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What makes the diagnosis of psychological disorders with somatic symptoms difficult?
What makes the diagnosis of psychological disorders with somatic symptoms difficult?
- The clear distinction between real and imagined symptoms
- The internalizing nature of the disorder and the varied forms the somatic symptoms can take (correct)
- The lack of available treatment options for somatic symptoms
- The external triggers causing somatic symptoms
What are the possible forms that somatic symptoms can take according to the text?
What are the possible forms that somatic symptoms can take according to the text?
- Faking, imagining, over exaggerating, or real triggered by external factors (correct)
- Faking, imagining, only real triggered by external factors, or due to real medical illness
- Imagining, over exaggerating, real triggered by external factors, or due to real medical illness
- Only real triggered by external factors, due to real medical illness, over exaggerating, or faking
What is a common feature shared by all disorders within the chapter on Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders?
What is a common feature shared by all disorders within the chapter on Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders?
- They all require medicinal treatment
- They all have easily measurable symptoms
- They all have clear external triggers
- They all involve somatic symptoms (correct)
What is the significance of the internalizing nature of disorders with somatic symptoms?
What is the significance of the internalizing nature of disorders with somatic symptoms?
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Why are psychological disorders with somatic symptoms difficult to diagnose?
Why are psychological disorders with somatic symptoms difficult to diagnose?
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