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

According to the learning perspective, the symptoms of conversion and other somatic symptom and related disorders may be due to ______.

Sean has a headache. It developed gradually throughout the day. He feels like a tight steel band is wrapped around his forehead resulting in a dull steady pain on both sides of his head. His headache is best most likely a ______ headache.

HIV can be transmitted through oral-genital contact.

Distinguish the dissociative and somatic symptom and related disorders from the anxiety disorders in terms of the theorized role of anxiety.

Which of the following is true of people with koro syndrome?

The illness anxiety disorder (IAD ) subtype that applies to people who postpone or avoid medical visits or lab tests because they fear what might be discovered is which of the following?

Explain what asthma is, and discuss its causes, prevalence, and treatments.

Explain why AIDS should be included in a discussion of significant psychological factors in physical illness, and how psychological interventions can be useful to people with HIV/AIDS.

Discuss the strengths and weakness of psychodynamic, behavioral, and cognitive methods for treating the somatic symptom and related disorders.

According to psychodynamic theory, dissociative disorders involve the massive use of ______.

Koro syndrome tends to be ______.

Juan has consistently experienced tightness in his chest and aches throughout his body for the last few years. Although medical tests have come back negative, he is chronically worried that these are symptoms of a serious illness. Juan most likely can be diagnosed as having which of the following according to the DSM-5?

A person who feels as if he or she were living in a dream world or acting like a robot most likely suffers from ______.

The progressive relaxation technique heightens awareness of ______.

______________is describes as an inability to recall important personal material that cannot be accounted ? for by medical causes.

Compare and contrast the different types of headaches, their causes, effects, and types of treatments for them.

Compared to other psychiatric patients, people who develop hypochondriasis are _____ likely to have reported being sick as children and are _____ likely to have experienced childhood Trauma.

The inability to recall important personal information that cannot be accounted for by medical causes or simple forgetting is known as ______.

The psychological disorder most closely linked to a history of child abuse is ______.

Which of the following statements is true of migraines?