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Treatment Plan for Conversion Disorder
Treatment Plan for Conversion Disorder Things to remember when dealing with possible conversion symptoms • Always think of physical diseases as the cause for sudden physical or mental symptoms. Only if these can be ruled out should you consider conversion disorder. • Conversion disorder is the new name for hysteria. Common conversion symptoms are losing […]
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How to Treat Conversion Disorder
How to Treat Conversion Disorder What to do immediately • Make sure that the symptoms are not caused by a medical illness. • Explain to the family that there is no life-threatening illness. However, do not make them think that the person is pretending to be sick. • Symptoms often resolve quickly, within hours or […]
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treatment of conversion disorder review
treatment of conversion disorder review Questions to ask the family or friends • How did it start? A symptom that happened suddenly and without any previous signs of ill health is more likely to be a conversion symptom. • Has there been any stress recently? Enquire specifically about examinations, job problems and marriage arrangements. treatment […]
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Conversion Disorder Psychology
When to suspect a psychological cause of conversion disorder There are many clues to the possibility of a psychological cause for the symptom: • if the person is less than 40 years of age, brain disease is unlikely; • if there are no other signs of serious physical illness (for example, people with a stroke […]
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Can conversion disorder happen like an epidemic?
Even though mental illnesses are not infectious, conversion disorder can sometimes occur in many people who are living close together. The typical example is in schoolchildren, often girls. If one girl develops a conversion symptom, some of the other girls may also develop the same symptom, and this gives the appearance of an epidemic. One […]
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conversion disorder symptoms generally appear
conversion disorder symptoms face tingling. This section is about losing a physical function of the body, such as the ability to speak, or move a part of the body, or losing a mental function, such as memory or consciousness. The first cause to consider is a brain disease, particularly an injury to the brain or […]
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How to treatment of conversion disorder
Studies of interventions in conversion disorder are largely uncontrolled studies of cohorts of people with the disorder or case studies. At the time of writing, few randomized controlled trials – the gold standard of intervention research – had been conducted. This makes it difficult to ascribe any successes found in the published research to the […]
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Aetiology of conversion disorder
Social processes Social factors are involved in the development of conversion disorder, at least on some occasions. The condition has been described as contagious, in that the sight or knowledge of one person with unexplained symptoms may trigger similar symptoms in others, particularly in situations where many people are grouped together and placed under some […]
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What is conversion disorder
Long known as hysteria or hysterical conversion, the American Psychiatric Association now calls this condition conversion disorder. DSM-IV-TR provides the diagnostic criteria for this diagnosis: One or more symptoms or deficits affect voluntary motor or sensory function that suggest a neurological or other general medical condition. Psychological factors are judged to be associated with the […]
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