Trauma & Stress-Related Disorder

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Subcategory of PTSD: through memories, dreams, flashbacks, or reactions to external cues about the event and therefore avoids stimuli associated with the trauma.

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Reexperiencing Trauma

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Subcategory of PTSD: The person seeks comfort, safety, and security, but can actually become increasingly isolated over time, which can heighten the negative feelings he or she was trying to avoid.

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Negative Cognition or Thoughts

Question 2

Subcategory of PTSD: He or she reports losing a sense of connection and control over his or her life.

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Avoidance

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Subcategory of PTSD: The victim feels a numbing of general responsiveness and shows persistent signs of increased arousal such as insomnia, hyperarousal or hypervigilance, irritability, or angry outbursts.

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Hyperarousal

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The person has more than the expected difficulty coping with or assimilating the event into his or her life

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Adjustment Disorder

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This occurs after a traumatic event and is characterized by reexperiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal that occur from 3 days to 4 weeks following a trauma.
It can be a precursor to PTSD.

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Acute Stress Disorder

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Occurs before the age of 5 in response to the trauma of child abuse or neglect, called grossly pathogenic care.

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Reactive Attachment Disorder

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Exhibits unselective socialization, allowing or tolerating social interaction with caregivers and strangers alike.

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Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder

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is a subconscious defense mechanism that helps a person protect his or her emotional self from recognizing the full effects of some horrific or traumatic event by allowing the mind to forget or remove itself from the painful situation or memory.

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Dissociative Disorder

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The client cannot remember important personal information.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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The client displays two or more distinct identities or personality.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Persistent or recurrent feeling of being detached from his or her mental processes or body

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Depersonalization

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sensation of being in a dream-like state in which the environment seems foggy or unreal

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Derealization