True or False
Symptoms
Assessment
Evidence-Based Treatments
Fun Facts
100
Men are more likely to develop PTSD than women.
What is false?
100

The term for excessive watchfulness for threats or danger.

What is hypervigilance?

100
The abbreviation for the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist.
What is PCL?
100
This type of medication is the most prescribed to treat individuals with PTSD.
What are antidepressants/SSRIs/SNRIs?
100
Name a resilience factor for PTSD.
What is social support/exercise/positive coping strategies/positive outlook on life?
200

A person with drug and alcohol issues is more likely to have PTSD than the general population.

What is true?
200

Choosing your behavior based on trying to escape particular thoughts, feelings, or things.

What is avoidance?
200
The Primary Care PTSD Screen has this many questions.
What is four?
200
Cognitive Processing Therapy is a manualized treatment that typically has this many sessions.
What is twelve?
200
Individuals who meet criteria for PTSD less than 1 month after experiencing a traumatic event may be diagnosed with this.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
300
PTSD is heritable.
What is true?
300

A traumatized person is likely to be diagnosed with PTSD after having symptoms for this amount of time.

What is 1 month?
300
This structured assessment is commonly used to assess for PTSD as well as many other disorders.
What is the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM (SCID)?
300

This PTSD treatment is most similar to Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy for anxiety disorders.

What is Prolonged Exposure?
300

The most commonly co-occuring disorder along with PTSD is

What is depression?
400

Hearing about a traumatic event cannot create PTSD symptoms; a person must experience the traumatic event first-hand in order to develop symptoms.

What is false?
400

Memories of the traumatic event that can come back at any time.

What is re-experiencing?
400
Evidence-based assessment techniques have been implemented in this hospital system.
What is the Veterans Affairs Health Care System?
400
In Prolonged Exposure, individuals use this exposure technique to relive their trauma when an in-vivo approach is not practical.
What is imaginal exposure?
400

Although many people tend to associate PTSD with war-related violence, it is actually this event which most often leads to a PTSD diagnosis.

What is rape?
500
PTSD used to be classified as this type of disorder.
What is anxiety disorder?
500

The way you think about yourself and others changes because of the trauma.

What is negative alterations in cognition and mood?
500

The "gold standard" semi-structured diagnostic interview to assess PTSD.

What is the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)?

500
Cognitive Processing Therapy using this type of questioning to break down irrational beliefs.
What is Socratic questioning?
500
PTSD was once called this.
What is 'shell shock' or 'battle fatigue syndrome'?
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