Psychology Category
A disorder of distressing somatic symptoms with excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to them, partially replacing the older concept of hypochondriasis. Research covers symptom perception, health anxiety, and CBT and mindfulness-based interventions.
Welcome to the Somatic Symptom Disorder category of this site. Here you will find clear, detailed articles covering key topics related to Somatic Symptom Disorder.
A detailed guide to acceptance and commitment approaches to bodily distress. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to alexithymia and difficulty describing emotions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to antidepressant medication for somatic symptom disorder. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to anxiety disorders and somatic symptom comorbidity. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to attention bias toward somatic sensations. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to autonomic nervous system activity and symptom reports. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to biofeedback training for functional somatic symptoms. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to body scanning behavior and symptom monitoring. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to catastrophic thinking about bodily symptoms. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to cognitive behavioral therapy for somatic symptoms. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to cultural variation in somatic symptom expression. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to distinguishing somatic symptom from factitious disorder. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to doctor shopping and repeated medical consultations. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to early life adversity and somatic symptom development. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to exposure based treatment for health anxiety. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to family accommodation and somatic symptom management. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to fatigue and neurological symptoms in somatic disorder. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to functional impairment from somatic symptoms. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to gender differences in somatic symptom disorder. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to genetic and family factors in somatic symptom disorder. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to graded exercise and activity management in treatment. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to health anxiety and excessive health related behaviors. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to illness anxiety disorder and somatic symptom overlap. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to illness beliefs and symptom interpretation patterns. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to inflammation and somatic symptom vulnerability. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to internet delivered treatment for somatic symptoms. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to interoceptive accuracy and body sensation awareness. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to measurement scales for somatic symptom severity. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to medically unexplained symptoms across clinical settings. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to mindfulness based therapy for somatic symptom disorder. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to neural correlates of somatic symptom perception. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to pain as a central feature of somatic distress. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to persistent somatization across the lifespan. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to personality traits and somatic symptom risk. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to preventing unnecessary medical testing in somatic care. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to prognosis and long term outcomes of somatization. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to psychoeducation for patients with somatic symptoms. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to reassurance seeking in somatic symptom disorder. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to somatic symptom disorder and employment disability. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to somatic symptom disorder comorbid with depression. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to somatic symptom disorder diagnostic criteria in dsm 5. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to somatic symptom disorder in children and adolescents. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to somatic symptom disorder in primary care patients. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to stigma and invalidation in somatic symptom disorder. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to suicide risk among patients with somatic symptoms. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to symptom perception and bodily sensation amplification. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the cognitive behavioral model of somatic distress. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the gut brain axis and functional somatic symptoms. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the history of hypochondriasis and modern diagnoses. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the therapeutic relationship in somatic symptom disorder. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
