Wk5 Somantic & Dissociative

Question 0

Typically female non white illness behaviour under Somantic symptom disorder used to be known as

Answer 0

Hypochondriasis (preoccupied fears of illness)
Somatization disorder (many physical complaints)
Pain disorder (severe pain not intentionally feigned)

Question 1

Somatic symptom disorder involve what

Answer 1

Complaint of bodily symptoms but no obvious medical explanation

Question 2

Conversion disorder is

Answer 2

Motor and or neurological behaviour that medical can not determine. Numbness,blindness

Question 3

Primary and secondary gain of conversion disorder is

Answer 3

Escape and avoidance of situation (primary)

External advantages such as attention, financial compensation (secondary)

Question 4

Distinguishing somatization, pain, conversion disorder has two distinguishes

Answer 4

Malingering, intentionally produced

Factitious, intentionally produced for attention. Take meds to produce illness

Question 5

Fictitious disorder imposed on another is

Answer 5

Munchausens syndrome

Question 6

Dissociative disorder is

Answer 6

Disruptions in consciousness, memory, identity, perception

Question 7

What is the primary and secondary gain in conversion disorder?

Answer 7

Primary gain is to escape or avoid stressful situations and the second gain is that the symptoms gain attention from loved ones financial compensation

Question 8

What are somatic symptoms disorders?

Answer 8

These lie at the interface of abnormal psychology and medicine. psychological problems that are manifested into physical symptoms occurs when the complaints last at least six months and do not seem to have a medical explanation

Question 9

What is illness anxiety disorder?

Answer 9

This occurs in individuals who are very anxious about illness even though there are no apparent symptoms

Question 10

What is conversion disorder or known otherwise as functional neurological symptom disorder?

Answer 10

This involves patterns of symptoms or deficits affecting sensory or voluntary motor function leading one to think there is a medical or neurological condition comes in forms of paralysis blindness etc

Question 11

What is the difference between factitious disorder and malingering?

Answer 11

In short external rewards
Fictitious disorder intentionally produces medical or psychological symptoms in absence of external rewards in order to take on an illness
malingering motivated by external factors such as wish to claim insurance money

Question 12

What are the primary features of dissociative disorders?

Answer 12

Consciousness identity disorganised things that normally regulate awareness