Differentiate Between a Need and a Want

question 87

Essay

Differentiate between a need and a want.

Identify the impact of somatic symptom disorders on family dynamics and patient roles.

Recognize the resistance to psychiatric help in patients with somatic symptom disorders.

Understand why patients with somatic symptom disorders struggle to give up their symptoms.

Identify methods for assisting patients with functional neurological symptoms in daily activities.

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Definitions:

Defence Mechanism

An unconscious tactic employed to shield an individual from the distress caused by thoughts or feelings that are deemed unacceptable.

Identification

A psychological process in which an individual assimilates an aspect, property, or attribute of the other and is transformed, wholly or partially, after the model the other provides.

Self-Esteem

An individual's subjective evaluation of their own worth, or the confidence and satisfaction in oneself.

Defence Mechanism

refers to unconscious psychological strategies used to protect oneself from anxiety or social sanctions and to maintain self-esteem.