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Trauma And PTSD Flashcards

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What is trauma according to DSM

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Exposure to or being threatened with death, serious injury or sexual violation. Directly or indirectly

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How might trauma arise

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War
Crime 
Accidents 
Serious illness
Death
Childbirth
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What is meant by trauma

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Traumatic experiences that are out of the ordinary and threaten ones life and place a heavy burden on their coping recourses

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Trauma increases vulnerability to other mental health problems which include what…..

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Anxiety
Depression
Psychosis 
Substance  misuse
Personality disorder
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Not everyone who experiences trauma develops PTSD. T/F

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True

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What is PTSD?

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Re-experiencing
Avoidance such as places and people
Negative thoughts and feelings
Hyper arousal such as difficulty sleeping and irritability

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What are the 5 natures of trauma memories

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Incoherent
Involuntary - emerge suddenly
Not time tagged - feeling like it’s happening again
Frozen in time - new info doesn’t change memory
Height sensory - Lots of images

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What is meant by depersonalisation

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Feeling unreal and detached from oneself

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What is meant by derealisation

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Feeling detached as if the world is not real

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PTSD may be associated with what other disorders

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Depression
Memory
Psychosis
Anger

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Why might there be a high rate of comorbity in PTSD

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Diagnostic overlap
Associated with other disorders
Shared underlying processes

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What is a predictor of psychosis

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Dissociation

Negative views of oneself and others

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What content related to traumatic experiences

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Hallucinations and delusions

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What are a few social consequences of ptsd

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Withdraw from;
Triggers
Recreational activities 
Own thoughts and feelings 
Intimate relationships
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Name the 3 brain regions associated with ptsd

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Amygdala
PFC
Hippocampus

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How is the amygdala involved

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Activated by threatening or emotional information

17
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How is the PFC involved

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Involved in planning
Prioritising
Rational thoughts
Helps us make make sense of our experiences and put them in context

18
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How is the hippocampus involved

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Involved in creation and storage of memories

Why or with pfc to process experiences and package them into memories we can retrieve later

19
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What does the biological model say about PTSD

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In response to threat the amygdala triggers bodily changes to prepare for the fight or flight response

20
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Memories for the traumatic experiences are stored in what state

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Fragmented instead of being properly filed away in the long term memory

21
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Normally when threat is over what happens

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The hippocampus and the cortex go back to work together and finish off the processing that couldn’t be done in the heat of the moment

22
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In PTSD when memories of traumas are called what happens

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The amygdala is activated

23
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Why do some people develop PTSD and some don’t

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To do with the trauma
To do with the person
Interaction between the two

24
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What can childhood trauma impact

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Attachment and expectation for future relationships
Emotion regulation - ability to tolerate emotion
Mentalization- ability to reflect on oneself and others mental state

25
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What does type 2 trauma affect

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Emotion regulation
Memory
Attention
Self perception

26
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Developmental trauma may affect the threshold for what.

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Activation of fight or flight response and heightened anxiety proneness

27
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What is the 3 stage approach for treatment of PTSD

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Establishing safety
Remembers me and mourning
Reconnecting

28
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What are the aims of trauma focused cognitive therapy

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Elaborate trauma memory
Identify and challenge unhelpful appraisals of trauma and their consequences
Identify and replace unhelpful control strategies

29
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What is experimental reliving

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Detailed recounting of the trauma experience in a safe context

30
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What happens in creating a narrative

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Allows trauma memory to be properly processed and filed away

31
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What is imagery rescripting

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Updating the trauma memory using guided imagery

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