Trauma and Stressor related Disorders

Question 1

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Answer 1

• DC: Actual or threatened death or serious injury or sexual violence- may be direct, witnessing or learning of and event to a close family member or friend.
• Onset- usually within 3 months but anytime in future is possible, young adults fulnerable or people who have life threatening medical events
• Treatment (forASD too) psychotherapy and meds

Question 2

Acute Stress Disorder

Answer 2

• Exposure to traumatic stressor- death injury sexual violence
• multiple PTSD symptom categories
• duration is 3 days to 1 month after trauma exposure

Question 3

Adjustment Disorder

Answer 3

• DC- disproportional emotional/behavioral symptom due to identifiable stressor, acute onset and brief duration (develop within 3 months of exposure and resolve within 6 months of termination.)
• should not meet criteria of MDD
• Treatment: crisis intervention, hospitalization, psychotropic medications

Question 4

PTSD Symptoms

Answer 4

• 4 Intrusion symptoms can develop at anytime -
  
  • dreams
  • recollections
  • feeling event reoccur
  • psychological or physiological distress when encounters symbols
• avoidance symptoms
• Negative alteration in cognistion and mood-
  
  • negative beliefs or expctations
  • negative emotional states
  • inability to experience positive emotion
  • diminihsed interest participation in activities
  • detachment estrangement from others
  • dissocioative amnesia
• alteration in arousal or activity
  
  • sleep disturbance
  • irritable and angry outbursts,
  • reckless aor self destructive behavior
  • concentrations problems,
  • hypervigilance
  • exaggerated startle repsonse