Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Kailey Packham Lindsey

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Kailey Packham, Lindsey Wasserman, Jennifer Balangue& Keriakoula Papadatos

WHAT IS PTSD? Ø Type of anxiety disorder that anyone can get at any age and occurs after witnessing, experiencing a traumatic event or knowing someone that suffered through one. Who gets PTSD? Ø Veterans, victims of abuse, sexual assault, accidents, disasters, bombings…etc (Gill, Saligan, Henderson & Szaton, 2009)

Signs/Symptoms Ø Re-experiencing symptoms/avoidance symptoms/Hyper arousal (Gill, Saligan, Henderson & Szaton, 2009) Treatments Ø Cognitive/behavioural treatment Ø Exposure Therapy Ø Psychodynamic therapy Ø Family therapy Ø Eye movement Desensitization and reprocessing (

Factors that Increase Chances Ø Psychological factors Ø Sociocultural factors Ø Biological factors

Why do people get it? The cognitive and behaviour psychology perspective helps explain why people develop PTSD. After experiencing a traumatic event we mentally process a trauma and that can affect our behaviours. Can be severely impairing to daily routine

TR Model Ø Health Protection/ Health Promotion Model • Main goal: increase health and wellness

TR Intervention-Yoga • What is it? • How can it help? (Eyla, , n. d)

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