01:920:307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stressor, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
22 Mar 2017
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Hurricane katrina (not business as usual: threat = existence/possibility of harm. Putting added roles on you: structural constraints = reduced opportunity ,choices/rewards, because of social arrangements we are a part of, there are constraints for things we can do, acute events, acute trauma events, ex. Racial discrimination: traumas = so out of the ordinary that there is no guideline to handle it and most people would have problems adjusting to it, daily hassles = ex. Traffic: chronic traumatic events no beginning or end and no clear way to handle it, ex. Childhood sexual abuse (long range and out of the ordinary) and has the most harmful effects on mental health: living in a warzone too, coping, material, something concrete, ex. Institutional/structural supports = organizations you belong to (clubs, church, teams, etc. : 3 dimensions of seeing social support, we receive support directly (someone gives you a, we perceive support/believe it is there (ex.
