Psychology Assignment Help| Karen is a 19-year-old female who has been referred to care
Karen is a 19-year-old female who has been referred to care after being seen in the emergency department
following a violent sexual assault. She was working late one evening at the shopping mall and walked alone to
her car after dark. She was assaulted, beaten, and thankfully a passerby saw her lying in some bushes and
called 911. Initially she was resistant to mental health care, but now, 2 months later, she feels as though she
needs help because she is experiencing a collection of symptoms including flashbacks, dreams of the assault,
palpitations, anxiety, and a sense that she is watching the assault happen to her This sense of watching the
assault as if she was an observer is characteristic of which diagnostic domain of PTSD?
Intrusion symptoms
Avoiding stimuli
Autonomic arousal
Clinical significance