Transcript Post traumatic stress disorder

POST TRAUMATIC
STRESS DISORDER
Nayeli Ayala
psychology
Periods 1
Definition of PTSD
• An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories
nightmares social withdrawal jumpy anxiety and or insomnia that
lingers for four week or more often a traumatic experiences.
-This disorder comes from memories that people feel
they have been hunted by, this can often become a disorder that
makes the person feel deviant, distressful, dysfunctional
Associated features of PTSD
• The people that have this disorder they feel like that they are going
through their experiences again even though their not.
-They have dreams; flashbacks
-Intense fear helplessness; horror
-Difficulties to sleep
-Depression
-Startled by minor noises
• Symptoms
-Stress
-Anxiety
-Relatively normal functioning within days or week
-Diagnosed If symptoms are persist for a month
DSM-IV-TR
• A: Stressor
Question about their experiences and what event made them get stress
Ex: The person has experienced, witnessed or been confronted with an
event that involved actual or threatened to the physical integrity of oneself
or others
• B: intrusive recollection
In what way does the traumatic event is re-experience, dreams flashback;
seeing images that remind you of the event that traumatized the person
• C: Avoidant numbing
if they avoid to go to some places because if it reminds them of what
happen to them
• D: hyper-arousal
Cont...DMS-IV-TR
• E: Duration
• Asked questions about the person sleep and concentration,
outburst of anger, and exaggerated startle response
F: Functional significance
Questions about how long has the symptoms have been occurring if
they been for at least six months
Etiology
• The cause of this disorder is a horrible experience that they went
through. They begin to feel stressed and cant continue with their
normal life.
• The main reasons that people get this disorder is being through a
bad an traumatic experience
ex: rape, threatened, victim of torture, witness and accident,
exposure to a war, or other form of abuse
Prevalence
• This disorder occurs to 8% of the U.S population
• Veterans of the Iraq war are usually diagnosed with PTSD
• 3.6%of adult American can develop PTSD
• PTSD can be developed at any age
• PTSD is more likely to develop PTSD then men
maybe because women are more likely to go through
domestic violence, abuse, and rape.
Treatment
• To treat PTSD their therapy and medication that can be used
-medication used are
antidepressants: Doxepin, Elavil
tranquilizers: Ativan
mood stabilizers: Depakote,
-Therapy (psychotherapy)
helps the person learn how to manage the disorder
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• To help recognize and change their thoughts pattern that led to trouble
the persons emotions
Cont...Treatment
• Therapy
-psychodynamic therapy
Helps the person examine personal values, and emotional traumatic caused by the
event
-group therapy
May help the person express their fear and thoughts with people with who
experienced the same traumatic event
Prognosis
• An out come that can happen in some situations is being in
denial/intrusion phase, this can complicate the disorder a bit more
because the person will not accept what they went through and will
be harder to get them recover from what happen to them.
• They recovery of PTSD takes a long time and is an on going
process. The person will continue taking medication and going to
therapy.
Discussion Question
• Do we find the treatment used for this disorder effective, if we
didn’t what other ways we can treat it?
References
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perspective on psychological disorder. 4th edition. New York;
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-WebMD.(2005).post traumatic stress disorder. Retrieve from http://
www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/post-traumatic-stressdisorder