PSY 3173 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Major Depressive Episode, Suicidal Ideation, Acute Stress Reaction
17 Feb 2017
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May share the same vulnerability or cause. Ptsd needs the symptoms to be persistent for 1+ months, while acute stress disorder can be immediately diagnosed: what is introspective avoidance? getting physiologically aroused. Ptsd diagnostic criteria: must be a trauma. Arousal/reactivity: exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in one (or more) of the following ways: Experiencing a traumatic event (war, sexual assault, accident, etc. ) Witnessing the event as they occur to others. Learning that trauma occurred to a close family member or friend. Experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of traumatic event(s) People who work with survivors of childhood abuse firefighters, paramedics, nurses. Thoughts, conversations, people, places: alterations in thoughts and emotions: Ocd diagnostic criteria: need obsessions or compulsions or both, obsessions. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced as intrusive or unwanted.
