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treatment for depression


- help the patient find ways to become more active and engaged with life


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Behavioural activation treatment




a condition in which one person induces illness symptoms in someone else


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factitious disorder imposed on another

,different patterns of symptoms that sometimes characterize major depressive
episodes


- may help predict the course and preferred treatments for the condition


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Specifiers




Both disorders are characterized by preoccupation with physical symptoms, but only
people with hypochondria tend to be convinced that they have an organic disease.


With hypochondria's the person usually has only one or a few primary symptoms, but
somatization has multiple symptoms


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similarities of and differences between these closely related disorders.




Very little controlled systematic research has been done on the treatment of nor is
there much known about how to treat it successfully.DID


- thought to be resistant to treatment,
-treatment may be useful for related psychopathy such as anxiety such as anxiety and
depressive disorders.


Some think that hypnosis may be helpful in people with depersonalization disorder as
patients can learn to dissociate and reassocaite, therefore gaining some sense of
control over their depersonalization and derealization experiences.


- antidepressant, antianxiety medication and antipsychotic - modest effects.

,In dissociation amnesia and fugue


- remove the patient from a threatening environment.
> sometimes = spontaneous recovery


For DID,
- treatments based on the assumption of PTSD theory Most therapists set integration
of the previously separated alters, together with their collective merging into the host
personality, as the ultimate goal of treatment. In addition,
-treatment faces considerable resistance, however.


Typically treatment for DID is psychodynamic and insight oriented, focusing on
uncovering and working through the trauma and other conflicts that may have lead to
the disorder.


Hypnosis can be helpful in getting patients to process and move past the
unconscious implication of their childhood abuse.


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Describe the most appropriate treatments for the dissociative disorders, as
well as the limitations of biological and psychological treatments.




self-harm intended to provide relief from negative feelings or to induce a positive
mood state


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nonsuicidal self-injury




- increasing an individual sensitivity to stressful life events in adulthood.

, - long-term effects of such environmental adversity may be mediated by both
biological variable and psychological variables


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Early adversity as a diathesis




A rare dissociative disorder
person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
AKA multiple personality disorder.


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Dissociative identity disorder




symptoms of both full-blown manic and major depressive episodes for at least 1
week,


- symptoms are intermixed or alternate rapidly every few days


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mixed episode




A. the predominant disturbance is one or more episodes of inability to recall
important personal information, usually have a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too
extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.


B. the disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of dissociative

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