History of PTSD
True or false: Research concerning PTSD began after the Vietnam War as a result of the psychological problems experienced by the soldiers.
What is True
Who are some of the individuals most likely to experience PTSD? (give at least 3 populations)
What are some general symptoms of PTSD?
Refer to pg 76.
True or False: Rates of PTSD and SA are higher for incarcerated women.
What is true. Pg. 82
What are the 3 states of recovery from traumatic events?
What are: safety, remembrance/mourning, and reconnection. Refer to pg 85
What was PTSD described as when its symptoms were documented from the civil war?
What is irritable heart or soldiers heart.
True or False: 2 people will always experience a trauma the same way.
What is false.
True or false: PTSD creates changes in the body.
What is true. Refer to pg. 77.
What are 3 common factors that 90% of women who are incarcerated have experienced?
What is: sexual, physical and emotional abuse prior to imprisonment. Pg. 85 left side
T/F: There are 10 suggested criteria for the resolution of trauma according to the text.
True or false: Most recently, individuals who have experienced a natural disaster (hurricanes, tsunamis) are being diagnosed with PTSD.
What is true
True or false: One's culture or ethnic group may affect how one reacts to PTSD symptoms.
What is true> Refer to pg. 76.
True or false: Heart attacks are a physical manifestations of PTSD.
True or false: Abuse is NOT thought to be a "precursor to criminality."
What are some treatment modalities for PTSD?
Refer to pgs. 87-91
What is the current definition of a traumatic event?
What is 1. the person experienced, witnessed or was confronted with an event(s) that involved actual or threatened death/serious injury...2. the persons response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
Name some variables that impact how a person perceives a traumatic event.
True or false: Substance use is considered a psychological outcome of PTSD.
What is false. According to the text this would be considered self destructive behavior. See pg. 77.
Name some things that are noticed in the pattern among delinquent girls.
Pg. 83 bottom left.
T/F: All forms of child abuse are considered to be risk factors for psychological, social, and physical effects both long and short term.
What is true. See pg. 82
True or false: It is asserted that traumatic events are extraordinary not because they are rare, but because of the way it affects human life.
What is true.
What is the definition of complex PTSD?
Pg. 77
T/f: Men are more likely to develop SA after exposure to a traumatic event and develop symptoms of PTSD.
What is False. Refer to pg. 82 midway