Download Mental Health: Dissociative Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, Mood Disorders, and Suicide - and more Study notes Abnormal Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Chapter 7: Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders and Chapter 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide Chapter 7: Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 1 - Describe the chief features of the dissociative disorders. Which is most common? - Describe dissociative identity disorder. What is the another term for dissociative identity disorder. Which is most common? - Describe dissociative amnesia, identifying and briefly explaining its five specific types and discuss how it differs from other types of amnesia. - Describe dissociative fugue. 2 - Describe and discuss depersonalization. - Describe derealization. - Explain what malingering is and discuss problems in differentiating people with dissociative and somatoform disorders from malingerers. 3 - Recount various theoretical perspectives on the etiology and treatment of dissociative disorders. 4 - Define and describe the chief features of somatoform disorders. - Describe the features of conversion disorder, hypochondriasis, and somatization disorder. - Describe munchausen syndrome and contrast it with malingering. - Describe what is meant when we say someone has factitious disorder. - Discuss the features of culture-bound dissociative syndromes such as "amok" and "zar" . - Recount various theoretical perspectives on the etiology and treatment of somatoform disorders disorders, including some of the "history" relating to these disorders. Chapter 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide 5 - Define mood disorder and distinguish between normal and abnormal depressed moods. - What is meant by a unipolar mood disorder? - What is meant by a bipolar mood disorder? 6 - Describe the features of major depression. - Discuss the prevalence of and risk factors for major depression. - Differentiate between reactive and endogenous depression. - Discuss the features of and treatments for seasonal affective disorder. - Discuss postpartum depression and explain how it is different than "maternity blues." - Compare and contrast major depression and dysthymic disorder. - Describe the features and types of bipolar disorder. - Describe the features of a manic episode. - Compare and contrast bipolar disorder and cyclothymic disorder.
