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Questions:
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Why are the effects of reassurance short-lived in people with severe health anxiety?
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What is passive avoidance?
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Regarding parent-child interactions and Health Anxiety, early learning experiences arise from particular patterns of parent-child interaction that might predispose a person to develop excessive health anxiety as a child later in life. Learning experiences may exert their effects by shaping health-related beliefs and coping behaviors. What are the types of parent-child patterns that would affect the development of health anxiety?
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The research literature, although limited to a small number of reports, suggests that any of us may succumb to MPI under the right conditions. Why is no one immune?
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To assess beliefs relevant to understanding health anxiety disorder, the clinician can ask the patient to describe a recent health anxiety episode. Systematic questioning is then used for what purpose?
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Answers:
A. The deliberate failure to engage in some normal activity.
B. Although there is little research in this area, there are several possible explanations. One is the calming effect of reassurance persists until the person notices more bodily changes or sensations. This can lead the health anxious person to wonder, “why would I be experiencing more symptoms if my doctor said I am healthy?”
C. Humans continually construct reality and the perceived danger needs only to be plausible in order to gain acceptance within a particular group and generate anxiety.
D. Parental modeling, parental overprotection, and parental reinforcement.
E. To identify what the patient regards as the worst part of the event, and why he or she thinks it is bad. “What was most upsetting about--?”, “Suppose-- did happen, why would that be bad?”, “If it was true, what would that mean to you?” ,“What could happen if -- did occur?” |
