FINAL & HESI EXAM: NRSG 3140 / NRSG3140 (LATEST
UPDATES STUDY BUNDLE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS) THERAPEUTIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT |
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100% CORRECT |
GRADE A - GCSU
Hysteria .....ANSWER.....symptom pattern characterized by
excitability and physical symptoms (convulsions, loss of vision,
paralysis) in the absence of any psychological cause
Primary gain .....ANSWER.....avoidance of conflict presenting as
physical symptoms
Secondary gain .....ANSWER.....hysterical symptoms which helps
patient avoid responsibility and gain attention and sympathy
Dissociative disorders .....ANSWER.....severe maladaptive
disruptions or alterations of identity, memory, and consciousness
that are experienced as being beyond one's control.
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Main feature of dissociative disorders
.....ANSWER.....Disassociation
Dissociation .....ANSWER.....the lack of normal integration of one
or more aspects of psychological functioning, such as identity,
memory, consciousness, emotion, sensorimotor functioning, and
behaviour
2 groups of dissociative experiences, GROUP 1
.....ANSWER.....mild, non-pathological forms of dissociation, such
as absorption and imaginative involvement, that are normally
distributed on a continuum across the general population
2 groups of dissociative experiences, GROUP 2
.....ANSWER.....more severe, pathological types of experiences,
such as amnesia, derealization, depersonalization, and identity
alteration, that do not normally occur in the general population
and that form a discrete category.
Taxon .....ANSWER.....discreet category
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3 major dissociative disorders in the DSM-5
.....ANSWER.....dissociative amnesia
(includes dissociative fugue),DPDR disorder, and DID.
Dissociative amnesia .....ANSWER.....Inability to recall important
personal information. Includes dissociative fugue
dissociative fugue .....ANSWER.....rare condition in
which individuals unexpectedly leave home and
may turn up in a distant city with no memory of
their past
Dissociative identity disorder .....ANSWER.....Presence of two or
more personality states
Depersonalization/derealization disorder .....ANSWER.....Feeling
of being detached from oneself and
one's physical and social environment.
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persistent or recurrent
experiences of depersonalization and/or derealization.
false memory
syndrome .....ANSWER.....proposed condition in
which people are induced by therapists to remember events that
never occurred (Loftus)
other specified dissociative disorder .....ANSWER.....clinically
significant symptoms that do not
meet diagnostic criteria for any of the above disorders
identity disturbance
due to prolonged and intense coercive persuasion
.....ANSWER.....presentation of other specified dissociative
disorder