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Trauma and stress disorders Flashcards

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What are the four major reactions to trauma?

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  • Anxiety and fear
  • Dysphoria and anhedonia
  • Anger and aggression
  • Dissociation
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What is reactive attachment disorder?

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  • Pattern of inhibited and emotionally withdrawn behavior toward adult caregivers, after a child has experience extreme of insufficient care
  • Persistent social and emotional disturbance
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What causes reactive attachment disorder? (3)

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  • Lack of emotional needs for comfort, stimulation, and affection
  • Repeated changes in primary caregivers
  • Living in settings with limited opportunities to form attachments with caregivers
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True or false: developmental delays commonly occur with reactive attachment disorders

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True

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What indicates a better prognosis with reactive attachment disorder? (2)

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With excellent caregiving environment following the neglect, and help received at an earlier age

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What is disinhibited social engagement disorder? What are the 4 characteristics of their behavior?

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  • Child actively approaches and interacts with unfamiliar adults, and exhibits 2+ of:
  • Lack of reticence in approaching
  • Overly familiar verbal or physical behavior
  • Diminished checking with adult caregiver
  • Willingness to go off with unfamiliar adult w/o hesitation
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What percent of severely neglected kids develop disinhibited social engagement?

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20%

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Which is more common: disinhibited social engagement disorder or reactive attachment disorder? Which has a worse prognosis?

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Disinhibited social engagement disorder x2

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At what age will disinhibited social engagement disorder not develop (assuming adequate care prior to that point)?

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If older than 2 years

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Which is an externalizing and which an internalizing response to a lack of appropriate care: disinhibited social engagement disorder and reactive attachment disorder?

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Internalizing = RAD
Externalizing = DSED
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What is the treatment for RAD or DSED? (2)

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  • Family therapy if appropriate

- Psychosocial interventions to address unmet basic needs

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What are the diagnostic criteria for PTSD, in terms of exposures (4)?

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Exposure to:

  • Direct experience
  • Direct witness it
  • Learning event occurred to a close person
  • Repeated personal exposure to aversive details of traumatic events
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What are the symptoms of PTSD? (5)

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  • Recurrent intrusive memories, dreams or dissociated flashbacks
  • Psychological distress with internal or external cues
  • Physiological rxns to internal or external cues
  • Avoidance of memories
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What are the five major categories of symptoms for PTSD?

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  1. exposure to actual or threatened death etc
  2. Intrusive symptoms
  3. Persistent avoidance
  4. Negative alterations in cognitions
  5. Alterations in arousal and reactivity
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What are the negative alterations in cognition and mood associated with PTSD? (6)

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  • Unable to recall important aspects of trauma
  • Exaggerated negative beliefs/expectations
  • Distorted cognitions about cause or consequences
  • Persistent negative emotional state
  • Feelings of estrangement/detachment
  • Inability to experience positive emotions
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What is the duration for PTSD to meet the diagnostic criteria?

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More than 1 month

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What are the two major dissociative symptoms with PTSD?

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  • Depersonalization (you’re not human)

- Derealization (nothing is real)

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PTSD can occur at any age after what?

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1 year

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Symptoms of PTSD usually occur within what timeframe after the event?

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3 months, but can be years

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What are the risk factors for PTSD?

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  • Severity/duration of trauma

- Prior exposure to trauma

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Is female or male sex a risk factor for the development of PTSD?

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Female

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Is lower or higher intelligence a risk factor for PTSD? Higher or lower income?

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Lower intelligence

Lower income

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What fraction of adults with PTSD will have remission within 12 months?

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1/2

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What is the treatment for PTSD in terms of trauma focused CBT? (3)

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Trauma focused CBT:

  • anxiety management
  • Confrontation of traumatic memories
  • Reworking distorted cognitions
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What is the pharmacotherapy for PTSD?

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  • SSRIs/SNRIs

- Prazosin (reduces dreams)

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What is the role of benzos in the treatment for PTSD?

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Do not use

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What is the foundation for psychotherapy for PTSD?

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Exposing people to the trauma in a therapeutic manner

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What is the MOA of prazosin? What is the use of treatment in PTSD?

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  • Alpha-1 antagonist

- Reduces nightmares

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Within what timeframe is starting of treatment and early social support particularly effective in treating PTSD?

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Within 3 months

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Is a high level of functioning pre-trauma a good or bad prognostic indicator for PTSD?

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Good

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What is the central characteristic for complex PTSD?

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Chronic trauma involving totalitarian control for an extended period of time (months to years)

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What are the cognitive effects of complex PTSD?

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Intense preoccupation with the perpetrator (attachment to the perpetrator)

33
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What are the affected regulation problems with complex PTSD?

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Persistent dysphoria–chronic suicidality

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What are the consciousness problems with complex PTSD?

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Amnesia for trauma experience; transient dissociative episodes
-Feel crazy

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What are the self perception problems with complex PTSD?

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Helplessness, shame and guilt

Defiled, stigmatized, an unlike other people

36
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What should never be done with complex PTSD?

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Try to control them

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What is the appropriate approach to complex PTSD?

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Gentle, and supportive

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What type of medical history is characteristic for complex PTSD?

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A lot of various somatic complaints, with confusing presentations

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What is acute stress disorder?

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Timeframe of anxiety within 1 month following event–more than 1 month = PTSD

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What are the general categories of acute stress disorder diagnostic criteria?

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  1. Intrusive symptoms
  2. Negative mood
  3. Dissociative symptoms
  4. Avoidance
  5. Arousal symptoms
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What is the timeframe in which acute stress disorder occurs in?

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3 days after event to less than 1 month (more than 1 month is PTSD)

42
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What percent of people get acute stress disorder following exposure to trauma? When does it increase markedly?

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Less than 20%

If done on purpose, much more prevalent

43
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What is the treatment for acute stress disorder?

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Similar to PTSD–secondary prevention of PTSD

44
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What are the current goals with acute stress disorder?

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Normalize symptoms and reactions, and facilitate positive coping strategies

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What are adjustment disorders?

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Emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressors (but not significant trauma) occurring within 3 months of stressors onset

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What are the s/sx of adjustment disorder? (2)

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  • Distress is out of proportion to the severity or intensity

- impairment in social work

47
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When is the timeframe for diagnosing adjustment disorder?

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Must RESOLVE within 6 months

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What is the general prognosis with adjustment disorders?

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Generally good

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What is the prevalence of adjustment disorders?

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What is the role of support groups with adjustment disorders?

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What is the treatment for adjustment disorder? (3)

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Psychotherapy

  • reduce the stressor
  • improving healthy coping
  • Optimize support
52
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How can you encourage resilience with adjustment disorders?

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  • Faith or spirituality
  • humor
  • Role models
  • Social support
  • Life’s mission
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What are dissociative disorders? (BASK model)

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Separation of:

  • Behavior
  • Affect
  • Sensation
  • Knowledge
54
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True or false: some amount of dissociation can be normal

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What is the stepwise examples of dissociation?

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  • Finding yourself dressed in clothes you don’t remember putting on
  • Feeling as though you are standing next to yourself, watching
  • Looking in a mirror and not recognizing yourself
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What is dissociative identity disorder? (3)

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  • Disruption of identity–2 or more personality states involving discontinuity in sense of self and agency (split personality disorder)
  • Gaps in recall of events
  • Distress and/or impairment across one’s life
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What must you always be certain of prior to diagnosing dissociative identity disorder?

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Not a normal part of accepted cultural or religious practices

58
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What is dissociative personality disorder strongly associated with?

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Child abuse

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True or false: auditory hallucinations is an exclusion criteria for dissociative personality disorder

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False–common and may be confused with psychosis

Antipsychotics will not affect this however

60
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What is the usual female presentation of dissociative identity disorders? Males?

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Females = dissociative states

Males = violent or criminal

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What is the usual cause of dissociative disorder?

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Strongly associated with severe child abuse

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What are the 3 major s/sx of reactive attachment disorder?

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  • Minimal social/environmental responsiveness to others
  • Limited positive affect
  • Unexplained irritability/sadness/fearfulness
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How old must a child be to be diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder?

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9 months, and began before 5

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What causes disinhibited social engagement disorder?

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Lack of a consistent caregiver or not having emotional needs met

65
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What are the two major ways to distinguish between auditory hallucinations 2/2 dissociative personality disorder, and those from psychosis?

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Psychosis = voices from outside, and will respond to antipsychotics

Dissociative personality disorder = voices from within, and will not response to antipsychotics

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What is the treatment for dissociative personality disorder?

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  • Standard PTSD treatment

- Psychotherapy

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What is dissociative amnesia? What must be true for this to be diagnosed?

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  • Inability to recall important autobiographical info, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature
  • is distressing
68
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What is the treatment for generalized amnesia?

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Similar to DID

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What is depersonalization disorder?

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Being an outside observer with respect to one’s own thoughts or feelings

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What is derealization disorder?

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Being outside observer with respect to surroundings

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True or false: In both derealization and depersonalization disorders, reality testing is not intact

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False–is intact

72
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True or false: occasional feelings of derealization or depersonalization is common

73
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What is the mean age of onset of derealization or depersonalization disorder?

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What is the prevalence of of derealization or depersonalization disorder

75
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Which gender is more affected with of derealization or depersonalization disorder?

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What is the common history prior to of derealization or depersonalization disorder?

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Emotional abuse and neglect

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What is the treatment for of derealization or depersonalization disorder?

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No controlled trials for psychotherapy are available

Lamotrigine?

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