PSYC 4052 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sick Role, Aphonia, Bloating
30 Oct 2014
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Both share similar characteristsic concern with physical symptoms. Patents with panic disorder fear immediate symptom-realted catastrophes that may occur during the panic attack. Preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease based on a person"s misinterpretation of bodily symptoms. Preoccupations persists despite appropriate medical evaluation and reassurance. Cognitive: misinterpretation of body signs; concern that disease is present; focus on anxiety; view negative events as unpredictable. The patient suffering from somatization isn"t afraid that they have a disease and they don"t feel the urgency to take action. Where as in hypo, they"re concerned with the symptoms themselves and not with what they mean. Family history of sexual abuse, lower education, not verbalizing emotional stress. Paralysis, blindness or difficulty speaking: what was freud"s original theory about conversion disorder, (including la. Preoccupationa or anxiety of a particular imaginary physical defect. Compensating rituals; suicidal ideation; they think everything that goes on in their world relates to them.
