PSY 364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Disconnection, Yoda
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Communication channels/messages that we can pick up without paying direct. Feel another person"s distress put off stress-related pheromones attention. Can take more care of others if you take care of yourself as a helper first. In-patient hospitalization/treatment - clients get nervous (housed anywhere against your will) Treatment can have advantages (sometimes necessary) and disadvantages. Prefer to use interventions that are less restrictive and interfering in their daily life. Structure of mental health practice more holistic. High rate of helping need - natural disasters. Mental health burden accrued most to vulnerable: elder, fewest financial resources, medical need already, youngest. Deterministic - if a then b. Ex: experience hurricane get ptsd (not always true) Depersonalizing environments - feel less like an individual/person. Disconnection from sense of community - variable linked to increasing the rate of mental illness and the difficulties people have adjusting. Most gun-owning families are not interested in hearing from people with experience.
