PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hypervigilance, Acute Stress Reaction, Cortisol
24 Oct 2017
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Stress definitions: stressors, external event or situations that place physical or psychological demands on a person, stress. Internal psychological or physiological response to a stressor. Assessment of life stress: life and difficulties schedule (leads: unpleasantness of the event after 10-14 days, long-term consequences of the event. Review: a study by brody and colleagues (2014) on african american youths, racial discrimination was associated with allostatic load. Trauma and stressor-related disorders: adjustment, acute stress, post-traumatic stress. Trauma-related disorders: typical outcomes after exposure to traumatic incidents, resilience, recovery. Initial distress with symptom reduction over time: delayed symptoms, few initial symptoms. Diagnosis of acute and post-traumatic stress disorders: requirements for diagnosis. Intrusion symptoms: exposure to traumatic event, avoidance, negative alterations in mod or cognition, arousal and changes in reactivity, hypervigilance. Traumatic events associated with acute stress disorder and ptsd: combat, sexual assaults, violent crime or domestic violence, sexual harassment, natural disasters, car accidents or work-related accidents.
