Chapter 21- Dissociative Disorders

Question 1

What is dissociation?

Answer 1

Is a mental process that causes a lack of connection between a person’s conscious awareness and some aspect of him/herself (e.g., memory, sense of identity, self-perception, experience of reality)

Question 2

What are 3 main dissociative disorders:

Answer 2

• Depersonalization/derealization disorder
• Dissociative identity disorder/multiple personality disorder
• Dissociative amnesia disorder

Question 3

What is depersonalization/derealization disorder?

Answer 3

Persistent depersonalization: feeling detached from one’s body or mental processes

Persistent derealization: feeling of unreality or detachment from one’s surrounding

Question 4

What is the gender prevalence?

Answer 4

Equally prevalent in men and women

Question 5

What are 2 cognitive symptoms?

Answer 5

Fragmentation of identity, memory gaps

Question 6

What is dissociative amnesia disorder?

Answer 6

Extensive memory loss; not attributable to illness, disease or substance use

Question 7

What is dissociative identity disorder

Answer 7

• 2 or more distinct personality states and reccurent gaps in recall of everyday events, personal info and/or traumatic events

Question 8

What is the treatment of dissociative disorders?

5pts

Answer 8

-Placebo and psychotherapy
–> family therapy, paradoxical interventions, flooding, CBT