Учебно-методическое пособие для студентов специальностей «Педагогика и психология»

«Fear and compassion are two sides of the same coin...and both 
have been in abundant supply in the United States since September 11, 
2001
»
In groups share your ideas on the statement given below:
Events like September 11, 2001 and Beslan September 1, 2004 have 
re-shaped our understanding o f ourselves and our place in the world.
Read the article «Recovery fro m Traumatic Stress» and fill in the
gaps with the parts А, В, C, D and E. There is one part that you do not
need to use
,
A) Usually no other treatment is needed other than that offered by a
good friend’s concern and, for a limited time, sleeping pills at night. For all 
those who could be described as suffering from the symptoms of acute 
stress disorder, there are thousands more who may find that their general 
mood has been altered by the terrorists’ atrocity B) Others have developed 
post'traumatic stress disorder as a result of living through a time of great 
fear, while witnessing an event that could possibly involve death or injury 
to family, friends or colleagues at a time when they felt helpless because 
they were unable to influence the outcome.
C) The survey showed that more than 30% people were injured in the 
terrible disaster and most of them suffered a long post-traumatic stress.
D) They will be numbed by the event, emotionally unresponsive, 
indifferent to their surroundings to varying degrees and have a sense that 
such a ghastly event couldn’t really have happened.
E) Both medication and psychotherapy have their place in the 
treatment o f post-traumatic stress disorder. There is debate over the most 
efficient form o f psychotherapy, but what is not in dispute is that the 
therapist needs to be sympathetic and empathetic.
Recovery from T raum atic Stress
It will take years to clear the minds of some of those who were 
witnesses, directly or not, to the terrorist attack on the twin towers of the 
World Trade Center.
After experiencing a traumatic event, many people showed signs of 
acute stress disorder. Though it has similar symptoms to post-traumatic 
stress disorder, it is, however troublesome and short-lived, like the dust 
clouds. Acute stress disorder begins within a month o f the incident, lasts 
for not less than two weeks, but not more than four weeks. Many people 
who suffer from acute stress disorder have the nightmares and flashbacks 
characteristic o f posttraumatic stress disorder, but they also show various 
psychological defence mechanisms.
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1 They may have transient amnesia, so that much o f the detail o f the
horror is apparently forgotten. Those who have suffered from acute stress
disorder often say that once they can start to talk repeatedly about their
experiences, they begin to improve. They benefit from the ear of
understanding and kindly confident who is prepared to listen to the same
story many times over, and on each occasion be as interested, empathetic 
and sympathetic as the first time they heard it.
2. 
A New Yorker told me that the only difference he had noticed in 
his mood was that his usual autumnal early morning depression was slightly 
deeper than it was usually. Several British patients who watched the 
television images o f the planes crashing into the towers and the Pentagon 
over and over again reported similar changes in their mood and feelings. 
Other patients with a history o f psychological problems have noticed a 
significant deterioration in their mood; depression, if present, has been
insomnia, anxiety attacks and a 
general, but undefined, sense o f unease and uncertainty.
Post- traumatic stress disorder affects those who have been in terrific
situations where they have either suffered or been threatened by serious 
injury , with the possibility o f death.
3 After surviving the horrific incident, the image o f it is constantly 
recalled, its memory triggered through any o f the senses that would remind 
the person o f the disaster. Not unnaturally, people with post-traumatic 
stress disorder arrange their lives so that these triggers are avoided. Many 
patients develop severe depression, which may appear in many forms. The 
symptoms may recur on the anniversary o f the date.
4 This desire accounts for the need o f those who have had terrible 
experiences to seek the company o f those who have undergone similar 
ones. The aim o f the therapy is to gradually desensitize people to the 
haunting memory o f the trauma and to remove any habits that they may 
nave adopted to avoid confronting the memories that interfere with their 
domestic or professional life. Meanwhile, the depressive component o f the 
disorder is treated with antidepressants. The ones favoured are those that 
also have a strong anti-anxiety effect 
(From: The Times, 2001.)
Answer the questions:
What is acute stress disorder? What are its symptoms? How lone 
does it last? 
f.
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^ Ъ аі symptoms characterize post-traumatic disorder? What kind of
people does it affect?
What is used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder?

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