Chapter 7 - PTSD Flashcards
Symptoms of Complex PTSD
SAD - Somatization, Affect Dysregulation, and Dissociation
Definition of Complex PTSD
results from repeated exposure to traumatic situations, usually involving personal victimization during key developmental stages.
Historical Synonyms of PTSD
railway spine, compensation neurosis, shell shock, combat fatigue, soldier’s heart, neurasthenia, war neurosis, nostalgia
Definition of PTSD
mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event, characterized by flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety, and uncontrollable thoughts about the event
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD)
a condition characterized by severe stress symptoms that occur immediately after a traumatic event, called peritraumatic symptoms, and can be a precursor to PTSD.
ASD is diagnosed when traumatic stress symptoms persist for 3 to 30 days post-event, with a focus on dissociative symptoms.
Individual Intervention Stages
1) Emergency/Outcry Phase, 2) Extinguishing Intrusive Images, 3) Numbing/Denial and Reexperiencing, 4) Reflective Transition Phase, and 5) Integration
Type I Childhood Trauma
(SINGLE EVENT)
Type I events are characterized by fully detailed, etched-in memories, omens such as retrospective rumination, cognitive reappraisals, reasons, misperceptions, and mistiming of the event.
Other responses to type I trauma are a sense of a foreshortened future, reenactment, physical responses, displacement, transposition
Type II Childhood Trauma
(REPEATED ORDEALS)
Results in developing defensive and coping strategies to ward off the repeated assaults on integrity.
Type II trauma victims, like abused or refugee children, exhibit massive denial, psychic numbing, and avoidance of psychological intimacy.
These children often experience deep-seated rage, leading to patterns of aggression and emotional distancing in adulthood.
