PTSD

PTSD stands for

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD Qualifications?

Longer than a month, death

PTSD Symptoms?

Exposure, Intrusive Symptoms, Avoidance, Thoughts/Emotions Change, Hypervigilance

Vicarious Trauma

Trauma that occurs at work

1st Responders?

Firefighters, Paramedics, police, soldiers, coroner

2nd Responders?

Therapist, Judge, Lawyers, Correctional Officers, Social Workers

Dissociative Amnesia

forgetting important details of a trauma

Acute Stress Disorder

0-1 month, Death

Adjustment Disorder w/ Anxiety

Less than 6 months, no death

Affect

Outward expression of emotion

Function of Dreams

Process events and emotions

How do we process things?

Play, dreams, sex

What dreams do we remember?

The ones that wake us up

CBT?

cognitive behavioral therapy

A+B=C

actuating events, belief, consequences

Cognitive Distortion

Lie we believe

CBT injects?

Flexability to belief

Behavioral Therapy trades?

bx for bx

CBT (fire) Injects?

Empathy in actuating events

CBT trades?

belief for belief

FIRE trades?

fear for love

Ex of cognitive distortions

“should” statements, magnification and minimization, Catastrophizing, Overgeneralization, Black or white thinking

Ego-DYSTONIC

symptoms I don’t like

Ego-SYSTONIC

I don’t see it as a problem