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| what types of stressors cause cause PTSD? |
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| Only stressors that present a serious threat to life or limb can precipitate a traumatic stress disorder |
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| temporary experieince of disconnection from time, place, or person |
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| Are people experiencing dissociative symptoms more likely to have PTSD? |
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| what is the best predictor of PTSD? |
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| failure of acute symptoms to begin to resolve after 10-14 days |
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| What are intrusive symptoms? |
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| intense reexperiencing of part of the tramatic event |
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| give an example of an intrinsic symptom? |
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| vivid memories triggered by reminders, sensations associated like smells/sounds, daydream or nightmare, physical reactions as if trauma were happening again, and flashbacks |
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| What is the hippocampus/amydala theory? |
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| emotional state of an individual is linked with sensory experiences in neural ciruclts through the A. Sencory experiences take on an EMO value as they are laid down in memory. In parallel, hippocampal processes the context of the sensory imputs--the time, space, and relationships to other events. The Hippo contains inbibitory, GC receptors. IN HIGH STRESS, HIGH CIRTICOL, A processing predominates over inhibited hippo pathways, producing traumatic memories that are long on vivid sensations and highly charged emo reactions and short on context. |
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| What is the psychological theory |
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| memories are so intense that they have to be processed repeatedly until an individual attains a feeling of mastery over the tramatic event. Each reliving is another attempt to put the trauma in perspective along with other events in a person's life |
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| What are 2 types of avoidance symptoms? |
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| those specific to traumatic events and those that generalize over time |
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| what are instinctive fears? |
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| these are responses innate to all humans/animals, driving the avoidance of trauma-specific stumuli related to the stressor. They can result in avoidant symptoms |
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| what does traumatic stress produce in patients? |
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| it produces a persistant state of hyperarousal with patients appearing to be on constant alert for potential threats. |
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| Wha are the 5 DSM components of PTSD? |
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| Exposure, reexperiencing, avoidance, arousal, duration, functioning. |
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| what are other responses to a traumatic event besides ASD (acute stress disorder) and PTSD? |
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| depressive disorders, substance-related disorders, somatization, personality changes, and family violence increases. AS WELL AS RESISTANCE |
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| presence of dissociative symptoms that occur during or immediately after the traumatic event. These are followed by intrusive, avoidant, and arousal symptoms that persist for more than 2 days but resolve within a month |
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| what is the main differency between ASD and PTSD? |
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| ASD is less than 1 month. PTSD must last more than 1 month |
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| Are extraverts or intraverts less susceptible to PTSD? |
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| Does the impact of experience depend on the indvs? response to previous trama? |
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| yes--those who weathered the earlier incidents well showed a positive adaptive responce to subsequent exposures, where are those with a poor previous outcome fared badly again. |
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| disregulation, 2 footed driver syndrome (foot on gas and brake at same time)--no longer nice smooth reponse. you'll have an increased urinary NE/EPI, with a down regulation of alpha adrenergic receptors. and a decreased 24 hour cortisol secretion. However, higher levels of blood-cortisol will inhibit hoppocampus |
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| what is first line therapy for PTSD? |
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