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Fictitious Disorder

Factitious Disorder by Proxy

Fictitious Disorder

 

Factitious Disorder by Proxy

 

·        = Munchausen‟s By Proxy


·        Criteria:

 

o   Intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs or symptoms in another person under the individual‟s care

o   Motivation is to assume the sick role by proxy

o   No external incentives for the behaviour (economic gain, avoiding legal responsibility)

 

·        Warning signs: child aged 15 months to 6 years, baffling multisystem symptoms, taken to lots of health care providers, over attached parent, no symptoms when parent absent, strange poisonings, reported seizures

 

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