PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Neurosurgery, Cognitive Processing Therapy
17 Oct 2016
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Similar diagnostic criteria, may have same vulnerability or cause, one may lead into another. Ptsd is when symptoms last longer than one month, acute stress disorder is less than 1 month. Used to be part of anxiety disorder in dsm-4. Person felt that they had no choice but to repeat compulsions to cope with the obsession of cleanliness. First goal of cbt is to identify irrational ideas or thoughts. Exposure therapy (or experiments) has someone imagine what they fear. In vivo exposure: stay in situation long enough causes anxiety to decrease on its own. Person realizes compulsions do not need to happen to relieve the anxiety. Obsessions: recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced as intrusive or unwanted. Urge is the feeling of needing to do something. Does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) they wa(cid:374)t to do it: attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts or urges, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action.
