CH.5 Trauma & Stress Disorders Flashcards
Stress
- within the body
- negative: injury, breakup
- positive: demand, married, transferring
- macro stressors: major, car accident
- micro: smaller but more long term EX. traffic
PTSD
- traumatic experience and having symptoms 6 months later and duration of 1 month
- anxiety contributes to
- flashback, reliving, prolonged stressed
- cues: sound, smell
- avoidant of reminders, detached, emotional numbing
Adjustment Disorder
3 months of exposure doesn’t last longer than 6 months
EX. moving to a new place
Acute Stress Disorder (Traumatic Stressor)
3 days to 1 month goes under diagnosed
- real potential for death or serious injury
- threats or witnessing of death
Triple Vulnerability
Generalized Vulnerability: shortened alleles more emotion, ultimatum of identity/choice
-Pre existing anxiety or depression , perspective, not having ppl to talk to, ashamed
Treatment
Psychotherapy : Prolonged Exposure therapy, EMDR,
CBT
-gradually reintroducing things
-reciprocal inhibition
Outcome
Exposure
Having the control over behavior = thoughts becoming more minimalised
Psychological Factors affecting medical conditions
Psycho local & medical factor that contribute to one another
Behavior al Medicine
Interdisciplinary: work w many
diff fields of occupations via Heath team
Health Psychology
Principles of psychology to promote health
-substance abuse to help ppl to stop smoking
Problem of reality
Which one came first? Depression or drinking
Sweet and Social Medicine Study
Roles of negitive states:
eating, exercise, risks: smoking , head trauma, sex
-AND how they affect us
Causes of stress
Money, work, economy, family responsibilities., and relationships
General Adaptation Syndrome
- Alarm- shock of news
- Resistance- coping & battling, overwhelmed EX. Hobbies
* Modifying environment to minimize stress - Exhaustion
- immune system compromised
Immune System
Cellular Branch: protects against viruses
Humoral Branch : body humors EX. vaccine
Treatment: Hopelessness
- hope= significance in mortality
- willingness to do things
Treatment: Biofeedback
Operant conditioning: reinforcement, reducing negative tension states
-taking control
Diaphragmatic Breathing: ways to relax
Treatment: Relaxation
Diaphragmatic Breathing: ways to relax
Progressive muscle relaxation: series of tending and releasing muscles
Hypertension
-hostility , anger
Asthma
=Stress
-antigens, pollens, irritants constrict bronchioles for air and cannot release air
