Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorder

Question 1

Exposure to a traumatic event during which an individual experiences or witnesses death or threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury or actual or threatened sexual violation, or learning that a traumatic event happened to a close family member. The person shows difficulty sleeping and recurring intrusive dreams of the event, atleast one month after the occurrence. They are clinically overaroused, easily startled and quick to anger.

Answer 1

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Question 2

When memories occur suddenly, accompanied by strong emotions and the victims find themselves relieving the event.

Answer 2

Flashback

Question 3

A subtype of PTSD describing victims who do not necessarily react with the re-experiencing or hyperarousal characteristic of PTSD. They respond differently to treatment and have less arousal than normal akong with feelings of unreality.

Answer 3

Dissociative

Question 4

Individuals who show few or no symptoms of PTSD immediately or for months after a trauma, but atleast 6 months later and perhaps years afterward develop a full-blown PTSD.

Answer 4

PTSD with delayed onset

Question 5

Acute Stress Disorder occurs within the _ after the trauma.

Answer 5

First month

Question 6

Describe anxious or depressive reactions to life stress that are generally milder than one would see in Acute Stress Disorder and PTSD. Nevertheless unable to cope with the demands of the situation. People who has significant Anxiety or depression associated with an identifiable life stress which does not meet criteria for another anxiety or mood disorder.

Answer 6

Adjustment Disorder

Question 7

It refers to the disturbed and developmentally inappropriate behaviors in children emerging before 5 years of age, in which the child is unable or unwilling to form normal attachment relationships with caregiving adults.

Answer 7

Attachment Disorder

Question 8

What are the possible causes of attachment disorders?

Answer 8

Inadequate or abusive child-rearring practices
Failure to meet the child’s basic emotional needs or basic necessities

Question 9

A disorder where the child very seldom seek out a caregiver for protection, support and nurtutance and seldom respond to offers from caregivers to provide this kind of cate. They have limited positive affect and additional heightened emotionality such as fearfulness and intense sadness.

Answer 9

Reactive Attachment Disorder

Question 10

Early persistent harsh punishment would result in a pattern of behavior in which the child shows no inhibitions to approaching adults, inappropriate intimate behavior by showing a wilingness to immediately accompany an unfamiliar adult figure somewhere without first checking back with a caregiver, which is called _ disorder.

Answer 10

Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder