PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Somatization, Malingering

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 309
• Professor: Gordon Hall

Document Summary

Somatic symptom and related disorders: soma = body, prominent physical or bodily symptoms associated with impairment or distress, actual physical illnesses may or may not be present. Sick role : morally evil; wicked, iniquitous, depraved, vicious, immoral, blameworthy, reprehensible. In sum, the volume of perceived aches, pains, and weariness has probably changed little historically. What changes is people"s readiness to seek medical help for these symptoms, to define them as disease, and to give them fixed attributions. Somatic symptom disorder: pattern of reporting and reacting to pain or other distressing symptoms, pattern occurs for at least six months. Involves persistent thoughts or high anxiety about the symptoms: person remains convinced they have a serious disease, even when tests rule out illness. In about 10% of cases, symptoms are early indications of a medical condition. Illness anxiety disorder: chronic pattern of preoccupation with having or contracting a serious illness, pattern must be present for at least six months.