W7 - PTSD Flashcards
What are the different types of PTSD?
- Acute PTSD: less than 3m
- Chronic PTSD: longer than 6m
- Delayed onset
- Complex PTSD: Disorders of extreme stress not otherwise identified
What are some trauma categories?
- Human v. non-human
- sudden onset (accident)
- short duration
- repeated over time
What are trauma categories by experience?
- Primary: direct experience
- Secondary: witnessing event
- Tertiary: learning about event
What are some common responses to trauma?
- Existenial impact (emptiness)
- depression
- traumatic grief
- anxiety
- stress disorders
- dissassociation
DSM- V PTSD
a: exposure to actual/threatened death
b: presence of 1 + intrusion symptoms associated with events
c: persistence avoidance of stimuli
d: negative alterations of mood
e: marked alterations in arousal in cognition/mood
f: duration of disturbance more than 1 month
g: disturbance causes clinically significant distress
h: disturbance not associated with anything else.
Processing a Catestrophic Event: A working Model
- Nature of experience
- individual characteristics
- recovery environment
- post traumatic processing
Guidelines for talking with PTSD sufferer
- description of factual events
- expression of feelings and reactions
- discussion and validation of coping strategies
- termination
What is trauma informed care?
- Safe and supportive environment
- understanding of feelings/symptoms
- continued collaboration
- an understanding of symptoms/survival responses
- a view of trauma as a fundamental experience
What are the 5 Post Disaster Early Intervention Principles?
- promote sense of safety
- promote calm
- promote social connections
- promote self-efficacy
- promote hope
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
- Acess the impact
- identify immediate issue
- use diffusing to allow for ventilation of thoughts
- predicts events/reactions to come
- conduct a systematic review of the critical incident
- brief closure of the incident
- debrief
Critical Incident Stress Management
- pre-crisis preparation
- disaster or large scale incident/ support programs
- diffusing
- C.I.S.D
- One on one crisis intervention
- Family crisis intervention
7 follow up/referral mechanisms
