Reactions to Stress and Trauma

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Created Mar 18, 2010
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1	Is it true that PTSD is a "normal response to an abnormal event?" Why or why not?	?
2	Name the different trauma/stress disorders and list whether they are very common, common, or...	PTSD - 7% common Acute Stress Disorder - unknown prevalence in the general population (incidence...
3	Know whether each trauma/stress disorder is more common in men, more common in women, or occurs...	PTSD - both Acute Stress Disorder - unknown Depersonalization disorder - women Adjustment...
4	What are the diagnostic features of post-traumatic stress disorder?	Event is an actual or threatened death or seious injustry, or a treat to physical integrity...
5	What are the diagnostic features of acute stress disorder?	Occurs after a traumatic axperience and must have at least three dissociative symptoms (emotional...
6	What are the diagnostic features of dissociative amnesia?	Psychologically induced memory loss, defined as one or more episodes of inability to recall...
7	What are the diagnostic features of dissociative fugue?	Characterized by amnesia with inability to recall one's past and the assumption of a new identity,...
8	Contrast dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue.	The predominant disturbance of dissociative amnesia is one or more eipsodes of inability to...
9	What are the diagnostic features of depersonalization disorder?	Characterized by feeling detached from one-self or one's surroundings, as though one were an...
10	What are the diagnostic features of dissociative identity disorder?	Characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states, each...
11	What are the diagnostic features of adjustment disorder?	The development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor...
12	How is the stressor in adjustment disorder different or the same as the stressor in PTSD or...	In general, the stressor events in PTSD and ASD are considered to be traumatic in that the...
13	Describe what is known about the psychosocial pathogenesis of dissociation and the various...	The cause of these disorders is unknown. It is psotulated that dissociative and depersonalization...
14	Describe what is known about the neurobiological mechanisms of PTSD.	Research suggests that the sustained levels of high emotional arousal can lead to dysregulation...
15	What general type of psychotherapies work for ASD? For PTSD? For dissociative disorders?	PTSD - CBT to establish a sense of safety and separation from the trauma, providing the patient...
16	What medications may be used to treat PTSD? ASD? The different dissociative disorders?	SSRIs
17	Evidence-based risk factors for development of PTSD?	Severity of the traumatic event Absence of social support post-event Additional life stressors Adverse...
18	Reexperiencing symptoms	Recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections, images, thoughts, perceptions Distressing...
19	Avoidance symptoms	Avoiding thoughts, feelings or conversations associated with the event Avoidinng activities,...
20	Hyperarousal symptoms	Difficulty falling or staying asleep Irritability or outbursts of anger Difficulty concentrating Hypervigilance Exaggerated...
21	Dissociative symptoms	Sense of numbing, detachment or absense of emotional responsiveness Reduced awareness or surroundings Derealization Depersonalization Dissociative...