Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Factitious Disorder, Body Glove
25 Feb 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Somatic symptom and related disorders: conditions in which physical symptoms or concerns about an illness cannot be explained by a medical or psychological disorder, four different disorders: somatic symptom disorder, conversion disorder, illness anxiety disorder, and factitious disorder. Illness anxiety disorder persist despite medical reassurance: fears or concerns about having an illness that, dysfunctional mind-set leads to worry about, health anxiety disorder, 78% percent experience comorbidity with health and illness anxiety disorder and major depression. Illness preoccupation present for at least 6 months. Research hot topic: the challenge of chronic fatigue syndrome (cfs: once called a somatoform disorder, diagnostic criteria, huge economic impact, cdc estimates 0. 5-2% people affected in u. s. Are certain populations more at risk for somatic symptom disorders: sex, race, and ethnicity, somatoform disorder is reported more frequently by women, racial and ethnic breakdowns, the use of sociocultural explanations (e. g. , family and community problems)
