NR607 Week 6 2024/2025 Exam
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Dissociative disorders - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-repeated discontinuity or
disruption of the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity,
emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior
-characterized by dissociative symptoms that occur as an adaptive defense
response to trauma
-may impede various elements of psychological functioning, such as
consciousness, memory, emotion, identity, & motor control
-Stigma may hinder tx
• myths about the existence & validity of these disorders
-primary considerations: Safety & social problems
crucial to managing dissociative responses: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Trauma-
informed care
-Dissociation-specific psychotherapy
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,Somatic symptoms or psychophysiological disorders - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-
challenging to dx & treat
-characterized by physical symptoms or dysfunction linked to psychological
factors or emotional stress
-Psychotherapies such as CBT & stress management
• important to reduce symptom burden & promote health
How the nervous system responds to trauma - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Flee
Fight
Freeze
Collapse
Freeze vs Shutdown - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Freeze
-HYPERaroused
-muscles tense & full of energy, but can't release it
-similar levels of sympathetic & parasympathetic activation
-Increased HR/BP
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,-client might say, "I feel stuck," "I can't move," or "I feel like I am encased in
cement."
-Eyes widen
-body is ready to return to fight/flight as soon as the threat passes
Shutdown
-HYPOaroused
-muscles flaccid & loose
-parasympathic nervous system is dominant
-Decreased HR/BP/temp
-client may not be able to speak at all
-Blank stare
-Sensory info stops at the thalamus. It doesn't reach the cortex (so it's not
integrated).
• client less aware of their internal & external world.
-Endorphins release to numb pain.
• Dynorphins release, can make the client feel detached from their body.
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, -Can result in fainting
How trauma impacts the 4 different types of memory: Semantic memory -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔-How Trauma Can Affect It
• prevent info (like words, images, sounds, etc.) from different parts of the
brain from combining to make a semantic memory.
-Related Brain Area
• temporal lobe & inferior parietal cortex
• collect infor from different brain areas to create semantic memory.
How trauma impacts the 4 different types of memory: Episodic memory -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔-How Trauma Can Affect It
• shutdown episodic memory & fragment the sequence of events.
-Related Brain Area
• hippocampus
• responsible for creating & recalling episodic memory.
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Dissociative disorders - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-repeated discontinuity or
disruption of the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity,
emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior
-characterized by dissociative symptoms that occur as an adaptive defense
response to trauma
-may impede various elements of psychological functioning, such as
consciousness, memory, emotion, identity, & motor control
-Stigma may hinder tx
• myths about the existence & validity of these disorders
-primary considerations: Safety & social problems
crucial to managing dissociative responses: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Trauma-
informed care
-Dissociation-specific psychotherapy
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,Somatic symptoms or psychophysiological disorders - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-
challenging to dx & treat
-characterized by physical symptoms or dysfunction linked to psychological
factors or emotional stress
-Psychotherapies such as CBT & stress management
• important to reduce symptom burden & promote health
How the nervous system responds to trauma - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Flee
Fight
Freeze
Collapse
Freeze vs Shutdown - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Freeze
-HYPERaroused
-muscles tense & full of energy, but can't release it
-similar levels of sympathetic & parasympathetic activation
-Increased HR/BP
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,-client might say, "I feel stuck," "I can't move," or "I feel like I am encased in
cement."
-Eyes widen
-body is ready to return to fight/flight as soon as the threat passes
Shutdown
-HYPOaroused
-muscles flaccid & loose
-parasympathic nervous system is dominant
-Decreased HR/BP/temp
-client may not be able to speak at all
-Blank stare
-Sensory info stops at the thalamus. It doesn't reach the cortex (so it's not
integrated).
• client less aware of their internal & external world.
-Endorphins release to numb pain.
• Dynorphins release, can make the client feel detached from their body.
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, -Can result in fainting
How trauma impacts the 4 different types of memory: Semantic memory -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔-How Trauma Can Affect It
• prevent info (like words, images, sounds, etc.) from different parts of the
brain from combining to make a semantic memory.
-Related Brain Area
• temporal lobe & inferior parietal cortex
• collect infor from different brain areas to create semantic memory.
How trauma impacts the 4 different types of memory: Episodic memory -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔-How Trauma Can Affect It
• shutdown episodic memory & fragment the sequence of events.
-Related Brain Area
• hippocampus
• responsible for creating & recalling episodic memory.
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