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| educational information for acute stress reaction |
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- symptoms are normal after trauma
- usually resolve in few days to weeks
- does not usually lead to psychological problems
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| mental health protocol in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic event? |
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| what does psychological first aid include? |
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· ensuring that the person has basic physical needs met i.e. food, shelter, and safety
· familiarity with disaster and recovery efforts
· learning relaxation exercises, avoiding upsetting situations
· mobilizing one’s support network including family, friends, as well as any professionals that are needed
· provision of education
· open effective communication of accurate and timely information
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- made for first responders
- 10-20 members in a grp
- share thought, emotions, impressions
- encourge to focus on internal and external support
- tell them this is normal and symptoms should go away in few weeks if not we refer
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| Efficay of psychological debriefing and why |
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shown to either worsen symptoms or have no effect at all y:
- Premature exposure to traumatic memories may interfere with the “natural” recovery process that leads to traumatic material being consolidated and fading from consciousness
- Interferes with habituation and cognitive changes necessary for recovery
- Early focus on symptoms may lead to negative thoughts about oneself such as “why am I not better by now?”
- Excessive posttraumatic adrenergic activity facilitates encoding of traumatic memories thereby facilitating the development of ptsd
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- emperically proven
- not started for 14 days vs 72hrs debriefing
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| 2 commonly used cbt techn. to prevent or reduce ptsd |
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| exposure therapy and cognitive restructuring |
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| acute stree reaction is called wut in the military? |
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| operational stress reaction |
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B- brevity (physical an psychological refreshing)
I-immediate
C-contact
E-educate (expectancy's)
p-proximity
s-simplicity
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p-proximity
i-immediacy
e-expectancy
s-simplicity |
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| posttramtic distress reaction |
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emotional,cognitive,physical,interpersonal
very from mild to sever |
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| an alteration in the perception or experience of the external worldso that it seems strange or unreal EX: familiar places not seem unfamiliar |
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| alteration of perception in ones self (feeling like u r in a dream) |
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| my worst experience survey(mwes) |
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| lengthy interviews need to be given by a skilled clinician . these asses childs most stressful experience |
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| best validated instrument for ages of 6-17 bout 20-30 min 3 parts |
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| what r the 3 parts to ucla ptsd ri |
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part
1life time trauma screen
2.evalu objective and subjective aspects of exposure to trauma
3.22 q on a scale in regaurds to frequency of pstd symp |
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| tscc -trauma symptom check list for children |
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54 item self report question for 8-16yr
assess effects of trauma : depression, anxiety,anger,dissociation. takes 20min for non traumatized kids |
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