Year: 2012
Type: review
Abstract: Post-traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD) consists of a pattern of symptoms that include cognitive, affective, sensory and behavioral systems.In PTSD, the individual experiences disturbing emotions and sensations such as anxiety, panic, depression, anger, tension, high startle response and hypervigilance as a result of reexperiencing traumatic memories, flashbacks, attention difficulties, memory loss, nightmares and intrusive thoughts.The cognitive approach asserts that cognitions play a triggering and maintaining role for these symptoms and tries to explain them with the information processing framework.According to this approach, the traumatic event that is experienced is processed differently from daily, ordinary events.This different information processing strategy stands out in attention, memory, dissociation, cognitive beliefs, cognition-affect processes and coping strategies.In the present paper, research on how these constructs that are parts of the information processing in cognitive systems function in PTSD will be reviewed.
Source: Journal of Human Sciences
Authors: Gamze Yıldırımlı, Ahmet Tosun
Institutions: Bursa Uludağ Üni̇versi̇tesi̇, Okan University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1480474895