Week 10 - Trauma and stressor-related disorders Flashcards
What are some persistent negative effects of trauma?
Intense fear
Terror
Loss of hope
Anxiety
Guilt
Shame
Bereavement
Feelings of threat
Hyper arousal
What are the trauma and stressor-related disorders?
PTSD
Acute stress disorder (ASD)
Adjustment disorders
Reactive attachment disorder (RAD)
Disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED)
Unclassified and unspecified trauma disorder
What are trauma related pathologies?
PTSD
ASD
How do PTSD and ASD differ?
PTSD diagnosis requires meeting a certain number of symptoms within established clusters. For ASD, symptoms are not classified within clusters
PTSD includes non-fear based symptoms
PTSD includes a dissociative subtype
How are ASD and PTSD alike?
Share the same requirement for exposure to a traumatic event
Many symptoms are similar
What are the trauma-focused psychotherapies with the strongest evidence for treating PTSD and ASD?
Prolonged exposure (PE)
Cognitive processing therapy (CPT)
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)
What is the James-Lange theory?
Emotion inducing stimulus triggers specific physiological and behavioural responses in a person
Stimuli > Physiological and behavioural responses > Interpretation of physiological responses
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
A stimulus elicits physiological and behavioural responses the same time as the interpretation of the stimulus
Stimuli > physiological and behavioural responses
Emotional experience
What interconnections between brain structures moderate perception and expression of emotions?
Limbic system and cortex
Hypothalamus regulates many functions etc. Pituitary function
Hippocampus involved in memory consolidation
Amygdale linkled through effects of limbic systm on cortex
WHat is Papez’ argument for the neurological basis of emotion?
Emotional states expressed through effect of limbic structures on hypothalamus
Emotion is experienced through effect of limbic system on cortex
What is the low road?
Thalamus to amygdala
What is the high road?
Thalamus to sensory cortex to amygdala
