KHA724 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anxiety Disorder, Attention Seeking, Hypochondriasis
30 Aug 2018
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Illness anxiety comes through in a number of presentations: e. g. Gad, health presentations, new parents: presents in a number of different ways. Previously referred to by hypochondriasis: began to have the negative connotations, constantly worrying, this is not the case for a true presentation of illness anxiety disorder. Multiple unhelpful rules and assumptions that you will repeatedly work through with a client: 10-30 behavioural experiments, exposure to fears. Difficulty for us because we are not medical practitioner: talk to gp to find out what tests have been conducted, what were the results, get additional cognitions about what the client thinks of the gp feedback. Misdiagnosed as gad: worry about a lot of things, but mostly relate back to health. Motivational interviewing: sprinkle throughout the sessions. Hypotheses: behavioural, avoidance, self inspection, consultation, reassurance, prevention measures, affective, anxiety, depression, anger, cognitive, misinterpretation of bodily sensations, helplessness, rumination, discounting positive, physiological. Increased arousal, sleep disturbances, changes in bodily function.
