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This term refers to multiple physical complaints with no organic basis
What is hysteria?
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This term refers to a seemingly lack of concern or distress
What is la belle indifference?
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This term is used to convey the connection between the mind (psyche) and the body (soma) in states of health and illness
What is psychosomatic?
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This term refers to preoccupation with the fear that one will get a serious disease
What is disease phobia?
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This refers to a preoccupation with the fear that one has a serious disease
What is disease conviction?
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This disorder begins by age 30, extends over several years and includes a combination of pain and gastrointestinal, sexual, and pseudoneurologic symptoms
What is Somatization disorder?
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This disorder has the primary physical symptoms of pain, which generally unrelieved by analgesics
What is Pain disorder?
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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)
What is Hypochondriasis?
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This disorder involves unexplained, usually sudden deficits in sensory or motor function
What is Conversion disorder?
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This disorder is a preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated defect in physical appearance
What is Body Dysmorphic disorder?
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This hypochondriacal concern comes from India and is characterized by concern about semen loss
What is Dhat?
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This Southeast Asian cultural syndrome is characterized by the belief that the patient is shrinking and will disappear into the abdomen, resulting in death
What is Koro?
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This Korean bound syndrome is characterized by suppressed anger that causes insomnia, fatigue, panic, indigestion, and generalized aches and pains
What is Hwa-byung?
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This southern United States and Caribbean islands syndrome is characterized by a sudden collapse; person cannot see or move
What is falling out episodes?
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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
What is Shenjing shuariou?
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In these disorders people willfully control their symptoms
What are Malingering and factitious disorders?
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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
What is Malingering?
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This disorder occurs when a person intentionally produces or feigns physical or psychological symptoms solely to gain attention
What is factitious disorder?
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The common term for factitious disorder in which a person may inflict injury to themselves to receive attention
What is Munchhausen syndrome?
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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
What is Munchhausen syndrome by proxy?
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This technique is used to assist clients to relax and reduce feelings of stress
What is emotion-focused coping strategies?
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This term refers to keeping stress, anxiety, or frustration inside rather than expressing them outwardly
What is internalization?
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This technique is used to resolve or change a person’s behavior or situation or to manage life stressors
What is Problem-focused coping strategies?
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This term refers to the transference of mental experiences and states into bodily symptoms
What is Somatization?
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This is characterized as the presence of physical symptoms that suggests a medical condition without a demonstrable organic basis to account fully for them
What is the Somatoform disorders?
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