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| 1. False pregnancy, woman believes she is pregnant but not. |
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| 1. Medical disorders in which people have acute physical illness that is worsened by psych factors. |
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| ople fake a symptom or disorder to avoid unwanted situations |
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| iii. Factitious disorders |
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| 1. Person deliberately fakes illness to gain medical attention. |
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| iv. Factitious disorder by proxy |
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| 1. Parents faked or created illnesses in their children in order to gain attention. |
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a. Loss of functioning to part of body due to neurological or medical reason.
b. Brought on by extreme psych stressor |
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| 2. La belle indifference` |
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| a. People appear unconcerned about loss of functioning they experience. |
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a. Glove anesthesia
b. Behavior believe individuals create idea |
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| 4. Distinguishing Conversion from Physical disorders |
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a. No physical cause, but many people actually did suffer but medical tests did not catch it
b. Most common mishap was with head injuries
c. Paralysis waist down may not show detioration in musclles that actual paralyzed people have. |
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| Conversion treatments psychoanalytic |
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| a. Psychoanalytic focuses on expression of painful emotionand memories between these and conversion symptoms. |
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| Behaviorist conversion treatment |
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c. Behaviorists relieve personal anxiety around initial trauma that caused conversion.
i. Also reduce benefits from symptoms. |
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| i. Long history of complaints about physical symptoms affecting many different areas of the body. |
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1. Pain symptoms in at least 4 areas of body
2. At least 2 gastronintestinal symptoms other than pain.
3. At least one sexual symptom
4. At least one neurological symptom
5. Goes from doctor to doctor looking for proof.
6. Very dramatic, exaggerate complaints
7. Anxiety and depression results sometimes |
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| 1. People who complain only of chronic pain |
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| Theories of somatization disorder |
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1. Run in family,especially with female relatives but not necessarily genetics.
2. Cognitive theory, people with psych problems tend to experiences bodily sensations more than others, think more about these things.
3. PTSD may cause somatization disorders |
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| Treatments for somatization disorder |
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1. Don’t respond well to treatment
2. Behavior tries to determine reinforcements of symptoms
3. Cognitive help people interpret and decatastrophize physical symptoms
4. Antidepressants led to improvement in some symptoms |
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1. People worry they have serious disease but don’t always experience severe physical symptoms
2. Go doctor to doctor, often focus on specific organ
3. Sometimes depression and anxiety |
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| Theories of hypochondriasis |
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| 1. Thinking dysfunctional beliefs about illness, thinking serious illnesses are common |
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| Hypochondriasis treatment |
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| 1. Help them understand association between symptoms and emotional distress. |
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| Body dysmorphic disorder symptoms |
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1. Obsessively preoccupied with defective parts of their body they believe is defective
2. Spend hours looking at deformed body parts and go to extreme measures to fix.
3. Some believe perceptions out of touch with reality
4. Begins in teenage years, can be chronic if untreated |
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| Body dysmorphic disorder therapy |
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1. Focuses on helping clients into real reasons behind obsession
2. Cognitive expose clients to feared situations about body part, practice relaxation techniques. |
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| i. Concisous plans and desires and voulentary actions |
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| i. Observes and restores in memory without conscious |
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1. People have more than one distinct personality
2. Varying claims of amnesia
3. Self destructive behavior |
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1. 1 percent, more adult women
2. Males more aggressive with disorder |
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1. Result of coping strategies to trauma/physical or sexual abuse.
a. Pretend abuse is happening to someone eles
b. May use self hypnosis to excape other traumas |
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1. Integration of all personalities into one
2. Identify each alters role and help confront roles and traumas
3. Antidepressants anti anxiety drugs successful treatments for children |
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| Dissacoiatve fugue symptoms |
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1. Person will simply get up, move to new place and assume new identity
2. Does not remember past
3. May return home and not remember fugue and may last for days or years
4. Response to chronic stress, common amongst people with amnesia or head injuries |
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| Dissacoiative fugue treatment |
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| 1. Psychotherapy to identify stressors leading to event |
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| Dissocaitive amnesia symptoms |
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| 1. Loss of memory due to psychological reasons, usually forgets personal info only. |
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| Dissacociative amnesia etiology |
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| 1. Usually occurs during traumatic events. |
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| Dissacociative amnesia treatment |
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| 1. Help indidual remember traumatic events and accept them. |
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| Depersonalization disorder |
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| i. Feel detached from mental processes or bodies |
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| Controversies around Dissacociative disorders |
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i. Small number believe that valid diagnosis
ii. Can influence beliefs of client, convince them they have this |
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