Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders Flashcards
Attachment disorders are prevalent in:
Children who have been severely neglected.
Clients with attachment disorders have what characteristics?
Lack of necessary, healthy emotional attachments
T/F: Attachment disorders are relatively rare.
True
What are two attachment disorders within the main disorder?
Reactive Attachment Disorder and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
What attachment disorder involved attachment insecurity, hyper vigilance, and behavior toward caregivers may vary?
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
What is Disinhibited Engagement Disorder?
Inability to form committed intimate social relationships, no preference for caregivers over strangers, excessive comfort seeking and inappropriate contact with strangers.
Counselor considerations for attachment disorders involved what?
- Assess prudently and rule out other disorders
- There is no universally screening assessment
- May be helpful to use a multimodel assessment strategy
- Interview primary caregivers
- Children should be directly observed interacting with their primary caregivers and interacting with strangers to assess behaviors
- Cultural factors
Essential elements of treatment for what disorder includes: Assessment for client safety, proper diagnosis, establishing a secure and nurturing environment, providing empirically-based parent training, addressing family systems issues, and providing therapy that extends into the natural environments of children and family.
Attachment Disorders
What is medication used for when treating clients with attachment disorders?
Co-occurring symptoms: explosive anger, insomnia, depression, anxiety or hyperactivity
Which trauma disorders are serious and debilitating reactions to trauma that endure over time and significantly impair functioning?
Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Results from exposure to trauma that presents threats of severe injury or death is a characteristic of what trauma disorders?
Acute Stress Disorder and PTSD
What are symptoms of ASD and PTSD?
Intrusion, avoidance, negative changes in cognition or mood, and altered states of arousal or reactivity. Can be specified as depersonalization or derealization.
T/F: Different people may experience the same type of traumatic event with different reactions to that event.
True
Concepts of what types of trauma have been proposed?
Developmental Trauma, Complex Trauma, or Complex Trauma Disorder
What must the counselor consider before the assessment begins with trauma patients?
Client safety, attend to cultural factors, and direct sensitivity toward the potential for clients to experience psychological and/or physiological arousal
Conducting an accurate assessment, working as a team (as appropriate) and providing a consistent and safe space with a nurturing relationship are counselor considerations for which trauma disorders?
ASD and PTSD
Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PET), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Stress Inoculation Training (SIT), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma-Focused CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET), Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM; M-TREM), Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TC-TSY), Psychopharmacotherapy are all treatments for which trauma disorders?
ASD and PTSD
What medication is used for ASD and PTSD?
SSRIs in conjunction with therapy
T/F: There has been been medication identified to adequately treat PTSD symptoms.
False
What is the purpose of PET as a treatment for ASD and PTSD?
To help clients recall trauma and associated fears, develop new information about trauma and responses, and learn new coping strategies