Trauma And Stress Related Disorders Flashcards
What is the symptom similarity between Acute Stress Disorder and PTSD?
Recurrent/intrusive recollection related to trauma
Frequency of Acute Stress Disorder?
3 days to less then 1 month
What percent of Acute Stress Disorder cases turn into PTSD?
50%
What percent of the population (not specifically military) have PTSD?
9%
1 in 6 people in the military show signs of…
Depression
Anxiety
PTSD
Define a traumatic event:
Exposure to (as a victim or eyewitness) real or perceived possibility of death, serious injury, or sexual violence
What was the name of the patient in the prolonged exposure therapy case for SA?
Edna Foa
Who was the patients therapist?
Bland Frund
What is exposure therapy? And another name for it?
Reliving trauma over and over. Flooding.
What percent of patients show results after 5 weeks of “flooding”?
80%
What is an event that threatens or brings fear to a large number of people?
Mass interpersonal violence trauma
Reproductive- Related Trauma examples
Miscarriages, stillbirths, neonatal deaths
Stillbirth is the death of a child at how many weeks?
20 weeks or layer
Dissociation -
Disturbance in the integration of memory and awareness
What are the three variables related to the development of PTSD?
Individual variables, the stressor, the social response