Chapter 7 - Trauma and Dissociation Flashcards
What is PTSD
Emotional disorder that can follow experience or witness of actual or threat of: death, serious injury, sexual violation
How does time affect PTSD diagnosis
diagnosis can’t be made until after 1 month
If longer than 3 - considered chronic
What is acute stress disorder
severe reaction immediately following trauma that allows for treatment before PTSD prognosis
What are the most common traumas in PTSD
combat and sexual assault
PTSD causes
Trauma
Predisposition to stress and anxiety
lack of social support
PTSD treatment
face original trauma to develop coping strategies
Prolonged exposure therapy - develop narrative
What are the 2 types of dissociative disorders
Depersonalization - lose sens of own reality
Derealiazation - lose sense of reality of external world
What is Depersonalization-Derealization disorder
severe feelings of unreality occuring in .8-2.8% of pop
What is general amnesia
unable to remember anything about life or extended period recently
what is specific amnesia
unable to remember specific event during specific period
What is dissociative fugue
individual leaves and wakes up unable to remember how they got somewhere and what they did
Dissociative amnesia prevalence
1.8-7.3%
most prevalent dissociative disorder
What is DID
adopt different identities that co-exist in same body
What is the average number of alters
15
DID Onset
childhood
