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| Psychological Conflicts turned into physical complaints. |
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| Involuntary loss of functioning due to an unacceptable psychological drive that causes the individual to feel distressed or feel impaired. |
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| Freuds version of Conversion Disorders. Implied a physical reaction to anxiety. |
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| The individuals lack of concern for their conversion disorder. |
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| Expression of psychological issues through bodily problems that can't be explained. |
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| The difference between Conversion Disorders and Somatization Disorders |
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| A conversion disorder is one incident, if you have a somatization disorder you are affected all the time |
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| A form of pain is the individual's primary complaint. They are not faking this pain. |
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| A delusional preoccupation with a part of one's body |
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Extreme misinterpretations about normal sensations and excessive fear of physical illness.
The woman who dated gay men because of her fear of endometriosis and concern for her lack of ability to have children. |
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| Faking an illness for Primary Gain |
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| Individuals fake sickness because they like the attention they get. |
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| Dedicating ones life to faking illness for attention. |
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| Getting someone else sick for the attention |
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| Faking sick to avoid work |
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| Faking sick to get attention |
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| How Somatoform Disorders are explained |
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| Treating somatoform disorders |
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| Explore the person's need to play the sick role and providing them with cognitive-behavioral techniques to control their symptoms |
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| Psychological Factors affecting medical conditions |
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| Situations in which psychological or behavioral factors have an averse effect on medical condition. |
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| Who is diagnosed with Psychological factors affecting medical conditions |
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| The diagnosis is given to clients who sufer from a recognized medical condition that is adversely affected by emotional factore that influence the course of the medical conditon, interfere with treatment, or creat additional health risks or aggravate symptoms. |
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| The unpleasant emotion reaction a person has when he or she perceives an event to be threatening. |
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| The stressful event itself |
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| Making an effort to reduce stress |
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| Fixing the cause of the stress. Older people tend to do this more. |
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| Changing how feel feel about something that is causing stress. Younger people tend to do this more often. |
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| An emotion focus strategy to cope in which the individual refuses to acknowledge that a problem or difficulty exists. |
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| The study of the connections among stress, nervous system functioning, and the immune system. |
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| Confronting emotions is beneficial, and keeping them in is harmful |
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| Type A and Type B personailities. People with Type A personalities are more likely to be affected my stress and have heart problems. |
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| Situations caused by anxiety so severe that part of the individual's personality separates from conscious functioning. Very extreme. |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| The assumption is that a person develops more than one self or personality. |
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| The extra personailty developed by someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder. |
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| Characteristics of Dissociative Disorders |
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| -At least 2 distinct identities or personality states, each with its own pattern of perceiving, thinking, and relating, as well as its own style of behavior, personal history, and self-image. |
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| It comes from disturbances in childhood as well as repressed memories. Ways to treat it is hypnotherapy, the sociocognitive model of dissociative personaily disorder, and cognitive behavioral techniques. |
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| Controversial whether or not it works or exacerbates symptoms. The client is hypnotized and encouraged to recall painful past experiences while in a trance state. |
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| Sociocognitive model of dissociative identity disorder |
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| According to this model, clients enact the roles they feel (consciously or unconsciously) by the situation. |
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| The individual is unable to remember important personal details and experiences usually associated with traumatic or very stressful events. |
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| A condition in which a person who is confused about personal identity suddenly and unexpectedly travels to another place. |
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| An innate, almost biologically based alarm response to a dangerous or life-threatening situation. |
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| More future-oriented and global, referring to the state in which an individual is inordinately apprehensive, tense, and uneasy about the prospect of something terrible happening. |
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| People with panic disorder experience panic attacks, periods of intense fear and physical discomfort, in which they feel so over-whelmed and terrified by a range of bodily sensations that causes them to feel like they are losing control. |
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| A panic attack that appears out of the blue |
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| A panic attack in anticipation of confronting a particular situation or immediately following exposure to a specific stimulus or cue in the environment. |
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| When is the diagnosis of Panic Disorder made? |
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| When panic attacks occur on a recurrent basis or when a month has elapsed since the first panic attack but the individual has continued to feel apprehensive and worried about the possibility of recurring attacks. |
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| Intense anxiety about being trapped, stranded, or embarrassed in a situation without help if a panic attack were to occur. |
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| Anxiety Sensitivity Theory |
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| People with panic disorder tend to interpret cognitive and somatic manifestations of stress and anxiety in a catastrophic manner. They are thought to have a hypersensitive "suffocation" mechanism so that they feel as though they cannot breath, even though others would feel nothing unusual in that situation. |
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| Conditioned Fear Reactions |
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| The individual associates certain bodily sensations with memories of the last panic attack, causing a full-blown panic attack to develop even before measurable biological changes have occurred. |
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| The client learns to systematically alternate tensing and relaxing muscles all over the body usually starting at the forehead and working downward to the feet. |
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| Responses of discomfort and dislike |
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| Characteristics of Phobias |
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| -When individuals confront the object of their fear, or anticipate that they will, they become intensely anxious. |
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-Primary explanations are biological and psychological.
-Humans are programmed to fear certain situations or stimuli that could threaten out survival.
-Animals and Humans can acquire phobic behavior through conditioning, phobias result from maladaptive learning.
-Phobic individuals have highly active alarm systems |
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| Behavioral Therapy is highly effective because symptoms are relatively easy to identify and the stimuli are limited to specific situations or objects. |
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| The client is totally immersed in the sensation of anxiety, rather than being more gradually acclimated to the feared situation |
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| The situation the individual fears is described to them |
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| Clients initially confront situations that cause only minor anxiety and then gradually progress toward those that cause greater anxiety. |
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| The individual learns to stop anxiety provoking thoughts. |
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| People with social phobia feel tremendous anxiety in all situations in which others might be observing them. |
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| Characteristics of Social Phobia |
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-The primary characteristic of social phobia is an irrational and intense fear that one's behavior in a public situation will be mocked or criticized by others.
-They tend to have low self esteem |
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| Theories about Social Phobia |
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-Risk factors in childhood
-Genetic contributions
-Biological theories
-Maladaptive thinking |
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-Biological and Psychological Perspective
-Humans are programmed to fear certain situations
-Humand can be conditioned to acquire phobic behavior through conditioning, which led o the conclustion that phobias resulted from maladaptive learning.
-Overactive alarm system |
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-Behavioral therapy is highly effective because symptoms are relatively easy to identify and the stimuli are limited to specific situations or objects
-Imaginal Flooding
-Thought Stopping
-Graduated Exposure |
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| Individuals feel tremendous anxiety in virtually all situations in which others might be observing them. |
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| Characteristics of Social Phobia |
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-Irrational and intense fear that one's behavior in a public situation will be mocked or criticized by others.
-People with social phobia have low self esteem and are perfectionists. |
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| Theories of Social Phobia |
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-Risk factores in childhood
-Abnormalities in neurotransmitters such as seratonin
-People with this disorder are unable to take the step of shifting their attention away from anticipated criticism and onto their performance. |
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| Treatment of Social Phobias |
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-Help them learn more appropriate responses to the situations they fear.
-Cognitive restructuring
-Teach them methods for coping with interpersonal stress |
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| Characteristics of Generalized Anxiety DIsorder |
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-Efforts to control worry are unsuccessful
-Bodily reactions, thoughts, feelings, and associations with anxiety disorder often have no direct connection with a discernable issue in the person's life.
-Prevalent in older adults |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| Anxiety that is not associated with a particular object, situation, or event but seems to be a constant feature of a person's day to day existence |
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-Biological Perspective: People with this disorder have biological abnormalities in transmitters.
-Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective: Generalized anxiety is seen as resulting from cognitive distortions
-Socio-Cultural Factors: Life stresses can significantly increase the basis for a person's tendency to experience chronic anxiety. |
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| A persistent and intrusive idea, thought, impulse, or image. |
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-Recognize the face that their cognitions are disturbed.
-Obsessions and compulsions greatly interfere with ones life |
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| A repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior performed in response to uncontrollable urges or according to a ritualistic or stereotyped set of rules. |
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| Involves recurrent obsessions and compulsions that interfere significantly with an individual's daily life. |
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-Genetic Disorder reflecting abnormalities in the basal ganglia.
-The brain is working overtime on thoughts they can't inhibit
-The symptoms of OCD become established through a process of conditioning in which their behaviors become associated with the momentary relief of anxiety. |
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-The ost promising interventions for people with OCD are rooted in biological and psychological approaches, whenich are commonly comnine in an integrative treatment
-Psychological interventions
-Thought stopping is recommended to help some clientes reduce obsessional thinking.
-Exposure to the feared obsessions and prevention of the rituals that accompany them |
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| A disastrous or an extremely painful event that has severe psychological and physiological effects. |
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| The individual develops intense fear, helplessness, or horror. These individuals continue to reexperience the event in images, thoguths, dreamds, and flashback episodes. |
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| When the symptoms of Acute Distress Disorder last over a month |
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| -People seem to "shut down" |
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| Individuals system is in fight or flight |
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-Biological abnormalities
-Life experiences
-People with first degree relatives with a history of depression have an increased vulnerability.
-Acquired a Conditioned Fear
-Peoples beliefs about a traumatic event influence how they cope with it.
-The severity of the trauma
-Stigma of seeking mental health services.
-High scrime urban neighborhodds increases the likelihood of exposure to trauma |
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-Meds
-Psychotherapy
-"Covering" technique: Support groups, stress management.
-"Uncovering" techniques: Reliving the trauma with imaginal flooding and systematic desensitization. |
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