Test 2 PTSD Flashcards
Subcategories of SXS (5)
- Trauma
- Intrusion
- Avoidance
- Negative alterations in cognitions and mood
- Marked alterations in arousal and reactivity
Dissociative State
- Defense and coping mechanism:
Aids in minimizing and tolerating stress, boredom or conflict - Detachment from reality
- Exists on a continuum:
Describes common events such as daydreaming while driving
Dissociative SXS
- Depersonalization
- Derealization
-> Both detached from reality
Depersonalization def
Feel disconnected from yourself
-> Feels like not controlling your body/movements
Derealization def
Feel disconnected from the environment
-> Feels like environment is not real/dream-like
Screening Questions (2)
- Did you experience a life-threatening event?
- If yes, Do memories of this event interfere with your life?
PTSD and NCRMD/NGRI
Successful= Evidence that the defendant was experiencing flashbacks/dissociative state during offence
Charles G. Head case
- Vietnam war vet
- Killed someone
- For 10 yrs-> had nightmares, slept with a gun under his pillow, very irritable, no alcohol
- Doctor records of PTSD
- Wife needs a break-> goes to her brother’s house
- Charles shows up-> brother slams the door after telling Charles to leave
= Triggers flashback state for Charles and he shoots and kill the brother
-> Got NCRMD because of the evidence of PSTD-> M’N: 1. Disease of mind= PTSD
2. Didn’t understand quality of
act= Flashback state
FULL ACQUITTAL
Family reactions/Character witness to:
- More irritable
- Has gun close
- Nightmares/Insomnia
- Alcohol abuse
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Abuse in intimate relationships.
Everyone regardless of gender or sexual orientation or marital status can experience IPV
Why do abused partners stay in abusive relationship?
- Believes that the violence was her fault
- Fears for her life and/or her children’s life
- Irrational belief that the abuser is omnipresent
- Trauma-bond
Trauma Bond def
Is due to learned helplessness, bc of unsuccessful attempts to leave
And Intermittent reinforcement-> stay because you know it will get better (in the honeymoon phase)
First signs/Red flags
- Gaslighting
- Love Bombing
R.v Lavallée Case (1990)
- Angelique Lavallee has been in a common-law relationship w Rust for a few years
- Rust is physically abusive
- Big party at their place where Rust accuses Lavallee of flirting w another man
- Rust starts abusing her in front of the party, which all leave
- She hides in a closet
- Threatens her w a gun
- Hands her the gun and then laughs about it
- Lavallee kills Rust
-> Originally charged w 2nd degree murder, but acquitted on self-defense
