Somatoform Disorders Conversion Disorder Hypocondriasis Factitious Disorder Munchausen

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Personality Disorders There a number of personality disorders that may impair one’s social functioning Two examples are: Borderline personality involves unstable identity, emotions, and relationships Antisocial personality involves a lack of conscience

Psychotherapy is education Education can mean learning new information, a new viewpoint, or practicing a new skill. 1) 2) 3) 4) new information insight skill development feedback and support

Psychotherapy u Two key concepts are: u Transference - patterns of relating from previous relationships are repeated and transferred to therapist u Resistance - the client subverts therapeutic process to avoid threatening material

Psychological Therapies Psychoanalytic -- Sigmund Freud Emphasizes etiology Humanistic Person-centered -- Carl Rogers Gestalt -- Fritz Perls Hakomi – Ron Kurtz Cognitive -- Albert Ellis, Aaron Beck Behavioral Systematic Desensitization --Mary Cover Jones Operant Conditioning

Different ways of dealing with resistance: u Meet head on (keep bringing it up) u Move to the side (drop the topic until it returns again) u Actively support the resistance (help the client to resist)

Hakomi Therapy u Establishes mindfulness u Evokes experience u Supports resistance

Eating Disorders u Bulimia – binge eating followed by either u purging u excessive exercise – Can be any weight u about 5% of high school females u about 14% of college females (seniors) u often appears with depression

Eating Disorders u Anorexia Nervosa – Self induced starvation – Abnormal fear of being fat – Feel fat even though they are thin (distorted body image). – About 1% of adolescent females u 80% to 90% of bulimics and anorexics are women.

Tactile Stimuli