

Question 16

What is treatment for DID?

Answer 16

psychodynamic & insight oriented apprach: uncovering and working through the trauma