PSYCH 2AP3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Asthma, School Refusal, Not Proven

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AP3
• Professor: Richard B Day

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Includes: somatic symptom disorder, illness anxiety disorder, psychological factors affecting medical condition, conversion disorder, factitious disorder. Somatic symptom disorder: used to (cid:271)e (cid:272)alled b(cid:396)i(cid:395)uet"s sy(cid:374)d(cid:396)o(cid:373)e. Severe pain or illness in which psychological factor play a major role. People with somatic disorder does not feel and urge to take action but continue to feel ill. Involve psychological anxiety that that focus on the possibility of having or developing serious disease. Physical symptom at the time is either no existence or very mild: do not complain despite having serious anxiety about contracting an disorder, worries about the idea of developing illness. Share feature with anxiety and mood disorder, particularly pd. Similar age of onset, personality characteristics, pattern of familial aggregation (runs in the family) Individual is preoccupied with bodily symptoms, misinterpret them as indication of illness or disease: any physical sensation could become the basis of concern, always go initially to family physical.