Week 6 Exam: NR607 / NR 607
(Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Diagnosis & Management in Psychiatric-Mental Health III Practicum | Questions & Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Chamberlain
Question:
Treatment of dissociative disorders
Answer:
-psychotherapy • techniques to process the trauma that triggers dissociative symptoms
• CBT
• sensorimotor psychotherapy • Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) (controversial) -trauma-informed care -meds may be used to tx other related symptoms
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Question:
DID Integration
Answer:
-psychotherapy with a tx goal of integrated functioning of the dissociated aspects of the personality
-integration process may include the following stages:
• uncovering & mapping the dissociated aspects • treating the traumatic memories & fusing the dissociated aspects • fortifying the newly integrated personality
Question:
Somatic Symptom and Related Disorder
Answer:
-characterized by the prominence of somatic symptoms and/or illness anxiety • associated with significant distress or impairment -Symptoms may or may not be explained by pathophysiological processes -often have medical comorbidities, more likely to encounter PCPs rather than psychiatric/MH providers -Anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD also common comorbidities -Somatic symptoms can increase their severity, complexity, related functional impairment, & refractoriness to tx
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Question:
Types of somatic symptom disorder & related disorders
Answer:
-Somatic Symptom Disorder -Illness Anxiety Disorder -Conversion Disorder -Factitious Disorder
Question:
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Answer:
characterized by individual's significant focus on 1+ physical symptoms to the extent that it causes major distress and/or disruption of daily life • pain, fatigue, weakness, SOB • may or may not be associated with another medical condition -worry about symptoms or their overall health disproportionate to their condition • may experience persistent thoughts about the symptoms, expend excessive time & energy devoted to the symptoms -often use a high level of medical care & may seem unresponsive to interventions.
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