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| The psychological advantage that an illness itself creates. |
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| The consequence of the illness that has a bonus aspect for the patient. |
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| Physical symptoms substituted for psychological disease. (ex. chronic pain syndrome, hysterical paralysis, and hypochondriasis) |
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| made up symptoms that allow the patient to assume a sick role without material gain in mind. |
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What is the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders called?
(manual in which mental disorders are classified in 5 different "axes") |
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DSM-IV-TR
(TR- means text revision) |
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The following are examples of what?
change of job, pregnancy, new mortgage, death of a loved one? |
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| Agoraphobia, social phobia, obsessive compulsive are examples of what type of disorder? |
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| Split Personality is what type of disorder? |
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adaptive regression of a significantly ill patient in order to accept treatment
(alters role to become a patient by becoming dependent instead of independent) |
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| ability to take on the child role when ill as a patient. |
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| Distant relative syndrome |
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| A syndrome in which distant relative visits create a whirlwind of criticism about a previously stable patient's care because he/she does not understand the magnitude of the illness/deficit. |
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| Lonely immigrant syndrome |
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| A syndrome in which an immigrant substitutes medical care for a lack of socialization. |
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| The body and mind are two separate though parallel entities...the body is physical and the mind is non physical. |
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| What is "symptom on the plate" |
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a patient alters their true symptoms because they are emarrased or afraid of rejection.
(ex. I have a toothache is my complaint but in reality I know that I grind my teeth due to anxiety) |
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| personality with time urgency and striving for perfection. |
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| personality that is non-competitive, not bothered by lateness, accepting of all types of behavior. |
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| A patient that does not tolerate the dependent role and often switches doctors and therapists. A patient who want full control of their care and does so by withholding information to doctors. |
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| The closest person with whom a patient presently chooses or is forced to relate. |
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| ways different people respond when suffering the same symptoms. |
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