PTSD Week 8 Flashcards
(23 cards)
results from a single incident.
Acute trauma
is repeated and prolonged, such as
domestic violence or abuse.
Chronic trauma
is exposure to varied and multiple
traumatic events, often of an invasive, interpersonal nature.
Complex trauma
A consistent pattern of inhibited, emotionally withdrawn behavior
toward adult caregivers
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
A pattern of behavior in which a child actively approaches and
interacts with unfamiliar adults.
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
Persistent or recurrent experiences of
feeling detached from, and as if one were an outside observer
of, one’s mental processes or body (e.g., feeling as though one
were in a dream; feeling a sense of unreality of self or body or
of time moving slowly).
Depersonalization:
Persistent or recurrent experiences of unreality
of surroundings (e.g., the world around the individual is
experienced as unreal, dreamlike, distant, or distorted).
Derealization
Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or
sexual violation. Duration of the disturbance (symptoms in Criterion B) is 3 days to 1
month after trauma exposure.
Acute Stress disorder
Development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an
identifiable stressor(s) occurring within 3 months of the onset of the
stressor(s). with specifiers
Adjustment disorder
characterized by intense and persistent longing for the deceased, or preoccupation with thoughts of them.
Difficulty reintegrating into relationships and activities
Emotional numbness
Disbelief about the death
Avoidance of reminders of the death. Lasting 12 months
Prolonged grief disorder
“disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal
integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion,
perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior”
Dissociation
Overview of DIssociative Disorders
– Wide range of levels of dissociation, from simple distraction to
identity fragmentation.
– Aftermath of trauma: Dissociation is a self-protective
mechanism.
– Dissociative symptoms are exacerbated by stressful situations.
Types of Dissociative Symptoms
Depersonalization
derealization
dissociative amnesia
flashbacks
dissociative fugue
inability to recall information, especially autobiographical
information. Not due to neurological issues.
Dissociative amnesia:
travel or bewildered wandering associated with amnesia for
identity or for other important autobiographical information.
Dissociative fugue
Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct
personality states. It involves marked discontinuity in sense of
self and sense of agency, alterations in affect, behavior,
consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-
motor functioning.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
An inability to recall important autobiographical
information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that
is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.
dissociative amnesia
Types of dissociative amnesia
localized amnesia(most common)
selective amnesia(most common)
systematized amnesia
generalized dissociative amnesia
a failure to recall events during a circumscribed period of time
Localized amnesia
the individual can recall some, but not all, of the events during a
circumscribed period of time.
selective amnesia
the individual fails to recall a specific category of important
information (e.g., fragmentary recall of home growing up, but continuous memory for
school; no recall of a violent older sibling; lack of recall of a specific room in the
individual’s childhood home).
Systematized amnesia
involves a complete loss of memory for most or all
of the individual’s life history. Individuals with generalized amnesia may forget
personal identity, lose previous knowledge about the world (e.g., recent political
events, how to use current technology), and less commonly lack access to well-learned
skills (e.g., what contact lenses are and how to put them in).
Generalized dissociative amnesia
