CHYS 2P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
14 May 2018
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A word that gets thrown around a lot
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Notion of safety is impacted
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an event that is both perceived and experienced as a threat to one's safety or to the stability
of a subject’s world.
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Causes us to loose trust in the world
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An event that destabilizes our sense of security and knowledge that the world is good
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Everything daily activities become difficult
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Overwhelms one’s ability to cope and often, to clearly understand how they survived
definition
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For protection
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In order to continue one might repress memory of the event
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Can't get over it or forget it
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Trauma impacts memory
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Occurs after an event
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Anything we experience as children comes to form our opinions, identity ect as adult
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Childhood experience has mobility
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Eruption of memory from people places or things that trigger the memory of the
trauma
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If they are repressed that doesn't mean they are not noticeable
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The experience of trauma can interrupt an expected future and cause parts of the mind (and
body) to defend against memory of the past.
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The child who experiences trauma may try to forget in order to continue living, though
memory of the event may be repressed, symptoms of trauma may be detected (nightmares,
aggression, problems focusing)
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Trauma
Very normal because it is a normal response to a terrible experience
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A very normal response to a terrible event
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After trauma, children/youth must learn to find hope despite knowing the world as cruel
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A parent’s experience of trauma influences their child(ren)
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When not treated or supported, the child who has experienced trauma may have difficulty
regaining trust in the world
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War, displacement, fire, sexual abuse, sexual violence, physical abuse, car accident, natural
disasters, the death of a loved one
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Potential Causes of Trauma
Convulsions; nightmares; amnesia; depression; hyper-vigilance/constant awareness;
silence; avoidance; children running away from home; dissociation (in part, the survivor
attempting to believe that it did not happen to them/hide their memories from themselves);
self-injury; splitting of good/bad; violence and aggression
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Traumatic experience is made through symptoms:
The goal is to help children who have experienced trauma build-up their capacity for
resiliency
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It has been shown that children with strong attachments to family and community require
less intervention after trauma, however, there are exceptions
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2 children may experience the same event and have drastically different reactions
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Children are said to be resilient when they have coped with, adapted to, and overcome the
effects of trauma..
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Secure relationships and service provision that provide safe places to work thought the
effects trauma contributes to resilience in children
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Resiliency:
Hurricane Katrina
Week 6- The violence of trauma on children’s imaginations:
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Document Summary
Week 6- the violence of trauma on children"s imaginations: A word that gets thrown around a lot an event that is both perceived and experienced as a threat to one"s safety or to the stability of a subject"s world. An event that destabilizes our sense of security and knowledge that the world is good. Causes us to loose trust in the world. Overwhelms one"s ability to cope and often, to clearly understand how they survived definition. In order to continue one might repress memory of the event. Anything we experience as children comes to form our opinions, identity ect as adult. The experience of trauma can interrupt an expected future and cause parts of the mind (and body) to defend against memory of the past. Eruption of memory from people places or things that trigger the memory of the trauma. If they are repressed that doesn"t mean they are not noticeable.
