Somatic Symptom Disorder
Somatic symptom disorder involves a person having a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as pain, weakness or shortness of breath, that results in major distress and/or problems functioning. The individual has excessive thoughts, feelings and behaviors relating to the physical symptoms.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW210
Diagnosis: Somatic Symptom Disorder
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Age Onset: adolescence
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Symptoms: medical problems, not explained by medicalcause, with excessive worry about the conditions, false pregnancies, mass hysteria,
Progression: psychogenic urinary retention
Causes:
Medications: antidepressants
Therapies: CBT may help reduce stress, cope with preoccupation with symptoms, physical symptoms, depression, improve quality of life
Youtube Video: Body Talk: Stories of Somatization
Amazon or Library Book: The Body Keeps Score
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Section 12.07.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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The world-wide medical research
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- An integrated mental health video consultations model for patients with somatic symptom disorder in primary care: The randomized VISION pilot trialby Markus W Haun on May 18, 2024
CONCLUSION: An integrated mental health video consultations VISION model for patients with SSD presenting to primary care is feasible, acceptable, and safe. Potential clinical effectiveness of the model should be evaluated in confirmatory trial implementing the multifaceted approach tailored to the individual patient with SSD directly into primary care practice.
- Changes in interoceptive accuracy related to emotional interference in somatic symptom disorderby Deokjong Lee on May 16, 2024
CONCLUSION: SSD patients showed more significant changes in IA when neutral facial interference was given. These results suggest that bodily awareness is more affected by emotionally ambiguous stimuli in SSD patients than in healthy controls.
- Illness Anxiety Disorder: A Review of the Current Research and Future Directionsby Katarina Kikas on May 15, 2024
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: We review recent evidence on Illness Anxiety Disorder (IAD), including risk factors and precipitants, diagnostic classification, clinical characteristics of the disorder, and assessment and treatment in both children and adults.
- Fear of childbirth among pregnant women: A concept analysisby Chunning Chen on May 13, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: The current analysis provides healthcare providers with a more comprehensive framework to assess and identify fear of childbirth. Further research is needed to develop a suitable instrument that covers all the attributes and dimensions of this concept and assesses its severity.