Specific Disorder Name
Symptoms include Weakness, Paralysis, and Abnormal gait or other movements
What is Conversion Disorder?
Treatment for this disorder involved exposure and response prevention
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Psychodynamic or psychological etiology theories suggest a patients' somatic symptoms present as a response against unconscious emotional issues
What are somatic symptom disorders?
This can be a subtype of OCD or a disorder on its own
What is hoarding?
Oftentimes this eating restriction corresponds with an altered perception of self and an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat
What is Anorexia?
Plastic surgery is NOT a successful treatment option for this disorder
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
In the biological etiology category, the earlier onset of this disorder correlates with more first-degree relatives diagnosed with it
What is OCD?
If a client is not underweight, they won't qualify for this disorder
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Tolerance to a drug often comes with other physical and psychological symptoms which cause significant disturbances in an individual’s life
What is Substance Abuse Disorder?
Patients with somatic symptom and related disorders benefit from this kind of treatment approach
What is Multidisciplinary treatment?
In the cognitive etiology theory, expectancy effects may contribute to continuation of this disorder
What is Substance Abuse Disorder?
If a client does not actually present with any symptoms, they may have this disorder instead of somatic symptom disorder
What is illness anxiety disorder?
Excessive preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious medical illness but the patient does not typically present with any somatic symptoms
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
Family can be involved in treatment of this disorder, and can take charge of managing a young client's behaviors at home
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
One type of sociocultural factor, personality, suggests that low self-esteem increases the risk for over-evaluation of the body, which can lead to changes in eating behaviors in these disorders
What are Eating Disorders?
If a client does NOT engage in compensatory behaviors after eating inappropriate amounts of food, they may have this disorder rather than bulimia
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
Includes repetitive behaviors or mental acts that an individual performs in order to alleviate the anxiety caused by an obsession (e.g., checking, counting, hand-washing, symmetry, repeating specific words)
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
Self help groups are a popular treatment for this disorder
What is Substance Abuse Disorder?
This disorder may be conceptualized as a variant of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) because of the associated obsession with body shape and weight
What is Anorexia?
If a client feels obsessive about fixing a flaw with their physical self, they may have this disorder instead of OCD
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?