Trauma And Stressor Related Disorders Flashcards
Trauma and stressor-related disorders all share a proximal instigating stressful event followed by
intense emotional responses.
True
Also, a wider range of emotions—such as rage, horror, guilt, and shame, in addition to fear and anxiety—may be implicated in the onset, particularly for posttraumatic stress disorder
True
exposure to a traumatic event during which an individual experiences or witnesses’ death or threatened death,
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Symptoms include Reexperiencing the event through memories and nightmares
True
memories occur suddenly, accompanied by strong emotion, and the victims find themselves
reliving the event
Flashback
Addition in DSM5 in PTSD
“reckless or self-destructive behavior”
This is like PTSD, occurring within the first month after the trauma, but the
different name emphasizes the severe reaction that some people have immediately
Acute Stress Disorder
In Acute Stress Disorder, at least 8 symptoms began or worsened since the trauma and lasted 3 to 31 days
True
These seriously maladaptive patterns are due to inadequate or abusive
child-rearing practices.
Stressor Related Disorder
nadequate child-rearing practices might be caused by frequent
changes of what?
primary caregiver or just neglect in the home
anxious or depressive reactions to life stress that are generally milder than
one would see in acute stress disorder or PTSD
Adjustment Disorder
disturbed and developmentally inappropriate behaviors in children,
emerging before five years of age, in which the child is unable or unwilling to form normal attachment relationships with caregiving adults
Attachment Disorder
The child will very seldom seek out a caregiver for protection, support, and nurturance and will seldom respond to offers from caregivers to
provide this kind of care
Reactive Attachment Disorder
pattern of behavior in which the child shows no inhibitions whatsoever to approaching adults
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
