HSS 4102 Lecture 8: Trauma and Mental Health

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 4102
• Professor: Saulier & Phillips

Document Summary

Stress adult trauma-ptsd, adolescence mental health, post-partum depression, cognitive decline. Generalized anxiety disorder feeling restless or keyed up, difficulty concentrating, being easily fatigued, feeling irritable, experiencing muscle tension, having sleep difficulties, gastrointestinal discomfort including nausea and diarrhea, sweating. Post-traumatic stress disorder person has directly experienced a traumatic event develops a characteristic set of symptoms symptoms separated in 4 categories intrusion/re-experiencing symptoms, avoidance symp, negative cognitions and mood, symps of hyper arousal. Peri-trauma factors perceived fear of death, assaultive trauma, severity of trauma, physical injury: severity, intensity, frequency and duration of trauma; initial severity of person"s reaction to trauma; unpredictability and uncontrollability of the trauma. Posttrauma factors lack of social support, life stress, fail for early identification and treatment. Mechansnisms are not fully understood: altered fear leaning fail to extinguish behavioural responses to trauma stimuli, conceptualization of ptsd as a failure to recover from a stressor. 4: girls tend to have more of all subtypes of anxiety disorders.