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yoroshambo

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Identify the features and epidemiology of somatic symptom disorders.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Cognitive-behavioral therapy for people with schizophrenia aims to
 
  a. create a weak therapeutic alliance with the client.
  b. educate a client about his psychosis and reduce stigma associated with symptoms.
  c. increase the stress associated with psychotic symptoms.
  d. increase delusions and hallucinations to produce change.


billybob123

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

- somatization is a tendency to communicate distress through physical symptoms and to pursue medical help for the symptoms
- somatization disorder refers to the presence of using medicine to explain the pain and gastrointestinal, sexual, and pseudoneurological symptoms
- somatic symptom disorder involves vague complaints of pain in areas where such pain would be difficult to verify
- conversion disorder refers to medically unexplained pseudoneurological symptoms
- illness anxiety disorder refers to excessive concern that one has a serious disease
- somatization is common among medical patients, but formal somatic symptom disorders are less prevalent
- the most common somatic symptom disorder is illness anxiety disorder.

Answer to Question 2

b


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