Trauma And PTSD Flashcards
What is trauma according to DSM
Exposure to or being threatened with death, serious injury or sexual violation. Directly or indirectly
How might trauma arise
War Crime Accidents Serious illness Death Childbirth
What is meant by trauma
Traumatic experiences that are out of the ordinary and threaten ones life and place a heavy burden on their coping recourses
Trauma increases vulnerability to other mental health problems which include what…..
Anxiety Depression Psychosis Substance misuse Personality disorder
Not everyone who experiences trauma develops PTSD. T/F
True
What is PTSD?
Re-experiencing
Avoidance such as places and people
Negative thoughts and feelings
Hyper arousal such as difficulty sleeping and irritability
What are the 5 natures of trauma memories
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
What is meant by depersonalisation
Feeling unreal and detached from oneself
What is meant by derealisation
Feeling detached as if the world is not real
PTSD may be associated with what other disorders
Depression
Memory
Psychosis
Anger
Why might there be a high rate of comorbity in PTSD
Diagnostic overlap
Associated with other disorders
Shared underlying processes
What is a predictor of psychosis
Dissociation
Negative views of oneself and others
What content related to traumatic experiences
Hallucinations and delusions
What are a few social consequences of ptsd
Withdraw from; Triggers Recreational activities Own thoughts and feelings Intimate relationships
Name the 3 brain regions associated with ptsd
Amygdala
PFC
Hippocampus
How is the amygdala involved
Activated by threatening or emotional information
How is the PFC involved
Involved in planning
Prioritising
Rational thoughts
Helps us make make sense of our experiences and put them in context
How is the hippocampus involved
Involved in creation and storage of memories
Why or with pfc to process experiences and package them into memories we can retrieve later
What does the biological model say about PTSD
In response to threat the amygdala triggers bodily changes to prepare for the fight or flight response
Memories for the traumatic experiences are stored in what state
Fragmented instead of being properly filed away in the long term memory
Normally when threat is over what happens
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
In PTSD when memories of traumas are called what happens
The amygdala is activated
Why do some people develop PTSD and some don’t
To do with the trauma
To do with the person
Interaction between the two
What can childhood trauma impact
Attachment and expectation for future relationships
Emotion regulation - ability to tolerate emotion
Mentalization- ability to reflect on oneself and others mental state
