Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Trauma involves events that pose significant threat (physical, emotional, or psychological) to the safety of the victim or loved ones/friends and are overwhelming and shocking. Many individuals exposed to traumatic events experience a range of posttraumatic psychophysiological reactions though most of these reactions remit spontaneously within approximately the first month of occurrence
• PTSD is an Anxiety Disorder with 6 Criteria:
• Criterion A: Stressor Criterion
• Criterion B: Reexperiencing Criterion
• Criterion C: Avoidance/Numbing Criterion
• Criterion D: Arousal Criterion
• Criterion E: Duration
• Criterion F: Clinically Significant Distress/Impairmen
PTSD is a Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorder with 8 Criteria:
• Criterion A: Stressor Criterion
• Criterion B: Intrusion Criterion
• Criterion C: Avoidance Criterion
• Criterion D: Negative Alterations in Cognition or Mood Criterion
• Criterion E: Arousal and Reactivity Criterion
• Criterion F: Duration
• Criterion G: Clinically Significant Distress/Impairment
• Criterion H: Not attributable to effects of substance/medical condition TREATMENTS.
Several treatment
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The term deconstruction comes from the work of French philosopher, Jacques Derrida. He used it to refer to “openness to the other”. In DDP, therapy clients are encouraged to “deconstruct” distorted and maladaptive ways of looking at things (e.g. polarized and distorted attributions), interpreting social interactions, and relating to others. Therapists assume an accepting, non-judgmental and open-minded stance as they challenge and encourage clients’ openness to other, new possibilities, interpretations, and