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post-traumatic stress disorder

vr.tr.post-traumatic-stress-disorder · XCT.STA

Let an agent explain post-traumatic stress disorder in general terms with attribution to diagnostic and clinical sources, describe treatments and support as documented, counter stigma, and route people in distress or crisis to professional help immediately.

Thing Registry Cross-cutting context

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain post-traumatic stress disorder in general terms with attribution to diagnostic and clinical sources, describe treatments and support as documented, counter stigma, and route people in distress or crisis to professional help immediately.

A mental health condition that can develop after exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence, characterised by intrusive memories, avoidance, negative changes in mood and cognition and heightened arousal lasting more than a month, affecting adults, children and teenagers, veterans, survivors of disasters and violence, and described in culture-specific forms; it is diagnosed by clinicians and treated with evidence-based psychotherapies and sometimes medication, and this entry gives general information only, routing people in crisis to help.

What it is for: A trauma-related mental health condition.

It can be explain the condition generally; describe treatments and support; counter stigma; route to help.

Distinguishing features

Trauma exposure

Symptom clusters

Clinical diagnosis

Treatable

What it looks like

Not visible; symptoms assessed clinically.

How it is recognised

Follows traumatic exposure

Intrusion, avoidance, mood and arousal symptoms

Acute stress reactions are shorter; adjustment disorders follow other stressors

Related models

is a kind of - category

stress-related disorders

is a kind of - category

sequelae

is related to - clinicians who treat PTSD

psychologist

is related to - a traumatic exposure

rape

In practice

Families and kinds

PTSD in adults

PTSD in children and teenagers

combat-related PTSD

complex PTSD

culture-specific and related presentations

Standards and regulation

DSM and ICD diagnostic criteria

Clinical treatment guidelines

Veterans and victims support frameworks

Failure modes and hazards

Agents diagnosing or treating

Stigmatising language

Failing to route crises to help

Also called

extreme weather post-traumatic stress disorderkhyâl capposttraumatic stress disorder in children and teenscombat disorderNorthern syndromepost-traumatic embitterment disordersurvivor guiltchildbirth-related posttraumatic stress disordercomplex post-traumatic stress disordersoldiers heartthousand-yard starepost-traumatic stress disorder in childrentrench neurosiswar neurosisOld sergeant's syndromePost-abortion survivor syndrome

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What PTSD is.

General information.

Definition

Definition and symptoms.

Definition

Definition.

  1. How do diagnostic manuals define PTSD, and what are its symptom clusters and course? provenance
  2. Is someone in crisis now, needing crisis services or emergency help? boundary

Groups

PTSD in different groups.

Groups

Groups.

  1. How does PTSD present in children and teenagers, veterans and survivors of disasters and violence, and what culture-specific forms are described? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific group? action
Care Treatment and support.

Medicine.

Treatment

Treatments.

Treatment

Treatments.

  1. What evidence-based psychotherapies and medications are recommended by guidelines? provenance
  2. Is the user asking about their own treatment, which needs a clinician? boundary

Support

Support and self-care.

Support

Support.

  1. What support resources exist for people with PTSD and their families, and what self-care do health bodies suggest alongside treatment? provenance
  2. Which entry fits mental health services? action
Society Stigma and prevention.

Attribution.

Stigma

Stigma and language.

Stigma

Stigma.

  1. How is stigma around PTSD documented, and what language do clinicians and people with lived experience recommend? provenance
  2. Is the presentation non-stigmatising? boundary

Prevention

Prevention and early intervention.

Prevention

Prevention.

  1. What does research say about preventing PTSD after trauma and about early interventions? provenance
  2. Which findings are contested? boundary
Learn Research and teaching.

Education.

Research

Research.

Research

Research.

  1. What is known about the neurobiology and risk factors of PTSD, according to research? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did understanding develop from shell shock and combat stress to the modern diagnosis? provenance
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should complex PTSD be a separate entry?
  • How should guidelines be linked?
  • How should crisis resources be linked by country?
Draft as JSON