SOCB22H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sexual Assault, Startle Response, Burstow
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Gender is one of the primary determinants of health: march goes towards funding breastcancer research, negatively affected men this campaign. Ethnicity and race are other key determinants of health: aboigorginal people in canada experience tuberculosis, hiv/aids, heart disease, and diabeter at much higher rates than the general population. Added to the dsm in 1980 (because of lobbying from vietnam vets) Has gone through various changes (dsm-5, 2013) Encompasses many different types of trauma: ( sexual assault victims; Military/ combat trauma; survivors of natural disasters; motor vehicle accidents; trained responders; preschool trauma (new, dsm-5: post traumatic stress disorder dsm-5. Criterion a: the person was exposed to: death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence. Criterion b: intrusion symptoms: (memories, nightmares, flashbacks) Criterion c: avoidance symptoms: persistent effortful avoidance of distressing trauma-related stimuli after the event. (one required) Trauma-related external reminders (e. g. , people, places, conversations, activities, objects, or situations).
