Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions
Factitious disorder & malingering
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Duration requirement?
What is 6 months
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The main criteria
What is a preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness?
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Duration is part of the specifiers...
What is acute episode: less than 6 months, persistent: greater than 6 months.
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What must be present?
What is a medical symptom or condition.
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The essential feature of factitious disorder is faking physical or psychological symptoms not for gain but for ________.
What is attention.
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How can symptoms vary in the 6 month requirement?
What is changing from bodily area (e.g. neck -> leg -> back etc.)
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Somatic symptoms are...
What is nonexistent or mild in intensity.
200
DSM stresses what implausibility
What is medical implausibility (symptoms cannot be explained any other way.)
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For the extreme specifier what is a major concern (provide an example)
What is severe, life-threatening risk (e.g. ignoring cardiac symptoms resulting in cardiac mortality).
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What are the two variants?
What is self imposed and imposed on another.
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First main criteria
What is 1+ somatic symptom that is distressing with disruption of daily life.
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Criteria pertain to high levels of...
What is anxiety about health/health status and excessive health-related behaviors.
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Specifiers of symptom type (list 4 of 8).
What is weakness or paralysis, abnormal movement, swallow symptoms, speech symptoms, attacks or seizures, special sensory symptoms, or mixed symptoms.
300
How do the factors influence chance of suffering, death, or disability?
What is impacting course of treatment, adding additional health risk, and impacting underlying pathophysiology (asthma & anxiety).
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Malingering is different from factitious disorder in that feigning is done for _____________.
What is a clearly identifiable goal.
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Excessive thoughts are manifested in these three ways
What is disproportionate and persistent thoughts about seriousness of symptoms, persistently high levels of anxiety about health/symptoms, and excessive time and energy devoted to health concerns/symptoms.
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With differential diagnosis pay attention to disorder of the same kind like...
What is anxiety disorders and depression disorders (disorders pertaining to worry).
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Specifier with stressor
What is psychological stressor or without psychological stressor.
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Diagnosis is reserved for those with __________ significant effects on outcome.
What is clinically
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In cases of imposing the illness on another, who receives the diagnosis?
What is the perpetrator.
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What are the specifiers?
What is with predominant pain, persistent if longer than 6 months, and mild (1 excessive thought/behavior), moderate (2+ excessive thought/behavior), severe (2+ excessive thought/behavior + many somatic complains).
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What are the specifiers?
What is care-seeking and care-avoidance.
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In making what should you consider the difference between these symptoms and components of somatic symptom, body dysmorphic, depressive, and panic disorder.
What is the differential diagnosis?
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If the symptoms are in response to another medical condition the diagnosis is ______?