L33 Psych 354 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Acute Stress Reaction, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Disorder
20 Mar 2019
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Chapter 07: acute and posttraumatic stress disorders, dissociative. Unconscious mental processes - information processing outside of conscious awareness. Dissociation - the disruption of the normally integrated mental processes involved in memory, consciousness, identity, or perception. Traumatic stress - an event that involves actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence to self, witnessing others experience trauma, learning that loved ones have been traumatized, or repeatedly being exposed to details of trauma. Trauma includes rape, military combat, bombings, airplane crashes, earthquakes, major fires and devastating automobile wrecks. Recent trauma includes terrorist attacks, sexual assaults, combat in iraq and afghanistan, and school shootings. Acute stress disorder (asd) - occurs within a month after exposure to. Posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) - lasts longer than one month and traumatic stress sometimes has a delayed onset. Symptoms of acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder:
