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Reactions to extreme trauma - Answer-Intrusive recollections, acute distress upon cues, dissociative symptoms, chronic hyperarousal, aggressiveness in males, survival guilt Dissociative symptoms - Answer-Depersonalization, derealization, being in a daze, time slowing, dissociative amnesia Depersonalization - Answer-Feeling detached from one's body Derealization - Answer-Feeling that the current setting is not real Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) - Answer-A disorder in which a person experiences fear and related symptoms soon after a trauma but for less than a month PTSD - Answer-A disorder in which a person experiences fear and related symptoms long after a traumatic event Risk factors for stress disorders - Answer-Family history of depression, anxiety disorders, or PTSD, depression or anxiety disorder at the time of the trauma, poor coping habits, early traumatic conditioning (Meaney Effect), severity and chronicity of trauma, and failed extinction learning Treatments for stress disorders - Answer-- Medication: Anxiolytics, antidepressants, antipsychotics, sleep medications - Psychotherapy: CBT, EMDR, group therapy, stress management training Critical Incident Stress Debriefing - Answer-Process where you get a group of people together who suffered a collective trauma and you take them through different structured phases - Used for acute stress Basic steps of critical incident stress debriefing - Answer-1. Fact phase 2. Reaction phase 3. Symptom phase 4. Teaching phase5. Reentry phase Fact phase - Answer-Ask victims to tell their stories (The facts, nothing about emotions etc) Reaction phase - Answer-Ask victims to report their thoughts and feelings about the incident Symptom phase - Answer-Solicit symptomatology and suggest coping strategies Teaching phase - Answer-Educate victims regarding traumas and typical reactions to trauma Reentry phase - Answer-Wrap-up, answer Q's, provide referrals, develop plan of action