Clinical Approach to Trauma and Stress Disorders

Question 1

What is PTSD

Answer 1

person responds to witnessing/experiencing death/injury to self or others

re-experience event
avoid stimuli associated with trauma
increased arousal

Question 2

how long must symptoms be present for PTSD diagnosis

Answer 2

1 month

Question 3

What are mainstay treatments of PTSD

Answer 3

SSRIs
Cognitive therapy
Increased Substance abuse risk

Question 4

What is acute stress disorder

Answer 4

Symptoms similar to PTSD

Duration 3 days to 1 month

Question 5

What is adjustment disorder

Answer 5

development of emotional/behavioral problems in response to identifiable stressor (within 3 months of stressor)

Question 6

what other forms of adjustment order can be present

Answer 6

with depressed mood
with anxiety 
with mixed anxiety and depressed mood 
with disturbance of conduct 
with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct

Question 7

What is somatic symptom disorder

Answer 7

one or more somatic symptoms that are distressing
excessive thoughts or feelings and behaviors related to symptoms
must be continuously present 6 months

specify with predominant pain

Question 8

Describe conversion disorder

Answer 8

a deficit involving motor or sensory function indicating neruo or general medical problem associated with psychological factors, NOT faked or inflicted, not otherwise fully explained.

Question 9

What is illness anxiety disorder

Answer 9

your back pops and you think you have cancer

preoccupation with having serious illness

care-seeking vs care-avoiding type

Question 10

What is factitious disorder

Answer 10

inflicting injuries to oneself or another for the satisfaction of medical attention or procedures

Question 11

Describe basic dissociative disorders

Answer 11

feeling disconnected from one’s body or inability to recall information about one’s self.