Extractions: Background Severe traumatic stressors such as war, rape, or life-threatening accidents can result in a debilitating psychopathological development conceptualised as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Pathological memory formation during an alarm response may set the precondition for PTSD to occur. If true, a lack of memory formation by extended unconsciousness in the course of the traumatic experience should preclude PTSD. Methods 46 patients from a neurological rehabilitation clinic were examined by means of questionnaires and structured clinical interviews. All patients had suffered a TBI due to an accident, but varied with respect to falling unconscious during the traumatic event.
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Lauren Berman, PhD. Although Freud (Freud, 1906) described the impact of trauma on the psyche http://www.atlantapsychotherapy.com/articles/berman1.htm
Extractions: Lauren Berman, PhD Today, PTSD is recognized as affecting between 1% and 14% of the population (DSM-IV, 1994). Its symptoms can be severely disabling and can last for many years. The symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder are best understood by viewing them in 3 categories (Herman, J.L., 1992): hyperarousal (the persistent expectation of danger), intrusion (the interference of past trauma into present day existence), and constriction (the shutting down of normal responses in order to block or prevent the intrusion of trauma into the present). Hyperarousal Intrusive experiences are among the most disturbing sequelae of trauma because they make past trauma present in everyday life. It is as if the trauma will not let you forget that it is not yet processed. Traumatic memories appear to be encoded and stored differently from other memories. Often, they are not available in verbal, narrative form. Traumatic memories remain out of context. Instead, they are encoded as vivid sensations or images. One trauma survivor wrote: If the story of the trauma does become available to the trauma survivor, it is often strangely detached from the emotion or missing something essential. The same survivor wrote, "I remember lying there, not really moving, not really sure what to do. Why cant I ever remember thinking anything If I could only remember being scared, afraid, angry then maybe it would be OK Its like since I cant remember those feelings, I must have thought it was OK Now that is scary!"
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) - Daycare.com posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD). All children and adolescents experience stressful events which can affect them both emotionally and physically. http://www.daycare.com/fastfacts/ptsd.html
Extractions: A ll children and adolescents experience stressful events which can affect them both emotionally and physically. Their reactions to stress are usually brief, and they recover without further problems. A child or adolescent who experiences a catastrophic event may develop ongoing difficulties known as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The stressful or traumatic event involves a situation where someones life has been threatened or severe injury has occurred (ex. they may be the victim or a witness of physical abuse, sexual abuse, violence in the home or in the community, automobile accidents, natural disasters (such as flood, fire, earthquakes), and being diagnosed with a life threatening illness). A childs risk of developing PTSD is related to the seriousness of the trauma, whether the trauma is repeated, the childs proximity to the trauma, and his/her relationship to the victim(s). Following the trauma, children may initially show agitated or confused behavior. They also may show intense fear, helplessness, anger, sadness, horror or denial. Children who experience repeated trauma may develop a kind of emotional numbing to deaden or block the pain and trauma. This is called dissociation. Children with PTSD avoid situations or places that remind them of the trauma. They may also become less responsive emotionally, depressed, withdrawn, and more detached from their feelings. A child with PTSD may also re-experience the traumatic event by: having frequent memories of the event, or in young children, play in which some or all of the trauma is repeated over and over
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Extractions: var sec = "test_nav"; Some people have experienced one or more exceptionally stressful events in their lives. Such an event may involve loss of life, threatened physical harm or violence to yourself or to someone close to you. It may also involve a sudden and unexpected death. If you have experienced such an event, or several events, try to recall the one event that was the most stressful or upsetting. Then rate on the scale below (the SPRINT questionnaire) how much that event has bothered you in the past week. The Short PTSD Rating Interview (SPRINT) was developed by Jonathan Davidson, MD . Before answering these 8 SPRINT questions, please write down the particular event you have selected. The SPRINT has been developed to help you evaluate possible symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and thereby assist you and your healthcare professional in identifying the disorder. This self test does not substitute for a diagnosis by a healthcare professional. A healthcare professional is the only person who can appropriately diagnose you. If you would like to print out a copy of the following blank PTSD self test to pass on to a friend or family member
Extractions: New Treatments, March 2, 2004. For how many weeks or months have the flashbacks been present? Did the patient experience an event that involved actual or threatened death? Yes No Did the patient experience an event that involved actual or threatened serious injury? Yes No Did the patient experience intense fear? Yes No Did the patient experience intense helplessness? Yes No Did the patient experience intense horror? Yes No Judith Harper, MD back to the library
Extractions: Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed INTRODUCTION The treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has received a surge of interest recently with an increasing number of controlled pharmacologic trials. The most common treatments offered to trauma victims include psychotherapy, typically involving either behavioral techniques, cognitive approaches, crisis intervention, or psychodynamically orientated approaches; and group therapy including mutual self-help groups, and family therapy. These approaches have been used on a variety of trauma populations such as victims of combat, terrorism, rape, child abuse, accidents, and disasters. The role of pharmacotherapy in PTSD is more of as adjunctive therapy to alleviate depressive and anxiety symptoms in addition to serving a facilitative effect for psychotherapy. POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER Recent research suggests that patients experiencing forms of trauma such as disaster, rape, or combat all have similar psychopathology (Solomon et al 1992). These patients not only show profiles consistent with PTSD, but often show symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major Depression, and Substance Abuse.
Extractions: Psychotherapy begins with diagnosis, a process of identifying or determining the nature and cause of a disease or injury through a critical analysis of a patients history, an examination, and a review of empirical data. One of the most vexing issues to be encountered in psychology is the identificationfor clinical and forensic purposesof Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (1994) lists PTSD (309.81) under anxiety disorders, stating that it may result from direct or indirect exposure to trauma. Its essential features include intrusive and avoidance symptoms , and symptoms of hyperarousal , for greater than 1 month and causing clinically significant distress or impairment in important life areas. Indirect traumata may include observing the serious injury or death of another person through violence, accident, war, or disaster or the chance encountering of a corpse or body parts. Although Adjustment Disorder and PTSD both require a psychosocial stressor, PTSD is identified by an extreme stressor and specific symptoms, while Adjustment Disorder may be triggered by a stressor of any severity and can involve a wide range of symptoms.
Substance Use Disorder And Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Substance Use Disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder ComorbidityAddiction and Psychiatric Treatment Rates. The International http://www.psychosocial.com/addiction/su_ptsd.html
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Trauma Information Pages, Articles Yehuda McFarlane (1995) Conflict Between Current Knowledge About posttraumatic stress disorder and Its Original Conceptual Basis. in posttraumatic stress disorder DSMIV and Beyond. http://www.trauma-pages.com/yehuda95.htm
Extractions: Objective: The authors' goal was to explore the historical, political, and social forces that have played a major role in the acceptance of the idea of trauma as a cause of the specific symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and to discuss the impact that current research findings have had on some of the initial conceptualizations of the disorder. Method: The conceptual origins of PTSD are described, and the literature on the prevalence, longitudinal course, phenomenology, and neurobiology of PTSD is reviewed. Results: Paradoxically, there are a series of findings that support the idea that PTSD is a distinct diagnostic entity but these are different from those originally developed from psychosocial theory and stress research. Conclusions: PTSD has been a controversial diagnosis and is again at a vulnerable point. It is imperative that the field address how current findings challenge the original conceptualizations of this disorder so that the next generation of conceptual issues can be formulated. From the Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, N.Y., and Bronx VA Medical Center; and the Department of Community and Rehabilitation Psychiatry, Universitv of Adelaide, Glenside, South Australia.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder posttraumatic stress disorder. Clinical Programs in Psychiatry. posttraumatic stress disorder. Norah C. Feeny, PhD Director, PTSD Treatment and Research Program. http://www.cwru.edu/med/psychiatry/stress.htm
Extractions: Fortunately, good, evidence based treatments exist for PTSD. Cognitive behavioral interventions in particular appear to be effective. Cognitive behavioral treatments focus on reducing trauma related anxiety and avoidance in order to help people overcome their trauma related fears. Medications have also been found to be very helpful, and in adults, two medications have been approved by the FDA for use with PTSD: sertraline and paroxetine.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder DSM-IV Criteria The following are a list of the criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR posttraumatic stress disorder. http://anxiety.psy.ohio-state.edu/ptsd1.htm
Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Noun posttraumatic stress disorder - an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images PTSD survivor guilt - a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died; "survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the Holocaust" anxiety disorder - a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom battle fatigue combat fatigue combat neurosis shell shock - a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Some words with "posttraumatic stress disorder" in the definition: