PSY 282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Concussion, Acute Stress Reaction, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 282
• Professor: Ryan Thibodeau

Document Summary

Trauma and stressor-related disorders include attachment disorders in childhood following inadequate or abusive child-rearing practices, adjustment disorders characterized by persistent anxiety and depression following a stressful life event, and reactions to trauma such as ptsd and acute stress disorder. Trauma and stressor-related disorders all share a proximal instigating stressful event followed by intense emotional responses. The setting event for ptsd is exposure to a traumatic event during which an individual experiences or witnesses death or threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violation. Learning that the traumatic event occurred to a close family or friend, or enduring repeated exposure to details of a traumatic event (as in first responders to a terrorist attack dealing with human remains) are also setting events. Victims most often avoid anything that reminds them of the trauma. Victims are sometimes unable to remember certain aspects of the traumatic event. Victims typically are chronically over-aroused, easily startled, and quick to anger.