Physical injury
Suffering that may be produced by physical factors, such as tissue damage, or psychological factors, such as personality, expectations, age, or sociocultural background.
What is pain?
A syndrome or pattern of behavior that is a manifestation of some psychological dysfunction.
What is a mental disorder?
A pervasive and sustained emotion that in the extreme can affect a person’s perception of reality.
What is a mood?
A behavior characterized by feigning symptoms.
What is malingering?
These include alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, opium, phencyclidine (PCP), and barbiturates.
What are psychoactive substances?
The psychological diagnosis characterized by sadness or grief. Severe symptoms include the loss of pleasure and interest in life and feelings of complete hopelessness.
What is Depression?
An anxiety disorder characterized by a person’s persistent reexperiences of an unusual event, persistent avoidance of anything associated with the event, or persistent symptoms of arousal.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder?
A mental condition characterized by symptoms of anxiety or behaviors that are performed to relieve anxiety, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, panic disorders, phobias, obsessions, compulsions, and generalized anxiety disorder.
What is an anxiety disorder?
A physical condition characterized by symptoms that result from an unconscious psychological need to be sick.
What is a factitious disorder?
A clinical evaluation alone is not nearly as reliable as an evaluation supplemented by these.
What are psychological tests?
A defense mechanism in which a person separates thoughts about an event or situation from his or her feelings.
What is isolation?
A somatoform disorder that impairs a patient’s social and occupational functioning and that becomes the major focus of the patient’s life.
What is a pain disorder?
A disorder characterized by perfectionism and inflexibility; the person is preoccupied by details and procedures and rigidly expects things to be done his or her way.
What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
The three most common types of psychological tests are intelligence, personality, and ___________.
What is neuropsychological?
The term describing the use of medication to treat psychological illness.
What is psychopharmacology?
A defense mechanism in which a person directs emotionally significant feelings away from their real source or object and toward some other object.
What is displacement?
A somatoform disorder characterized by the fear of, or belief that one has, a serious illness, despite an absence of physical evidence.
What is hypochondriasis?
A mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms when no medical condition is present.
What is a somatoform disorder?
The deceased claimant in a death claim.
Who is a decedent?
These are two popular projective tests of personality.
What are the Rorschach Inkblot Test and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
Psychological factors involved in a patient’s symptoms that are interwoven with the patient’s physical condition.
What is functional overlay?
A disorder characterized by a pattern of socially irresponsible, truant, cruel, and often deviant behavior.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
A disorder characterized by simultaneous feelings of grandiosity and hyper-sensitivity, along with a lack of empathy.
What is a narcissistic personality disorder?
These are the two categories that death claims fall into.
What are survival actions and wrongful death actions?
This is required when a patient is out of touch with reality or cannot control his or her behavior to the extent of presenting a danger to himself or herself or others.
What is hospitalization?