PSYC 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heritability, Dissociative Disorder, Psychopathology
18 Sep 2018
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Trauma and stressor-related disorders: acute stress disorder, adjustment disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder. Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious or sexual violence in which the sense of personal safety is threatened: Witnessed in person the events as it occurred to others. Experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of trauma. Learning that the traumatic events occurred to person close to them. Presence of 1 or more intrusive sx after the event. Recurrent, involuntary and intrusive memories of event. Avoidance of distressing memories, thoughts or feelings of the event(s) Avoidance of external reminders of that arouse memories of events(s) e. g. people, places, activities. Inability to remember an important aspect of the traumatic event(s) Persistent distorted cognitions about cause or consequence of event that lead to blame of self or others. Risk increases with dose of trauma, lack of social support, pre-existing psychiatric. Presence of >9 of 5 categories of intrusion, negative mood, dissociation, avoidance, and arousal related to the trauma.
