PSYC 3082 Chapter : Exam 2 Notes
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Defining features of ptsd: re-experiences memories, nightmares, flashbacks, avoidance of anything associated with the traumatic event, emotional numbing or interpersonal problems, marked interference with one"s ability to function. Post traumatic stress disorder is diagnosed when the reaction persists for longer than one month. Obsessions and compulsions are time consuming or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in important areas of functioning. Causes of ocd: generalized psychological and biological vulnerability, stress due to life events (normally early life experiences) Trichotillomania is the urge to pull out one"s own hair from anywhere on the body: this leads to noticeable hair loss on the scalp, eyebrows, arms, pubic region, etc, behavioral habit reversal treatment is most effective treatment. Excoriation is the repetitive and compulsive picking of the skin: this leads to tissue damage, behavioral habit reversal treatment is most effective treatment. Somatic symptom disorders: somatic symptom disorder, illness anxiety disorder, conversion disorder, factitious disorders. Dissociative disorders: depersonalization/de-realization disorder, dissociative amnesia, dissociative identity disorder.
