Dissociative Disorders And Somatoform Disorders, Ch. 6

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Does dissociative or somatoform disorders cause person to experience disruptions of consciousness -- he or she loses track of self-awareness, memory and identity?

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Dissociative Disorders

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Does dissociative or somatoform disorders cause the person to complain of bodily symptoms that suggest a physical defect or dysfunction -- sometimes dramatic in nature -- for which no physiological basis can be found?

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Somatoform Disorders

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Name the dissociative disorders

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Amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder, and depersonalization disorder

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Dissociation

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Mechanism which results in some aspects of cognition or experience being inaccessible consciously.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Memory loss, typically of a stressful experience

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Dissociative Fugue

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Memory loss accompanied by leaving home and establishing a new identity

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Depersonalization Disorder

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Alteration in the experience of the self

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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At least two distinct personalities that act independently of each other.

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Inability to recall important personal information, usually information about some traumatic experience.

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Dissociative amnesia

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Is lost information of dissociative amnesia permanent?

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No, the information is not permanently lost, but it cannot be retrieved during the episode of amnesia, which may last for a short period of several hours or as long as several years.

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Does dissociative disorders typically involve deficit in explicit or implicit memory?

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Explicit memory

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Explicit Memory

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Involves conscious recall of experiences, for example, describing a bicycle you had as a child.

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Implicit Memory

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Behaviors based on experiences that are not consciously recalled, for example, how to ride a bike compared to actually riding a one.

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How many episodes must one have to meet the criteria of dissociative amnesia?

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One or more episodes of inability to remember important personal information, usually of a traumatic experience, that is too extensive to be ordinary forgetfulness.

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What is the DSM criteria for dissociative fugue?

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Sudden, unexpected travel away from home or work, inability to recall one's past, confusion about identity or assumption of a new identity, symptoms are not explained by another medical or psychological disorder

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Person's perception or experience of self is disconcertingly and disruptively altered. There is no disturbance of memory, and it is usually triggered by stress.

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Depersonalizaiton disorder

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What is the DSM criteria for DID?

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Presence of two or more personalities or alters, at least two of the alters recurrently take control of behavior, inability of at least one of the alters to recall important personal information

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What are the two major theories of DID?

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Posttraumatic model and sociocognitive model

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Posttraumatic Model

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Proposes that some people are particularly likely to use dissociation to cope with trauma, and this is seen as a key factor in causing people to develop alters after trauma.

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Sociocognitive Model

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Alters appear in response to suggestions by therapists, exposure to media reports of DID, or other cultural influences

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Describe the criteria for pain disorder

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Pain is severe enough to warrant clinical attention, psychological factors are thought to be important to the onset, severity, or maintenance of pain, the pain is not intentionally produced or faked, and the pain is not explained by another psychological condition.

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Person is preoccupied with an imagined or exaggerated defect in their appearance

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Body dysmorphic disorder

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Person has a preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease

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Hypochondriasis

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How long must symptoms last for a diagnosis of hypochondriasis?

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Symptoms must last at least 6 months

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What syndrome was called Briquet's syndrome?

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Somatization disorder

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Disorder defined by multiple, recurrent somatic complaints that have no physical explanation but still cause the person to seek treatment

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Somatization disorder

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Sudden sensory or motor symptoms, such as loss of vision or paralysis, that suggest illness related to neurological damage, but medical tests indicate bodily organs and nervous system are fine

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Conversion disorder

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Anesthesia

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The loss of sensation

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Aphonia

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Loss of the voice other than whispered speech

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Anosmia

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Loss of the sense of smell

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What are some symptoms of conversion disorder?

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Partial or complete paralysis of legs and arms; seizures and coordination disturbances; a sensation of prickling, tingling, or creeping on the skin; insensitivity to pain; anesthesia; impaired vision; aphonia; ansosmia

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What is the criteria for somatization disorder?

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History of seeking treatment for many physical complaints beginning before the age of 30 and lasting for several years; at least four pain symptoms, as well as at least two gastrointestinal symptoms, one sexual symptom, and one pseudoneurological symptom; symptoms are not due to a medical condition or are excessive given the person's medical condition; symptoms do not appear to be faked.

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Localized Amnesia

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Present in an individual who has no memory of specific events that took place, usually traumatic. The loss of memory is localized with a specific window of time. For example, a survivor of a car wreck who has no memory of the experience until two days later is experiencing localized amnesia.

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Selective Amnesia

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Happens when a person can recall only small parts of events that took place in a defined period of time. For example, an abuse victim may recall only some parts of the series of events around the abuse.

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Generalized Amnesia

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Diagnosed when a person's amnesia encompasses his or her entire life.

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Continuous Amnesia

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The amnesia covers the entire period without interruption from a traumatic event in the past to the present.

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Systematized Amnesia

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Characterized by a loss of memory for a specific category of information. A person with this disorder might, for example, be missing all memories about one specific family member.

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Analgesia

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Absence of a sense of pain

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Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder

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Unexplained physical complaints that don't meet for somatization disorder

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Name four pain symptoms

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Pain in head, back, during sex and urination

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What are two gastrointestinal symptoms?

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Nausea, diarrhea, bloating not due to pregnancy or period

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Name one sexual symptom

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Erectile dysfunction

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Name one pseudoneurological Symptom

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Paralysis, urinary retention, blindness

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Conversion Disorder, Primary Gain

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Somatic: Symptoms are symbolic of some emotional conflict

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Conversion Disorder, Secondary Gain

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External benefits or responsibilities can be evaded

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What are the subtypes of conversion disorder?

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With motor symptom or deficit, with sensory symptom or deficit, with seizures and convulsions, with mixed presentation

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La belle indifference

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Relative lack of concern about symptoms