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Characteristics
100
A pathological concern in which there is an absence of any identifiable medical condition.
What is somatoform?
100
Primary symptom of hypochondriasis.
What is the fear of currently having a disease?
100
Little is known for this treatment.
What is Dissociative Trance Disorder?
100
The average number of alter personalities as recorded by clinicians.
What is 15.
100
Hypochondriasis (name 2)
What is severe anxiety over medically undetecable problems, affects men and women equally, may emerge at any age, evident in diverse cultures?
200
A disease process without evidence of a physcial cause.
What is hypochondriasis?
200
Derealization describes the experience of losing a sense of your own reality whereas depersonalization describes losing your sense of reality of the external world. (True or False)
What is False?
200
Hard to treat.
What is somatization disorder?
200
The percentage of patients diagnosed with hypochondriasis.
What is between 1% and 14%?
200
DID Characteristics (name at least 2)
What is 15 average alters, affected person adopts new identities, childhood onset, affects, women more than men, pt's often suffer from other pysch. disorders at the same time, and is rare outside of Western culutres?
300
Feeling detached.
What is dissociative disorder?
300
The different identities or personalities in dissociative identity disorder are called alters, whereas the cahnge from one personality to another is called switch. (True or False)
What is True?
300
The same as somatization disorder with emphasis on resolving life stress.
What is Conversion Disorder?
300
The ratio between woman and men of somatoization disorder (when severe enough to be diagnosed).
What is 2:1?
300
Characteristics of Dissociative Trance Disorder (name 3)
What is sudden personality change (trance), causes significant distress/impairment, often associated with trauma, worldwide prevalence (usually religious), more common in women than men?
400
Motive: faking for gain
What is malingering?
400
A parent/guardian making their child ill.
What is Munchausen syndrome by proxy?
400
Therapy focusing on retreiving lost information.
What is dissociative amnesia or dissociative fugue?
400
Disorder found primarily in women (to include comorbid anxiety and mood disorders).
What is conversion disorder?
400
Conversion Disorder (who is more prevelant?)
What is low socioeconomic groups, women, and men under extreme stress (soldiers)
500
The feeling of being outside observers.
What is depersonalization?
500
A famous individiual who fell victim to BDD.
What is Michael Jackson?
500
Psychological treatments similar to those for panic disorders may be helpful.
What is Depersonalization Disorder?
500
The percentage of college students dissatisfied with thier bodies.
What is as many as 70%
500
Dissociateive Fugue (name 4 characteristics)
What is memory loss accompanies unplanned journey, person sometimes assumes a new identity or becomes confused about old identity, usually associated with an intolerable situation, fugue states usually end abruptly, typically adult onset?