Online Continuing Education Courses

Somatoform Disorders and Malingering

• Define the terms somatoform disorder, hysteria, malingering, organic and non organic disease.
• Contrast and compare organic and non organic disease.
• Contrast and compare somatoform disorder and malingering.
• Identify the most common symptoms described by patients suffering from Somatoform disorder, and develop a strategy to what degree the symptoms may have a somatoform component.