Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Conversion disorder
Perspective
Dissociative amnesia and Fugue
Dissociative Identity Disoder
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What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
consists of extreme distress over physical appearance
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What is conversion disorder
there is actual disability but no neurological pathology that would explain the disability
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What is behavioral and sociocultural perspective on Somatoform disorder?
they have learn to adopt the sick role
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What is organic amnesia
is a result of head-trauma or neurological damage
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What was this formerly known as?
multiple personality disorder
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what do they complain about the most?
facical flaws and thinning hair
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What is the most common symptoms?
blindness, deafness, loss of movement, or loss of sensation
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What is the cognitive perspective on dissociative disorder?
it can be seen as an disorder of memory
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What is dissociative amnesia
amnesia as a result of severe psychological stress
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What is the host?
the individuall prior to developing DID
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What is this disorder associated with?
social phobia and depression
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What are the two gains?
1. primary gain, 2. secondary gain
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what perspective contributed to the most to Somatoform disorder
Psychodynamic
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What is selective amnesia
only certain evets within a certain time-span are blocked out
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What is the alter?
identities outside of the host identity
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How does it start?
it usually starts with an negative comment
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how to diagnosis someone with conversion disorder
1. malingaring must be ruled out 2. ruling out neurological disoder
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What is the treatment for Somatoform Disorder from behavioral perspective?
1. withdrawals reinforcement for illness behavior 2. build up patient's coping skills
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What is continuous amnesia
all events that occur after a specific time are blocked out
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What is depersonaliztion disorder
a disruption of personal identity
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what kinda medical setting are they mostly likely to visit?
dermatology, cosmetic surgery
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what is La belle indifference?
is when the patients do not show fear in their condition, however they are want to tell you everything that is wrong with them
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What apart of the brain might be the cause of Somatoform Disorder?
cerebral cortex, seems to be suppressed
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What is systematized amnesia
only certain categories of information are forgotten
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What is depersonalization
a sense of strangeness or unreality in oneslef
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