Exam 6: Dissociative Disorders, Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders, and Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Health

Explain what culture-bound syndromes are and describe the features of Koro and Dhat syndromes.

Unlike other forms of dissociative disorders that seem to protect the self from anxiety, depersonalization ? and derealization can lead to ________________________.

The DSM-5 introduced a new diagnostic category that includes a subgroup of people with hypochondriasis who complain of relatively minor or mild symptoms that they take to be signs of a serious undiagnosed illness. This diagnostic category is known as which of the following?

A culture-bound disorder in which people have episodes of unusual behavior ranging from shouting to banging their heads against a wall is known as ______.

Dissociative fugue has been most likely to occur as a result of ______.

Physical or sexual abuse of a child by a relative or _______ is most frequently involved in the development of dissociative disorders.

The incidence of deaths from heart disease has stayed approximately the same in this country for the past 50 years.

While in a dissociative fugue, the person may appear ____________signs of mental disturbance.

The DSM-5 breaks tradition with the historic earliest editions of the DSM by ________the other classical categories of neuroses-the dissociative and somatic symptom and related disorders.

A form of dissociative amnesia in which the person forgets everything that occurred from a particular point in time up to and including the present is ______ amnesia.

Research conducted by Brefczynski-Lewis et al., ( 2007) has lead scientists to speculate that regular practice of meditation may alter brain functioning in ways that may be therapeutic to children with ________________.

Münchausen syndrome by proxy can be viewed as a form of ______.

Clenching teeth can be a part of the progressive muscular relaxation technique.

Which of the following is a diagnostic feature of conversion disorder?

Fugue states commonly last for months or even years.

It has been found that the ______ bacterium is cause of the majority of peptic ulcers.

People with hypochondriasis are consciously faking their symptoms.

Which of the following is true of people with depersonalization?

Koro syndrome is found primarily among ______.

Many practitioners continue to use the broad conceptualization of _________as a useful framework for grouping together anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, and somatic symptom and related disorders.