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27 Cards in this Set
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What is an Alters?
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- 2+ identity/personality states
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What is body dysmorphic disorder?
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-peroccupation c an imagined defect in apperance
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What is conversion disorder?
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-loss of voluntary motor or sensory functioning that appears to represent physiologic pathology but instead relates to psychological conflict or need.
--> conversion sx: "pseudoneurologic" |
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What is depersonalization disorder?
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-recurring or persistent feeling that one is detached fomr one's own thinking.
--> clts feel that they are an observer- they are outside their mind or body |
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what is dissociation?
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-altering self-awareness in an effort to escape an upsetting event or feeling
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What is dissociative amnesia?
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-loss of memory that is not organic & is more extensive than normal forgetfulness
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What is dissociative disorders?
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-a disruption in the usually intergrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception
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What is dissociative fugue?
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-sudden travel away from home coupled c an inability to remember the past & confusion about identity ot the adoption of a new identity
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What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
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-multiple personality disorder
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What is dissociative trance?
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-person's awareness of his/her immediate surrounding narrows; may exhibit stereotyped behaviors (eg immobilization, collapse, or loud shrieking beyond his/her control)
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What is dyspareunia?
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-painful intercourse in men/women
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What is factitous disorder?
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-clts deliberately make up of inflict sx to gain attention/to occupy a sick role
-->Munchausen syndrome by proxy |
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What is hypervigillance?
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-the condition of maintianing an abnormal awareness of the body & its sensations
-->clts misinterpret & overreact to physical ssx |
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What is hypochondriasis?
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-clts have a fear or belive that they have a serious disease despite no significant pathology or other reason for thinking so
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What is malingering?
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-consciously create or exaggerate false sx to avoid work or other responsibilities or to have material gain
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What are paraphilias?
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-recurring, intense sexual arousing fantasies, sexual urges or behaviors generally involving:
1. nonhuman objects 2. suffering or humiliation of oneself or one's partner 3. children or other nonconsenting persons --> this occurs over a period of at least 6 months |
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What is premature ejactulation?
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-persistent or recurrent onset of orgasm & ejaculation c minimal sexual stimulation before, on, or shortly after penetration & before clt wishes
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what is primary gain?
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-ssx block psychological conflict or anxiety from conscious awareness
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what is secondary gain?
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-relieve clts from expected responsibilities & increasing the attention they recieve (can + reinforce & help perpetuate somatic ssx)
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What is sexual dysfunction?
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-sexual expression characterized by a disturbance in the process that characterizes the sexual response cycle or by pain associated c sexual intercourse
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what is somatization disorder?
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-clts have exaggerated, inconsistent, yet complicated medical hx. they often seek tx from mulitple healthcare providers when their physical c/o are not addressed to their satisfaction
--> hysteria or Briquet's syndrome |
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What are somatoform disorders?
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-clt experience physical ssx despite no underlying medical explanation for them; they are classified as mental disorders b/c PE & lab tests reveal no demonstrable organize pathology
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What is vaginismus?
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-recurrent or persistent involuntary spasms of the musculature of the outer 1/3 wall of the vagina that interferes c sexual intercourse
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What is Munchausen syndrome by proxy?
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-an adult (usually a parent) continously brings a child to the attention of healthcare providers for inexplicable & sudden illness. In reality the parent induces or fabricates the sickness to gain attention
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What is la belle indifference?
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-clts not alarmed or disturbed by their dramatic ssx
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What is satiation?
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-a technique in which sex offenders use their most erotic fantasies after orgasm in a boring, repetitive manner to extinguish their erotic quality
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what are signaled punishments?
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-a combination of aversion therapy & biofeedback of erections to deviant stimuli
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