Trauma & Stressor Related Disorders Flashcards
Reactive Attachment Disorder
*Onset before age 5, at least 9months
Disruption in a child’s normal attachment behavior, the result of grossly negligent/maltreatment parenting
Symptoms: emotionally withdrawn from caregivers, minimal social/emotional responsiveness, unexplained irritability, sadness, fearfulness with caregivers
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
- at least 9months
disruption in child’s normal attachment behavior, the result of grossly negligent/maltreatment parenting
Symptoms: pattern of behavior where child actively approaches and interacts with UNFAMILIAR adults, violating cultural boundaries. Child does NOT check back with adult caregivers after venturing away
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence, witnessing or learning of the event
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder like symptoms that immediately follow exposure to a traumatic event and lasts between 3 days and 1 month
Adjustment Disorder
development of emotional or behavioral symptoms within 3 months of a stressor or stressors which result in distress/impaired functioning
What type of therapy works for adjustment disorders
Not usually medication. Therapy usually short term, not longer than 6 months. Solution focused approaches are preferred.
Dissociative Disorders cause disruption in one or more of what 4 areas?
consciousness, memory, identity or perception–can be sudden onset or gradual, transient or chronic, caused by trauma.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
The presence of two district identities that alternately take control of the individual’s behavior accompanied by extensive forgetting o personal information
Dissociative Amnesia
Provide example
an inability to remember important information of a personal nature
“bewildered wandering” – often resolves spontaneously when the individual is removed from the stressful situation
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
episodes of “depersonalization” (sense of being detached from one’s body or mental processes) and/or
“ Derealization” feelings of unreality detached from the environment
*reality testing remains intact
Somatic Symptom Disorder
6 or more months of general preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease (hypochondriac)
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety about being sick or developing a disease (no somatic symptoms present)
Conversion Disorder
loss of functioning in physical or sensory functions–
more common in women, initiated or exacerbated by a stressful event.
(Woman who doesn’t want to hit when angry becomes numb in arms)
Factitious Disorder
repeated feigning, inducing or aggravating psychical and psychological symptoms motivated by a desire to receive medical care and be involved in the medical system
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
angry/irritable mood, defiant behaviors, and vindictiveness that is not typical for the child’s developmental level
