PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Malingering, Mitigating Factor, Sick Role
9 Aug 2016
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Having a physical symptom that can"t be explained. The person is actually feeling pain but it cant be explained. There is no medical cause to the physical harm, but a psychological one. Hypochondriac: someone who often thinks they are suffering from multiple illness. 2) someone with extreme pain that cannot be explained. 4) someone begins to experience symptoms of pregnancy. Body begins releasing hormone related to pregnancy etc 5) any other physical symptom that cant be explained and has psychological meaning. Psychological need to be taken care of and obtaining the sick role. Pathogenic model: vey limited empirical support, someone malingers to deal with an existing mental illness. Criminological: someone will malinger in order to avoid legal consequence. More often than not people are accused of malingering under this model when they are not. Offender malingers if the benefit outweighs the cost. Rare symptoms: best way to identify if someone is malingering.
