Exam 9: Dissociative and Somatic Symptom Disorders

Research has consistently shown that which of the following is always associated with better health?

Assuming that people with dissociative disorders are reacting to trauma with dissociative symptoms, the treatment goal becomes primarily to integrate the disparate parts within the person's consciousness of self, memory, and time.

Immanuel is having tremendous difficulty controlling his drinking behavior even at a time when he is recovering from a liver transplant surgery. Drinking alcohol at this stage of the recovery process is not only detrimental to his health but can also lead to serious medical complications. Which of the following would best describe Immanuel's condition?

_____ is defined as worry about physical symptoms and illness.

Which of the following refer to situations in which a client's physical illness is adversely affected by one or more psychological states?

The College Undergraduate Stress Scale (CUSS) is a good example of a stressful life events scale.

Which of the following physical ailments is/are characteristic of conversion disorder?

Match the term to the appropriate description or definition. -Factitious disorder

According to researchers who used the College Undergraduate Stress Scale, which of the following is the most stressful event a college student could experience?

Early psychoanalysts used the term ________ to describe what current clinicians would diagnose as conversion disorder.

Beth often falls sick, and when she does, she receives a lot of attention from her mother who dotes over her. Beth's illnesses is most likely to be maintained by

The least stressful event on the College Undergraduate Stress Scale is

Individuals with factitious disorder fake physical symptoms without any purpose or motive.

An episode of amnesia involving inability to recall some or all of one's past and the loss of identity with either bewildered wandering or travel that seems focused on a particular purpose is a(n)__________

Cognitive stress models place greater emphasis not on how one interprets events but on whether or not one experienced a given event.

_____ refers to the relief from anxiety or responsibility due to the development of physical or psychological symptoms.

Simon has been getting mild headaches regularly since the past few months. He is convinced that the headaches are indicative of a malignant brain tumor. Although magnetic resonance images provided no medical evidence in support of his claim, Simon still maintains that he has a tumor in his brain and is upset about the imagined consequences. In this instance, Simon is most likely to be suffering from

Individuals with the Type A behavior pattern are at the risk of developing

Which somatic symptom disorder involves the translation of unacceptable drives or troubling conflicts into bodily motor or sensory symptoms?

Which of the following diagnostic terms applies to the person who suffered a heart attack (myocardial infarction) owing to a major depressive disorder?