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