Polotics Of Clinical Psychology Flashcards
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Who decides who is suffering from a mental disorder?
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- diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM)
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What was the piano man suffering from?
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- retrograde amnesia
- post traumatic stress disorder
- autism
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What is the interactive nature of PTSD?
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- military psychologists always recognised that horrific events could trigger actute stress symptoms
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The ratification of PTSD?
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as a formal psychiatric disorder in the DSM triggered an outpouring if research on trauma, the founding of the international society for traumatic stress studies
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What was the original DSM criteria for DSM III 1980?
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Definition exposure to a traumatic stressor as a casual feature in the development of PTSD
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What are the three symptoms caused by exposure to the stressor?
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- re experiencing symptoms (flashbacks nightmares)
- numbing symptoms (blunted emotions)
- miscellaneous symptoms ( sleep disturbance, memory and concentration impairment)
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Diagnosising PTSD 1994 version?
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Symptom for all 3 symptom clusters
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Diagnosing PTSD 2013
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- directly experiencing traumatic events
- witnessing in person the events as it occurred to others
- learning that the traumatic events occurred to a closed family member
- expressing repeated of extreme exposure to avasive detail
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Does trauma cause PTSD?
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Between 5 and 30% of people develop PTSD in response to potentially traumatic experiences
