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Chapter 11

Chapter 11. PTSD, Community Disasters, and Trauma Response. POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER. Symptoms: Recurring nightmares reexperiencing the event hypervigilance Anxiety sleeplessness numbness dissociation. TWO TYPES. Acute Stress Disorder: Same symptoms but only last 1 month

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Chapter 11

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  1. Chapter 11 PTSD, Community Disasters, and Trauma Response

  2. POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER • Symptoms: • Recurring nightmares • reexperiencing the event • hypervigilance • Anxiety • sleeplessness • numbness • dissociation

  3. TWO TYPES • Acute Stress Disorder: Same symptoms but only last 1 month • Delayed: when situation not dealt with, person uses defenses to cope so symptoms subside until something triggers an acute reaction

  4. Precipitating Events • Serving in Combat or Living in a War Zone • Suffering Personal or Family Victimization • Living Through a Natural Disaster • Surviving a Manmade Disaster`

  5. Phases of community disaster • Heroic phase • Honeymoon phase • Disillusionment phase • Reconstruction phase

  6. Interventions • Allow denial in the beginning • Eventually help clients channel floods of feelings into productive avenues for growth • Critical Incident and Debriefing: educate about PTSD and help normalize the many symptoms they will experience • Empathy is essential • EMDR:eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

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