Exam 7: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders

Because the origin of dissociative identity disorder in some cases may stem from the expectations and reinforcements of therapists, the disorder may be considered ____.

Pedro has the most common form of dissociative amnesia.He was a witness to his father's murder but has no memory of the event.This illustrates ____.

The approaches that show the most promise for treating somatic symptom disorders are ____.

Which statement about the validity of repressed memories is accurate?

Colleen has been diagnosed with depersonalization disorder.Which of the following symptoms should be present?

Worldwide, the most common forms of complex somatic symptom disorder symptoms are ____.

Which symptoms are often found in association with fugue and dissociative amnesia?

The ____ perspective explains the cause of dissociative disorders this way: "Extraordinary stress threatens the very existence of the ego and produces extraordinary repression."

Coons (1986)did follow-up research on twenty patients treated for dissociative identity disorder.The findings show that ____.

Dr.Abdullah's new patient is diagnosed with dissociative fugue.Rather than doing in-depth psychotherapy, the doctor prescribes an antidepressant and provides emotional support.Why would Dr.Abdullah respond this way?

Mrs.Klinger has a ten-year history of fearing a heart attack, although no doctor has found anything wrong with her heart.She frequently calls emergency services and lies in bed most days worrying that she will have a coronary.Mrs.Klinger suffers from ____.

What have researchers concluded when comparing cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT)with standard medical care that is augmented with psychiatric consultation for treating somatization symptoms and complaints?

Suppose we interviewed fifty people with illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis).Which of the following quotes do you expect we would hear most often?

Wanda fakes her pain complaints because she is hoping to get a large monetary award from an insurance company.Roberta experiences fever and pain because she has injected herself with bacteria.Wanda's behavior illustrates ____; Roberta's behavior illustrates ____.

Which statement about dissociative amnesia is accurate?

Pope and colleagues (2006)reported that the number of publications related to dissociative disorder and dissociative amnesia ____.

Dr.Young asks these questions of a child: "Do you ever sort of space out? Does it ever happen that time goes by and you can't remember what you were doing during that time? Do you ever do things that surprise you and you later stop and ask yourself why you did that?" What problem is Dr.Young investigating?

The symptoms of dissociative disorders generally become known through ____.

Jerald wakes up in New Jersey, some four hundred miles from his home in New Hampshire.He cannot remember how he got there, and he has no memory of his former life.He establishes a new identity in New Jersey.This illustrates ____.

A friend of yours asks, "Isn't it easy to tell when a person is faking the symptoms of dissociative identity disorder?" An accurate answer would be: ____.