Mental Health Nursing

This term refers to multiple physical complaints with no organic basis

This term refers to a seemingly lack of concern or distress

This term is used to convey the connection between the mind (psyche) and the body (soma) in states of health and illness

This term refers to preoccupation with the fear that one will get a serious disease

This refers to a preoccupation with the fear that one has a serious disease

This disorder begins by age 30, extends over several years and includes a combination of pain and gastrointestinal, sexual, and pseudoneurologic symptoms

This disorder has the primary physical symptoms of pain, which generally unrelieved by analgesics

This disorder is characterized by a preoccupation with the fear that one has a serious disease (disease conviction) or will get a serious disease (disease phobia)

This disorder involves unexplained, usually sudden deficits in sensory or motor function

This disorder is a preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated defect in physical appearance

This hypochondriacal concern comes from India and is characterized by concern about semen loss

This Southeast Asian cultural syndrome is characterized by the belief that the patient is shrinking and will disappear into the abdomen, resulting in death

This Korean bound syndrome is characterized by suppressed anger that causes insomnia, fatigue, panic, indigestion, and generalized aches and pains

This southern United States and Caribbean islands syndrome is characterized by a sudden collapse; person cannot see or move

This cultural-bound syndrome occurs in China and includes physical and mental fatigue, dizziness, backache, pain, sleep disturbance, memory loss, gastrointestinal problems, and sexual dysfunction

In these disorders people willfully control their symptoms

This disorder is the intentional production of false or grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms; it is motivated by external incentives such as avoiding work

This disorder occurs when a person intentionally produces or feigns physical or psychological symptoms solely to gain attention

The common term for factitious disorder in which a person may inflict injury to themselves to receive attention

This variation of factitious disorder occurs when a person inflicts illness or injury to someone else to gain the attention of emergency medical personnel or to be a “hero” for saving the victim

This technique is used to assist clients to relax and reduce feelings of stress

This term refers to keeping stress, anxiety, or frustration inside rather than expressing them outwardly

This technique is used to resolve or change a person’s behavior or situation or to manage life stressors

This term refers to the transference of mental experiences and states into bodily symptoms

This is characterized as the presence of physical symptoms that suggests a medical condition without a demonstrable organic basis to account fully for them