Somatic Symptoms
What term means "body" and is part of the name of these disorders?
What is soma?
This disorder involves severe anxiety about having or acquiring a serious illness.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
Conversion disorder involves sensory or motor impairment without what?
What is a known neurological cause?
Dissociative disorders can affect identity, memory, and this third major aspect of functioning.
What is consciousness?
Dissociative amnesia involves an inability to recall what type of information?
What is autobiographical information?
In somatic symptom disorders, psychological problems take what form?
What is a physiological form?
In Illness Anxiety Disorder, actual physical symptoms are typically what?
What are very mild or absent?
Loss of sensation is known as what?
What is anesthesia?
This type of dissociation involves distortion in the perception of one's own body or experience.
What is depersonalization?
Dissociative fugue can be described as amnesia plus what?
What is flight?
In Somatic Symptom Disorder, symptoms are accompanied by excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to the symptoms. Name one example.
What are disproportionate thoughts about the seriousness of symptoms, health-related anxiety, or excessive time and energy devoted to symptoms and health?
A person repeatedly seeks medical reassurance, but the reassurance doesn't seem to reduce their fear of having a serious disease. What disorder does this suggest?
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
Loss of smell is known as what?
What is anosmia?
This type of dissociation involves losing a sense of the external world.
What is derealization?
During a dissociative fugue, a person may travel or wander and sometimes do what?
What is assuming a new identity?
True or False: People with somatic symptom disorders intentionally produce their physical symptoms.
What is False?
Illness Anxiety Disorder affects approximately what percentage of the general population according to the slides?
What is 1–7%?
What disorder involves purposely faking or inducing physical symptoms without an obvious external gain?
What is Factitious Disorder?
A person repeatedly feels as though their body and surroundings are unreal, and the experience significantly interferes with their life. What disorder could this represent?
What is Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder?
According to the slides, Dissociative Identity Disorder involves two or more distinct what?
What are personality states?
A person has distressing bodily symptoms and spends excessive amounts of time worrying about their health and the seriousness of those symptoms. What disorder best fits this description?
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
Name two treatment approaches that may be used for illness anxiety or somatic symptom disorders.
What are CBT and antidepressants?
A person fakes physical symptoms because they want paid time off from work. Is this factitious disorder or malingering?
What is malingering?
According to the slides, Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder affects approximately what percentage of the population?
What is 1–3%?
In DID, what is the term for the identity that keeps the other identities together?
What is the host?