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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 -American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (Revised 4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author. -Halgrin, R.P,& Whit bouren, S.K.(2005).Abnormal psychology: clinical perspective on psychological disorder. 4th edition. New York; McGraw-Hill. -Myers, D,G.(2011).Myers psychology for ap. New York; NY. Worth publisher. -WebMD.(2005).post traumatic stress disorder. Retrieve from http:// www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/post-traumatic-stressdisorder