RASMUSSEN MENTAL HEALTH -
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Somatoform Disorders
Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ Subjective Characterized by the presence of one or
more physical symptoms accompanied by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behavioral
reactions that cannot be defined by an underlying medical condition or disease.
Somatoform disorder
Highest Priority - Correct Answer ✔✔ Often undergo unnecessary surgeries, invasive
diagnostic procedures, and drug trials, all of which can be life-threatening.
Somatoform Disorder
Secondary Gains - Correct Answer ✔✔ Somatization may be used for secondary gains
such as attention and decreased responsibilities.
Hypochondriasis or Illness Anxiety Disorder
Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ Preoccupied with having or eventually developing a
serious illness.
May or may not present with somatic symptoms, and if they do, the symptoms are
usually mild.
High level of anxiety and alarm about their health lasting at least 6 month.
May either excessively check for problems or avoid medical care.
Hypochondriasis
Signs and Symptoms - Correct Answer ✔✔ The most common symptoms are pain,
gastric or intestinal distress, palpitations, dizziness, shortness of breath, sexual
dysfunction, neurological symptoms, and fatigue.
Hypochondriasis
Nursing Interventions - Correct Answer ✔✔ Nurses role is to assess for any objective
data and to explain the health complaints. Show concern, but avoid fostering
dependency.
Conversion Disorder
Definition
Common Signs and Symptoms - Correct Answer ✔✔ Medical disorder (objective) that
cannot be explained.
, This disorder presents with one or more symptoms of impaired motor or sensory
function. Findings are incompatible with or an exaggeration of recognized neurological
conditions and are not better explained by another mental or medical disorder.
Most common are blindness, deafness, paralysis, inability to talk. Symptoms are
beyond conscious control and are related directly to conflict .
Conversion Disorder
Nursing Interventions - Correct Answer ✔✔ Encourage independence in ADL's in a
matter of fact manner.
Dissociative Disorders
Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ A disturbance in the normally well-integrated continuum
of consciousness, memory, identity, and perception.
Dissociation is an unconscious defense mechanism to protect the individual against
overwhelming anxiety related to past trauma, and ranges from minor to severe in
presentation.
Patients with dissociative disorders have intact reality testing, meaning they are not
delusional or hallucinating.
Dissociative Fugue - Correct Answer ✔✔ The patient in a fugue state frequently
relocates and assumes a new identity while not recalling previous identity or places
previously inhabited.
The distracters are more consistent with paranoid schizophrenia, generalized anxiety
disorder, or bipolar disorder. Head injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, or a
neurological disorder should also be considered.
Dissociative Amnesia - Correct Answer ✔✔ Related to a traumatic incident, and may be
accompanied by a fugue where the patient flees from their normal life to another
location and starts a new life. Gradually over time, memories of the original life may be
triggered. Patients can become confused and embarrassed when the amnesia subsides
and memory returns.
Dissociative Identity Disorder - Correct Answer ✔✔ The most severe of the dissociative
disorders. Disruption of identity by two or more distinct personality states. Involves
discontinuity in the sense of self, accompanied by alterations in affect, behavior,
memory, and functioning. Patients lose time, meaning they do not have memory of
periods of time ranging from minutes to weeks.
The patient is often unaware of the other personalities. Each alternate personality has
its own pattern of personality, perception, and memories.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
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Somatoform Disorders
Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ Subjective Characterized by the presence of one or
more physical symptoms accompanied by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behavioral
reactions that cannot be defined by an underlying medical condition or disease.
Somatoform disorder
Highest Priority - Correct Answer ✔✔ Often undergo unnecessary surgeries, invasive
diagnostic procedures, and drug trials, all of which can be life-threatening.
Somatoform Disorder
Secondary Gains - Correct Answer ✔✔ Somatization may be used for secondary gains
such as attention and decreased responsibilities.
Hypochondriasis or Illness Anxiety Disorder
Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ Preoccupied with having or eventually developing a
serious illness.
May or may not present with somatic symptoms, and if they do, the symptoms are
usually mild.
High level of anxiety and alarm about their health lasting at least 6 month.
May either excessively check for problems or avoid medical care.
Hypochondriasis
Signs and Symptoms - Correct Answer ✔✔ The most common symptoms are pain,
gastric or intestinal distress, palpitations, dizziness, shortness of breath, sexual
dysfunction, neurological symptoms, and fatigue.
Hypochondriasis
Nursing Interventions - Correct Answer ✔✔ Nurses role is to assess for any objective
data and to explain the health complaints. Show concern, but avoid fostering
dependency.
Conversion Disorder
Definition
Common Signs and Symptoms - Correct Answer ✔✔ Medical disorder (objective) that
cannot be explained.
, This disorder presents with one or more symptoms of impaired motor or sensory
function. Findings are incompatible with or an exaggeration of recognized neurological
conditions and are not better explained by another mental or medical disorder.
Most common are blindness, deafness, paralysis, inability to talk. Symptoms are
beyond conscious control and are related directly to conflict .
Conversion Disorder
Nursing Interventions - Correct Answer ✔✔ Encourage independence in ADL's in a
matter of fact manner.
Dissociative Disorders
Definition - Correct Answer ✔✔ A disturbance in the normally well-integrated continuum
of consciousness, memory, identity, and perception.
Dissociation is an unconscious defense mechanism to protect the individual against
overwhelming anxiety related to past trauma, and ranges from minor to severe in
presentation.
Patients with dissociative disorders have intact reality testing, meaning they are not
delusional or hallucinating.
Dissociative Fugue - Correct Answer ✔✔ The patient in a fugue state frequently
relocates and assumes a new identity while not recalling previous identity or places
previously inhabited.
The distracters are more consistent with paranoid schizophrenia, generalized anxiety
disorder, or bipolar disorder. Head injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, or a
neurological disorder should also be considered.
Dissociative Amnesia - Correct Answer ✔✔ Related to a traumatic incident, and may be
accompanied by a fugue where the patient flees from their normal life to another
location and starts a new life. Gradually over time, memories of the original life may be
triggered. Patients can become confused and embarrassed when the amnesia subsides
and memory returns.
Dissociative Identity Disorder - Correct Answer ✔✔ The most severe of the dissociative
disorders. Disruption of identity by two or more distinct personality states. Involves
discontinuity in the sense of self, accompanied by alterations in affect, behavior,
memory, and functioning. Patients lose time, meaning they do not have memory of
periods of time ranging from minutes to weeks.
The patient is often unaware of the other personalities. Each alternate personality has
its own pattern of personality, perception, and memories.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
