To assess clients effectively, the nurse must understand that an essential difference between
somatoform disorders and dissociative disorders is
a. symptoms of somatoform disorders are under voluntary control, whereas
symptoms of dissociative disorders are unconscious and automatic.
b. symptoms of dissociative disorders are precipitated by psychological factors,
whereas symptoms of somatoform disorders are related to stress.
c. dissociative disorders involve stress-related disruptions of memory,
consciousness, or identity, whereas somatoform disorders involve expression of
psychological stress through somatic symptoms.
d. symptoms of dissociative disorders are individually determined and related to
childhood sexual abuse, whereas symptoms of somatoform disorders are culture
bound.
ANS: C
Option 3 is the only fully accurate statement. Option A: Somatoform symptoms are not under
voluntary control. Option B points out a similarity. Option D incorrectly suggests that all
somatoform symptoms are culture bound.
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