Clinical Psychology and Organizational Behavior · Psychological Disorders: Conceptions of mental disorders, assessment and diagnosis, DSM and other tools · 1 mark · Multiple choice
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with:
Allostatic load
Allostatic load after extracting the effect of traumatic memory
Traumatic memory after extracting the allostatic load
Injustice faced by the trauma survivors in everyday life years after facing the initial traumatic event
PTSD is linked to chronic stress, and the wear on the body from repeated or prolonged stress is called allostatic load. The other options take one part out of the picture or describe a social cause, which is not what the disorder is associated with in this sense.