PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Acute Stress Reaction, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Reduced Affect Display
17 May 2020
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Organizational structure of mental disorder descriptions: clinical description, statistics. Posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd: theories and related treatments. Must experience, witness, or be confronted with: actual or threatened death or serious illness, or a threat to someone else"s physical state. Person must have experienced intense horror, fear, or terror. Must: re-experience the traumatic event (nightmares, flashbacks, etc. ) that intrude on everyday life, avoidance of any stimulant that happened with the event, emotional numbness, and persistent physiological arousal. People with ptsd have a lot of anger usually. Course of ptsd: can have acute ptsd which just lasts for a few months. Delayed onset: people function fine for many years, and then something is a chronic course of ptsd that lasts for years and years. triggers the onset of ptsd. Happens between days 2-28 after a traumatic event. Problems coping with a situation that does not meet the criteria for ptsd or asd. Hostility, urgency, and competitiveness are characteristics of type a.
