Chapter 6 Homework
Somatic symptom disorder characteristic example
-Disproportionate and persistent thoughts about the seriousness of one's symptoms -Persistently high level of anxiety about health or symptoms
Conversion disorder characteristic examples
-One or more symptoms of deficits are present that affect voluntary motor or sensory function, with or without apparent impairment of consciousness -clinical findings provide evidence of internal inconsistency or incompatibility with recognize neurological or medical disease
Illness anxiety disorder characteristic examples
-preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness -High level of anxiety about health and a low threshold of becoming alarmed about their health
The individual with dissociative identity disorder has at least __________ distinct identities or personality states
2
In disassociative identity disorder, it is assumed that a person develops more than oneself or personality. These personalities are referred to as
Alters
Occasional episodes of the personalization and the realization are common, particularly when
An individual is sleep deprived
Jake arrives at the hospital and is not able to form new memories, such as the name of his current doctor or the location of the hospital. Jake seems to be suffering from
Anterograde amnesia
Neurological models suggest that conversion symptoms arise when sensory or motor areas of the brain or impaired by
Anxiety
In the treatment of somatic symptom disorder, __________ therapies attempt to determine and eliminate the reinforcement individuals receive for their symptoms, while increasing positive rewards for healthy behavior
Behavioral
Unstable relationships, chronic boredom, and self-injurious behavior are all symptoms of
Borderline personality disorder
What is the most common type of alter?
Child alter
Primary explanation of disassociative identity disorder focuses on
Childhood sexual or physical abuse
What predisposes an individual to disassociative identity disorder?
Childhood trauma
Which of the following statements about conversion disorder is true? -conversion disorder is a common disorder -children may display conversion symptoms, typically mimicking those of someone close to them who has a real illness -conversion disorder generally appears in clients older than 35 -at least half of individuals with conversion disorder have a medical condition, making it difficult to diagnose
Children may display conversion symptoms, typically mimicking those of someone close to them who has a male illness
Which type of theory posits that clients with somatic symptoms "catastrophize" their normal bodily sensations and that one of the goals of therapy is to help clients gain a more realistic appraisal of their bodies reactions?
Cognitive
Freyd and colleagues (2007) Suggest that individuals who dissociate from, and forget, their abusive experiences are most likely to perform differently from other individuals in
Cognitive tasks
___________ disorder involves the translation of psychological conflicts into bodily, motor or sensory symptoms that suggest a neurological or other kind of medical condition
Conversion
Emma oftentimes experiences dream like state where she feels detached from reality she may be suffering from
Depersonalization/derealization disorder
In what disorder does a person experience frequent episodes of feeling detached from his or her own body?
Depersonalization/derealization disorder
Individuals that suffer from large gaps in their memory without assuming no I didn't is most likely suffer from
Disassociative amnesia
A disorder in which different personalities can exist in a single body
Disassociative identity disorder
What is the process in which components of mental experience are split off from consciousness but remain accessible through dreams and hypnosis?
Dissociation
Santa abruptly left her college dorm. Her family found her five days later in another state, using another name, without recollection of her previous identity. From what is Sandra most likely suffering?
Dissociative fugue
Studies have shown that changes in the symptoms of people with somatic symptom disorder mirror their
Emotional well-being
Which is not typical of illness anxiety disorder? Excessive health related behaviors such as checking vital signs preoccupation with acquiring a serious illness high levels of anxiety about health excessive concern about the health of family members
Excessive concern about the health of family members
A person who deliberately fakes an illness to gain medical attention and play the "sick role" may be diagnosed with a
Factitious disorder
Individuals with __________ fake symptoms or disorders as part of their need to maintain a sick role
Factitious disorder
Dissociative fugue involves
Failure to recall important personal information and/or past events
Examples of depolarization/derealization symptoms include all of the following except -having a distorted sense of time -feeling in a dream like state -feeling excessively hyper active -Feeling detached from one's body
Feeling excessively hyper active
The amnesia associated with dissociative fugue usually lasts
Hours to days
The most common procedure in which multiple personalities are elicited by psychotherapist is
Hypnosis
A person who chronically worried about illness without actually experiencing physical symptoms may be diagnosed with
Illness anxiety disorder
Ataque de nervios
Involves periods of loss consciousness
What is a primary challenge in diagnosing and somatic symptom disorder?
It's possible that the symptoms are caused by an actual physical illness
Some people seem unconcerned about the neurological symptoms displayed in conversion disorder. What is this called?
La belle indifference
Conversion disorder involves
Loss of neurologic functioning and some part of the body for physiological rather than physical reasons
What is a person demonstrating if he fakes physical symptoms to avoid an unwanted situation, such as taking a test?
Malingering
Which of the following is not part of the diagnostic features of illness anxiety disorder?
Medical syptoms that cannot be explained
Disassociative identity disorder was previously termed
Multiple personality disorder
Which type of amnesia is associated with brain injury
Organic amnesia
Which alter engages in self mutilating behaviors?
Persecutor personality
Treating somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety from a psychodynamic perspective may entail
Providing insight into the connections between emotions and physical symptoms
The ___________ Disorders are a group of disorders in which people experience significant physical symptoms for which there is no apparent organic cause
Somatic symptom
A group of conditions in which an individual's major symptoms involve physical problems for which there is no parent organic cause is known as
Somatic symptom disorder
Which of the following is considered to be the most dangerous alter found in dissociative identity disorder? The child The helper The host The persecutor
The persecutor
Most of the controversy surrounding diagnosing dissociative disorder centers on
The recollection of repressed memories
Conversion disorder symptoms are often precipitated by some form of
Trauma
True/false: the amnesia associated with dissociated fugue is reversible
True
Unlike a person with dissociative identity disorder, a person and in a fugue state:
Will behave quiet normally in a new environment