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Dissociation |
Splitting off of clusters of mental contents from conscious awareness, a mechanism central to hysterical conversion and dissociative disorder |
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Munchausen Syndrome |
Fabricating symptoms for emotional gain; Pattern of behavior in which individuals fabricated or embellished their histories and signs and symptoms of illness. |
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Factitious Disorders |
Individual pretends to be ill in order to receive emotional care and support commonly associated with the role of "patient" |
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aphonia |
inability to produce voice |
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anosmia |
inability to perceive smell |
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Pseudocyesis |
false pregnancy |
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Fugue |
characterized by a sudden unexpected travel away from customary places of daily activities or by bewildered wandering, with inability to recall some or all of one's past |
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Tertiary gain |
The receipt of positive reinforcement for somaticizing by causing the focus of the family to switch to the individual and away from conflict that may be occurring withing the family. |
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Depersonalization |
disturbance in the perception of oneself |
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derealization |
Alteration in the perception of the external environment. |
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Integration |
a blending of all the personalities into one |
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abreaction |
remembering with feeling can be so painful that the clients my cry, scream, and feel the pain that they felt at the time of abuse. |
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Somatic symptom disorders |
characterized by physical symptoms suggesting medical disease but without demonstrable organic pathology or a known pathophysiological mechanism to account for them. |
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Somatic symptom disorders are more commonly found in |
Women > men Drug abuse and dependence Emotionally dependent on others, pre-occupid with self less educated persons Rural > urban |
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Types of Somatic Symptom disorders |
illness anxiety disorder Conversion disorder Factitious disorder |
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Illness anxiety disorder |
unrealistic or inaccurate interpretation of physical symptoms or sensations Preoccupation and fear of having serious disease |
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Conversion Disorder |
loss of or change in body function that cannot be explained by any known medical disorder or pathophysiological mechanism. |
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Primary gain |
describes the benefit to the client of avoidance of some unpleasant activity due to experiencing psychologically based pain. This avoidance directly decreases the client's anxiety. |
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Dissociative disorders |
a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, and identity |
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Dissociative amnesia |
inability to recall important personal information that is to extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness, and which is not due to the direct effects of substance use or a neurological or other medical condition |
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Localized amnesia |
inability to recall all incidents associated with the traumatic event for a specific period following the event. |
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selective amnesia |
inability to recall only certain incidents associated with a traumatic event for a specific period following the event. |
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Generalized Amnesia |
inability to recall anything that has happened during the individual's entire lifetime, including personal identity |
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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) |
Characterized by the existence of two or more personalities within a single individual.
Transition from 1 personality to another usually sudden, often dramatic, and usually precipitated by stress |
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Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder |
Characterized by a temporary change in the quality of self-awareness, which often takes the form of: Feelings of unreality Changes in body image Feelings of detachment from the environment A sense of observing oneself from the outside the body |
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Treatment for Somatic Symptom Disorders |
Individual psychotherapy group psychotherapy behavior therapy psychopharmacology |
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Treatment for Dissociative Disorders |
Individual psychotherapy hypnosis supportive care cognitive therapy group therapy integration therapy (DID) Psychopharmacology |