Trauma Problems, Symptoms, and Solutions

Trauma Problem Symptoms Real Example Solutions

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Flashbacks,
(PTSD)nightmares, hypervigilance,
A soldieravoidance,
returning from
emotional
Cognitive
combatnumbness,
Behavioral
who experience
irritab
Thera

Acute Stress Disorder (ASD)

Dissociation, intrusive thoughts, A
sleep
person
disturbances,
involved in hypervigilance,
aTrauma-focused
car accident who
short-term
CBT,
is temp
mind

Complex Trauma (C-PTSD)

Emotional dysregulation, chronicAshame,
child who
fragmented
grew up in
memories,
Dialectical
an abusiveBehavior
difficulty
household,
with
Therare
s

Developmental Trauma Attachment issues, poor emotional

A child
regulation,
who experienced
cognitive
Attachment-focused
delays,
neglectbehavioral
during early
therap
probl
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Vicarious Trauma (Secondary

Emotional
Trauma)
exhaustion, detachment,
A trauma
empathy
counselor
fatigue,who
intrusive
Regular
beginssupervision,
thoughts
experiencing
related
self-c
nig
t

Traumatic Grief (Complicated

Prolonged
Grief) mourning, inability to A
move
parent
forward,
who lost
preoccupation
a child
Griefand
counseling,
is
with
unable
the loss,
narrative
to return
soci

Dissociative Disorders Memory gaps, feeling detached A

from
person
reality,
who identity
experiences
shifts
Trauma-informed
periods of time
therapy,
they

Moral Injury Guilt, shame, self-condemnation,A anger,

veterandepression
who feels guilt
Cognitive
and shame
Processing
over action
Ther