PTSD Week 8

Question 1

results from a single incident.

Answer 1

Acute trauma

Question 2

is repeated and prolonged, such as
domestic violence or abuse.

Answer 2

Chronic trauma

Question 3

is exposure to varied and multiple
traumatic events, often of an invasive, interpersonal nature.

Answer 3

Complex trauma

Question 4

A consistent pattern of inhibited, emotionally withdrawn behavior
toward adult caregivers

Answer 4

Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)

Question 5

A pattern of behavior in which a child actively approaches and
interacts with unfamiliar adults.

Answer 5

Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder

Question 6

Persistent or recurrent experiences of
feeling detached from, and as if one were an outside observer
of, one’s mental processes or body (e.g., feeling as though one
were in a dream; feeling a sense of unreality of self or body or
of time moving slowly).

Answer 6

Depersonalization:

Question 7

Persistent or recurrent experiences of unreality
of surroundings (e.g., the world around the individual is
experienced as unreal, dreamlike, distant, or distorted).

Answer 7

Derealization

Question 8

Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or
sexual violation. Duration of the disturbance (symptoms in Criterion B) is 3 days to 1
month after trauma exposure.

Answer 8

Acute Stress disorder

Question 9

Development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an
identifiable stressor(s) occurring within 3 months of the onset of the
stressor(s). with specifiers

Answer 9

Adjustment disorder

Question 10

characterized by intense and persistent longing for the deceased, or preoccupation with thoughts of them.
Difficulty reintegrating into relationships and activities
Emotional numbness
Disbelief about the death
Avoidance of reminders of the death. Lasting 12 months

Answer 10

Prolonged grief disorder

Question 11

“disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal
integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion,
perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior”

Answer 11

Dissociation

Question 12

Overview of DIssociative Disorders

Answer 12

– Wide range of levels of dissociation, from simple distraction to
identity fragmentation.
– Aftermath of trauma: Dissociation is a self-protective
mechanism.
– Dissociative symptoms are exacerbated by stressful situations.

Question 13

Types of Dissociative Symptoms

Answer 13

Depersonalization
derealization
dissociative amnesia
flashbacks
dissociative fugue

Question 14

inability to recall information, especially autobiographical
information. Not due to neurological issues.

Answer 14

Dissociative amnesia:

Question 15

travel or bewildered wandering associated with amnesia for
identity or for other important autobiographical information.

Answer 15

Dissociative fugue

Question 16

Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct
personality states. It involves marked discontinuity in sense of
self and sense of agency, alterations in affect, behavior,
consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-
motor functioning.

Answer 16

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Question 17

An inability to recall important autobiographical
information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that
is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.

Answer 17

dissociative amnesia

Question 18

Types of dissociative amnesia

Answer 18

localized amnesia(most common)
selective amnesia(most common)
systematized amnesia
generalized dissociative amnesia

Question 19

a failure to recall events during a circumscribed period of time

Answer 19

Localized amnesia

Question 20

the individual can recall some, but not all, of the events during a
circumscribed period of time.

Answer 20

selective amnesia

Question 21

the individual fails to recall a specific category of important
information (e.g., fragmentary recall of home growing up, but continuous memory for
school; no recall of a violent older sibling; lack of recall of a specific room in the
individual’s childhood home).

Answer 21

Systematized amnesia

Question 22

involves a complete loss of memory for most or all
of the individual’s life history. Individuals with generalized amnesia may forget
personal identity, lose previous knowledge about the world (e.g., recent political
events, how to use current technology), and less commonly lack access to well-learned
skills (e.g., what contact lenses are and how to put them in).

Answer 22

Generalized dissociative amnesia