Adult disorders
This disorder develops following a frightening, stressful, or distressing life events: fear, hopelessness and stress. It affects normal life functioning of the patient. Some symptoms are Reliving-flashbacks, hallucinations, and nightmares.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder?
Screening tools for PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)
What is Primary Care PTSD Screen and/or PTSD Checklist?
This therapy focuses on relationships among thoughts feelings and behaviors. It targets the current problems and symptoms. Also focuses on changing patterns of behaviors thoughts and feelings.
What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy?
This disorder is characterized by the development of severe anxiety, dissociation, and other symptoms that occurs within one month after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor.
After a period of a month, the stress response will begin to resolve or go on to become PTSD.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
The 4 important things the nurse should consider when assessing a patient about events in their life.
What are Life events, memory, suicide risks and impact on patient and family?
This therapy teaches the patient to gradually approach trauma-related memories feelings and situations.
What is Exposure Therapy?
This disorder occurs after significant adverse traumas, and individuals respond to stress with a severe interruption of consciousness. It is an unconscious defense mechanism that protects the individual against overwhelming anxiety through an emotional separation.
What is Dissociative disorder?
Focus on attaining mood equilibrium and well being.
What is an nursing outcome?
This therapy is combined with exposure therapy with a series of guided eye movements that helps the patient process traumatic memories and changed how they react to them.
What is Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing?