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| What are some hallmarks regarding dissociative disorders? MCIP |
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| disturbed; memory, consciousness, identity, perception |
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| True or false. Dissociative Disorders can have a suggenj, gradual, transient, or chronic onset. |
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What are the four types of Dissociative Disorders?
DA DF DID DP
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Dissociative Amnesia
Dissociative Fugue
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Depersonalization Disorder |
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| What are some features of Dissociative Amnesia? |
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Definition
| inability to recall important personal info, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness |
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| What is dissociative fugue? |
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| sudden unexpected travel away from home or work, with an inability to recall one's past and confusion about own identity or with assuming a new identity. |
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| What is Dissociative Identity Disorder? |
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| The presence of two or more distinct identities/personalitiy traits that take control and impair the ability to recall personal info. Characterized by ID fragmentation rather than proliferation of separate personalities. Formally called multiple personality disorder |
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| What is Depersonalization Disorder? |
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| persistent/recurrent feelings of being detached from one's mental processes or body and is accompanied by intact reality testing. |
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