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Question 1

involves actual/threatened death or serious injury

Answer 1

Traumatic stressor

Question 2

situations in which a person perceives that environmental demands exceed one’s resources to cope

Answer 2

Non-traumatic stressor

Question 3

exposure to a traumatic stressor; actual or threatened, witnessed or learned about event

Answer 3

Posttraumatic Stress DIsorder

Question 4

> 1 symptom from 4 categories must develop for PTSD

Answer 4

Intrusion symptoms (ex: dream)
Avoidance symptoms (ex: places)
Negative Alterations in Cognitions and Mood (neg. beliefs)
Alterations in Arousal and Reactivity (sleep disturbance)

Question 5

symptoms must last >1 month, begin within 3 mos but can begin anytime, usually occur in young adults via (internal or external threats)

Answer 5

Posttraumatic Stress DIsorder

Question 6

exposure to a traumatic stressor; PTSD-like symptoms, last 3 days to 1 month after exposure

Answer 6

Acute Stress Disorder

Question 7

PTSD/ASD Neuoanatomical correlates

Answer 7

HYPERresponsive amygdala
UNDERresponsive prefrontal cortex
REDUCED volume and dysfunction hippocampus

Question 8

PTSD/ASD treatment:

supportive therapy, safe environment to express feelings

behavioral therapy to address specific problematic behaviors

Answer 8

Psychotherapy

Question 9

PTSD/ASD treatment:

medications used to reduce emotionality

Answer 9

Antidepressants

Question 10

acute onset and brieg duration; disproportional emotional/behavioral symptoms in direct response to an identifiable psychosocial stressor

Answer 10

Adjustment Disorder

Question 11

coping strategies, support groups, hospitalization and psychotropic medications are treatments for what disorder

Answer 11

Adjustment Disorder

Question 12

disorder form direct result of pathogenic care early in life

Answer 12

Stressor/Trauma-Related Disorders

Question 13

inhibited and emotionally withdrawn behavior towards adult caregivers

Answer 13

Reactive Attachment Disorder

Question 14

overly familiar behavior with relative strangers

Answer 14

Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder

Question 15

splitting off from conscious awareness an aspect of self usually as a coping strategy for stress

Answer 15

Dissociation

Question 16

memory loss of perosnal information

Answer 16

Dissociative Amnesia

Question 17

total loss of personal memory during a certain period

Answer 17

Localized Dissociative Amnesia

Question 18

some recall of personal memories during a certain period

Answer 18

Selective Dissociative Amnesia

Question 19

loss of personal memory of entire life up to and including event

Answer 19

Generalized Dissociative Amnesia

Question 20

purposeful travel or bewildered wandering associated with amnesia for identity (hours to days)

Answer 20

Dissociative Amnesia w/ Fugue

Question 21

organically-based amnesia

Answer 21

Differential Dissociative Amnesia

Question 22

pt. will have difficulty learning new information (anterograde memory loss) in addition to past memory loss

Answer 22

Organic Basis (Differential Dissociative Amnesia)

Question 23

pt. learns new infromation well; only past memory loss (retrograde memory loss) will be present

Answer 23

Psychological Basis (Differential Dissociative Amnesia)

Question 24

> 2 distinct personalities and an ability to recall personal information

Answer 24

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Question 25

experiences of unreality, detachment or being an outside observer with self

Answer 25

Depersonalization Disorder

Question 26

experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings

Answer 26

Derealization Disorder

Question 27

reality testing remains intact and symptoms result in funcitonal impairment for which disorders

Answer 27

Depersonalization & Derealization

Question 28

cause unknow, no structural brain damage accounting for memory loss and primarily a dysfuntion of retrieving memories

Answer 28

Amnesia

Question 29

Psychotherapy (CBT) or hypnosis to help recover memories

Answer 29

Treatment of Dissociative Disorders