PSYC 4270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Polytrauma, Suicidal Ideation, Systematic Desensitization

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4270
• Professor: Gerald Young

Document Summary

Breathing - simple, focus on following the air. Fight or ight - autonomic response - blood goes to big organs/muscles to survive stress. Hands go numb because of lack of blood (adaptive, but not for day-to-day stress) Hyper or hypo response when someone has been stressed too long (dissociating = hypo) Bringing up the motivation (breathing exercises plus self-talk) Moderate arousal levels is when the information gets in. Highlight the salient points, summarize them in handwriting. Stress is stress no matter what situation we"re in. Social - family/law/insurance/friends - giving support or not. Part of a team - ot, pt, doctors, nurses, slp, neuropsychologists, social workers. Transdiagnostic therapy: useful for multiple diagnoses (like cbt) Observations and correlations are adequate for a science (psychology) You have to adjust to help them adjust. Polytrauma: ptsd, pain, brain injury, depression, anxiety (any combination, any initial issue) Trauma (haunted by ghost of person he tried to save)