Exam 6: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders

According to Ross (1997)and others,what is the average number of alter personalities (i.e.,in addition to the original personality)in individuals with dissociative identity disorder?

If left untreated,what course does dissociative identity disorder usually take across the life span?

What is the average length of time between an individual's first symptoms of dissociative identity disorder and the identification and diagnosis of the disorder by a professional?

A person who is blind but has no underlying cause for their blindness may be suffering from which of the following?

What is the fundamental goal of treatment for dissociative identity disorder?

Susan has a sick daughter who has been in and out of hospital four times in the last six months,but no cause for her illnesses can be found.At first,the doctors suspect that Susan may have Munchausen syndrome by proxy,however,Susan exhibits a behaviour that contradicts that diagnosis.What is that behaviour?

In many areas of the world,what are dissociative symptoms,such as sudden changes in personality,attributed to?

Somatic symptom disorder and antisocial personality disorder share several features; for example,they are both associated with lower socioeconomic status.What other feature is common to both disorders?

During a dissociative fugue state,which of the following is it NOT uncommon for individuals to do?

Which of the following individuals possesses the most characteristics associated with somatic symptom disorder?

Illness anxiety disorder is essentially an emotional disturbance.What triggers it?

Darren was in a fugue state for six months.What did he likely do in that six months?

When is a dissociative trance disorder diagnosed?

You hear two colleagues talking,and one of them states that a friend has just been diagnosed with illness anxiety disorder.What is your colleague's friend's age and gender most likely to be?

In their study of individuals suffering from depersonalization,what did Charbonneau and O'Connor (1999)find in the majority of cases?

On the basis of research into and debate about the issue of recovered memories,what official position has the Canadian Psychiatric Association taken?

Andrew tells Paul that he has been diagnosed with globus hystericus? What symptom did Andrew most likely complain about to his doctor?

Jenna,a recently married young woman,described episodes of "spacing out." During these episodes,she feels as if she is observing herself from outside of her body.Her experiences seem "dream-like," and she reports feeling completely separated from what is going on around her.What diagnosis best fits Jenna's symptoms?

When interviewing 129 women with documented histories of childhood sexual abuse,what did Williams (1994)find?

What research evidence contradicted Freud's explanation of the cause of conversion disorder?