Somatic Disorders
This disorder is characterized by a person misinterpreting normal body sensations as sign of a serious illness.
What is illness anxiety disorder?
A person with a BMI of less than 17 or less is considered to meet criteria for this disorder.
What is anorexia nervosa?
Moderate cannabis use disorder requires the presence of at least this many symptoms.
What are 4 symptoms?
This scale helps clinicians understand to what degree a client's substance use is contributing to impairment.
What is the severity scale?
This disorder involves a lot of checking and preoccupation with physical appearance.
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
This disorder is characterized by transferring psychological distress into a neurological disorder that impacts bodily function (e.g., blindness, paralysis).
What is conversion disorder?
This diagnosis has a restricting type and a binge/purge type.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This definition explains the need to take more of a substance to achieve the same high or the noticing of a markedly diminished effect with traditional doses.
What is tolerance?
This is a specifier when criteria for a SUD was previously met, but now not met for more than 3 months but less than 12 months.
What is partial remission?
This is a primary difference between malingering and factitious disorder.
What are real symptoms?
This somatic disorder involves falsifying symptoms for financial gain.
What is malingering?
These other methods are often used instead of purging to get rid of food quickly in those with Anorexia/Bulimia?
What are laxatives?
This occurs when someone has to ingest a substance to manage uncomfortable symptoms associated with the lack of the substance in their system.
What is withdrawal?
This specifier is used when someone meets criteria for a SUD but we want to contextualize their access to substances.
What is a controlled enviornment?
This is the primary difference between somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder.
What are actual physical symptoms?
A client complains of chest pains and headaches but the cardiologist and neurologist found no evidence of medical problems. These are likely symptoms of this diagnosis.
What is somatic symptom disorder?
A client who binges/purges but has a BMI over 18 would qualify for this diagnosis.
What is bulemia nervosa?
To qualify for a severe substance use disorder diagnosis, you must have at least this many symptoms.
What are six symptoms?
This specifier in a SUD means that criteria was previously met for diagnosis but have not been met for more than 12 months.
What is sustained remission?
When someone with cannabis use disorder reports that their use helps reduce restlessness, mental frustration, and jitteriness while improving attention, this diagnosis should also be explored.
What is ADHD?
This early childhood experience is often co-occurring with those who have somatic symptom disorders.
What is childhood abuse?
These are secondary risks to chronic binge/purge behavior in Bulimia and Anorexia.
What is esophageal rupture and/or dental degeneration?
This substance can be ingested to prevent alcohol use in those at high risk of relapse.
This is the minimum frequency of binge/purge behavior to qualify for a Bulimia Nervosa diagnosis.
What is once per week for three months?
This is one overlapping neurobiological mechanism implicated in both substance use disorders and binge eating disorder.
What is dysregulation in dopamine reward system?