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. 4 th 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 disorder