PSYC 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Eye Movement, Hypervigilance, Reduced Affect Display
16 Jul 2020
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All these should cause significant distress and impairment in order to be diagnosed clinically. Trauma- a shocking and dangerous event that someone sees or experiences personally. General mechanism: overwhelming arousal + cognitions (perception, sensory, thinking) = trauma. Trauma type 1: single incident good prognosis with psychological first aid, crisis intervention, therapy of reassurance and having things back to normal. Trauma type 2: repeated incidents of trauma, when things cannot be normal again. Poor prognosis: memory confusion, ptsd sx, poor self-esteem, self-blame, px with personal relationships, despondency. Trauma type 3: pervasive trauma in the first 1000 days of life. This trauma does not get reported often (one of the worst trauma is maternal abandonment) Prognosis is poor: absence of coherent memory, denial, depression, emotional numbness, terminal thinking, hopelessness. Often substance use/abuse, sense of foreshortened future, dissociative disorders, impulse control px. Criterion a: traumatic event (exposure to threatened death, injury, sexual violence)
