Docsity
Docsity

Prepare for your exams
Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity


Earn points to download
Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan


Guidelines and tips
Guidelines and tips

Dissociative Disorders: Definition, Types, and Treatment, Quizzes of Psychology

Definitions, symptoms, and treatments for various dissociative disorders, including dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, and dissociative identity disorder. It also discusses personality disorders, such as antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder, and their treatments.

Typology: Quizzes

2012/2013

Uploaded on 04/22/2013

dashonna
dashonna 🇺🇸

23 documents

1 / 3

Toggle sidebar

This page cannot be seen from the preview

Don't miss anything!

bg1
TERM 1
Dissociative disorders
DEFINITION 1
Dissociative disorders are conditions that involve disruptions
or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity or
perception.Extreme and potentially frequent disruptions of
awareness, memory, and personal identity that impair
functioning.dissociative amnesiadissociative
fuguedissociative identity disorder
TERM 2
dissociative amnesia
DEFINITION 2
There has been no cause or physical impairment, but the
patient has symptoms of amnesia.The person has really
forgotten things
TERM 3
dissociative fugue
DEFINITION 3
We often see them disappear, no ones heard from them in
days or weeks, become a whole new person, go to a new
state, live under a different name.attempt to avoid negative
issues in life by making drastic changes
TERM 4
dissociative identity disorder
DEFINITION 4
least common, most controversial, often confused with
schizophreniaperson has different personas for any given
point of the day or week.personalities come forth depending
on their life needspersonas are not aware of the other
personas but they compartmentalize and don't know what
the others are doingmay or may not disrupt everyday life
TERM 5
treatment
DEFINITION 5
Fugue or amnesia: sometimes spontaneous recovery occurs
for simpler cases.Dissociative identity disorder: treatment
debate,treat the symptoms by blending the personas, or
treat the cause by working on the issues that cause the
breakdown
pf3

Partial preview of the text

Download Dissociative Disorders: Definition, Types, and Treatment and more Quizzes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity!

Dissociative disorders

Dissociative disorders are conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity or perception.Extreme and potentially frequent disruptions of awareness, memory, and personal identity that impair functioning.dissociative amnesiadissociative fuguedissociative identity disorder TERM 2

dissociative amnesia

DEFINITION 2 There has been no cause or physical impairment, but the patient has symptoms of amnesia.The person has really forgotten things TERM 3

dissociative fugue

DEFINITION 3 We often see them disappear, no ones heard from them in days or weeks, become a whole new person, go to a new state, live under a different name.attempt to avoid negative issues in life by making drastic changes TERM 4

dissociative identity disorder

DEFINITION 4 least common, most controversial, often confused with schizophreniaperson has different personas for any given point of the day or week.personalities come forth depending on their life needspersonas are not aware of the other personas but they compartmentalize and don't know what the others are doingmay or may not disrupt everyday life TERM 5

treatment

DEFINITION 5 Fugue or amnesia: sometimes spontaneous recovery occurs for simpler cases.Dissociative identity disorder: treatment debate,treat the symptoms by blending the personas, or treat the cause by working on the issues that cause the breakdown

personality disorders

Impairments in identity, personality traits, and in the establishment of intimacy or empathy.Antisocial personality disorderTreatment plan TERM 7

antisocial personality disorder

DEFINITION 7

  • You don't care about other people- show no regret or remorse- lack of empathy- criminal behavior- inability to process emotion TERM 8

treatment of personality disorder

DEFINITION 8

  • Anger control and moral reasoning- Positive outcomes of good behaviorMost treatments including medications are not effective TERM 9

borderline personality disorder

DEFINITION 9 Borderline personality disorder (called emotionally unstable personality disorder, borderline type in the ICD-10) is a personality disorder characterized by unusual variability and depth of moods. TERM 10

Borderline personality

DEFINITION 10

  • Unstable relationships, self-image, & emotion- Associated with childhood trauma- Treatment Plancycle thru notions of being worried, to being angry, to being sorryneed constant reassurance