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Factitious Disorder |
A. Falsification physical or psychological symptoms or introduction of injury or disease B. Individual presents to others as ill, impaired, or injured C. Deceptive behavior ksnevident D.behavior is not bacteria explained by another disorder |
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Factitious Disorder |
Patients may malinger, intentionally fake illness to a chive external gain Intentionally produce fake symptoms simply out of z wish to be a patient Unknown prevalence More common in women Begins during early childhood Precise cause not understood Depression Unsupportivd parental relationships Extreme need for social support |
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Conversation Disorder |
One or more symptoms of altered voluntary motor or sensory function Blindness, paralysis or loss of feeling, that have no neurological basis Symptoms are inconsistanf with known medical diseases Cause clinically significant distress in areas of functioning Those with conversion disorder do not want or produce their symptoms Individuals are converting psychological needs into neurological symptoms Onset late adolescence and young adulthood Two to three times more common in females Typically appears suddenly at times of stress |
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Somatic Symptom Disorder |
One or more somatic symptoms that axe distressing Excessive thoughts, feelings,behaviors related to somatic symptoms Experience many long-lasting physical ailments that have little or no organic basis Pain symptoms, sexual symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms, and neurological symptoms Predominant pain pattern Lasts for many years .2%-2% or women experience it Runs in families |
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Causes: Psychodymanic View |
Freud believed that hysterical disorders represented in a conversion of under,going emotional conflicts into physics, symptoms Psycho dynamic theorists propose that two mechanisms are at work: Primary gain - symptoms keep internal conflicts out of conscious awareness Secondary gain - symptoms further enabled people to avoid unpleasant activities or receive sympathy from others |
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Causes: Behavioral View |
Physical symptoms bring rewards to sufferers May remove individual from an unpleasant situation May bring attention from other people In response to such rewards, people learn to display symptoms more and more |
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Causes: Cognitive View |
Conversion and somatic symptom disorders are forms of communication, providing a means for people to express difficult emotions |
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Causes : The Multicultural View |
The transformation of personal distress into somatic complaints is the norm in many mom-Western cultures Both north and psychological reactions to life events are often influences by ones culture |
