Exam 7: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders

What mental health problem is typically associated with both dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue?

Dissociative identity disorder (DID)is more prevalent in ____ than in ____.

Describe the features of complex somatic symptom disorder with somatization features (somatization disorder), factitious disorders, and malingering, delineating how the three can be differentiated from one another.

Dr.Hart is a psychoanalyst treating a patient with dissociative identity disorder.He will probably explain the loss of memory in his patient as being due to ____.

A psychologist says, "This person's problem is that a part of her consciousness-her memory-has split off from the rest of her consciousness, even though there is no evidence of brain damage." The psychologist is describing a person with a(n)____.

Depersonalization disorder differs from other dissociative disorders in that it ____.

Marge has gone to doctors with more than twenty different somatic complaints in the past year and has had surgery four times.She has few anxiety or depressive symptoms, but doctors never satisfy her when they say, "There's nothing wrong with you physically." What is unusual about this patient?

Dr.Newman used hypnosis to help Marianne return to her childhood and uncover a hidden trauma that might be causing her symptoms.Dr.Newman's therapeutic orientation is probably ____.

Sharon has caused diarrhea in her 3-year-old daughter by feeding her spoiled milk and rotten eggs.When the child is repeatedly hospitalized, Sharon acts like a very worried and caring mother.Since Sharon does not get to play the sick role and gets no obvious reward for her behavior, her appropriate diagnosis is ____.

According to the sociocognitive model (SCM)of dissociative identity disorder (DID), the disorder develops ____.

The most promising treatment for somatic symptom disorders involves which approach?

Describe and distinguish the psychodynamic and iatrogenic explanations for dissociative identity disorder.What are the points of overlap between these explanations?

Pain is to ____ as paralysis and absence of pain are to ____.

Dr.Krank says, "Patients who continually report being in pain have a higher-than-normal arousal level." Dr.Krank's explanation of complex somatic symptom disorder with somatization features (somatization disorder)reflects which perspective?

Evidence supporting the biological perspective on patients with illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis)includes research showing they ____.

Which of the following persons has symptoms that most likely indicate a possible functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)?

Are reports of formerly repressed memories authentic?

Which type of dissociative amnesia disorder is correctly paired with its chief characteristic?

Goff and Simms (1993)compared case reports of dissociative identity disorder from the years before 1965 and from the 1980s.More recent cases tend to have ____.

Reinforcement of illness behaviors and parental modeling of how to act sick are both etiological factors in which theory of functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)?