PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Abnormal Psychology, Psy
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Ptsd is an extreme response to a severe stressor. Recurrent memories of the trauma: military trauma, sexual violence and/or rape, physical violence. For men: military traume is still the most common. For women the most common stressor is rape: human-related trauma (abuse, combat-related incident) are more likely to develop into. Negative mood and thought: isolation, hopeless, guilt and shame. Increased arousal or reactivity: monitoring surroundings, jumpiness, difficulty falling and/or staying asleep. Have impact on relationships, physical health, and increase risk of non-suicidal self injury and suicide. In a sample of men and women who have experienced trauma, women still have a 1. 5-2x more likely to develop ptsd. People of color have higher rates of ptsd. Race based traumatic stress--traumatic symptoms following incidents of racism. At least one of the following avoidance symptoms: avoids internal reminders of the trauma(s, avoids external reminders of the trauma(s)
