101681 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Acute Stress Reaction, Attachment Disorder, Adjustment Disorder

• School: UWS
• Department: University of Western Sydney
• Course: 101681
• Professor: Kiley Seymour

Document Summary

Dsm 5 examples: reactive attachment disorder, disinhibited social engagement disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder, adjustment disorders. Disinhibited social engagement disorder: disinhibited social engagement disorder: insufficient parental care, leading to a child who is overly familiar with strangers, bill(cid:455) will just walk off with a(cid:374)(cid:455)o(cid:374)e, does(cid:374)"t (cid:272)he(cid:272)k with his dad, associated features. Inauthentic expression of emotion: overly personal questions/ violating personal space, superficial/ conflictual relationship later in life, neglect >2yo no evidence that it manifests into dsed. Post-traumatic stress disorder: ptsd: delayed symptoms following real (or threatened) exposure to death/ serious injury, multiple symptom clusters: Ptsd aetiology: despite change in dsm (apa, 2013), aetiology is virtually identical to an anxiety disorder. Exception: trauma and predisposing factor, thus, this disorder develops, trauma occurs to individual with genetic vulnerability to anxiety. Individual avoids memory + safety behaviours: memory is never processed properly.