Impact of vietnam veterans' arousal and avoidance on spouses' perceptions of family life

Hendrix, Charles C.; Erdmann, Marjorie A.; Briggs, Kathleen

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“…This hypothesis is consistent with findings that distress in spouses is correlated with PTSD symptom severity in combat veterans (e.g., Riggs, Byrne, Weathers, & Litz, 1998). Furthermore, investigations have revealed that certain types of PTSD symptoms in veterans (avoidance, dissociation, emotional numbing, and anger) are particularly tied to higher psychological and marital distress in spouses (Evans, McHugh, Hopwood, & Watt, 2003;Hendrix, Erdmann, & Briggs 1998;Nelson Goff, Crow, Reisbig, & Hamilton, 2007;Riggs et al, 1998;Solomon, Waysman, Avitzur, & Enoch, 1991). These findings support the notion that overt expressions of symptoms in veterans with PTSD lead to distress in the spouse.…”

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Psychological and marital distress in spouses of Vietnam veterans: Importance of spouses’ perceptions

Renshaw

Rodebaugh

Rodrigues

2010

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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Psychological and marital distress in spouses of Vietnam veterans: Importance of spouses’ perceptions

Renshaw

Rodebaugh

Rodrigues

2010

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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“…In the worst case, they even talked about constant worries when leaving home that their husband might harm himself. It seems to us that this ongoing situation is one of the most difficult for the wives in our study, and this is consis-tent with former researchers who point to the numbness/ avoidance symptoms of PTSD as the most harmful to the family (Evans et al, 2003;Hendrix, Erdmann, & Briggs, 1998;Riggs et al, 1998;Taft, Schumm, Panuzio, & Proctor, 2008).…”

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Conscripted without Induction Order: Wives of Former Combat Veterans with PTSD Speak

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Doron²

2013

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This study examines the lives of wives who are living with former combat soldiers with chronic PTSD, from the subjective perspective of the wives themselves. Structured interviews with 20 wives indicated the following main results: 1) About 2/3 of the wives reported that, for a long time, they did not know what the problem with their husband was and had no idea that it was connected to his military experience. 2) All of the wives described many negative effects of their husband's situation on daily family functioning. In most cases, the wives described their husbands as handicapped individuals who could do very few things that are usually associated with normal family functioning. 3) Most wives described their husbands as "absent-present": The husband was present physically but would often detach himself from everyone around him. 4) Most wives reported suffering from anxieties of all kinds and other symptoms, which also characterized their husbands. Study results are discussed in light of relevant theories.

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“…This is a significant omission, given the centrality of conditioned avoidance of trauma reminders to posttraumatic psychopathology (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In fact, some evidence from clinical research implicates avoidance as the class of symptoms most detrimental to psychosocial functioning in trauma survivors (Hendrix, Erdmann, Briggs, 1998; Samper, Taft, King, King, 2004; Solomon & Mikulincer, 2007), and may predict posttraumatic psychopathology better than other trauma-related symptom clusters (Bryant, Marosszeky, Crooks, Baguley, & Gurka, 2000; North et al, 1999; North, Oliver, & Pandya, 2012). …”

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Learning models of PTSD: Theoretical accounts and psychobiological evidence

Lissek

Meurs

2015

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Learning abnormalities have long been centrally implicated in posttraumatic psychopathology. Indeed of all anxiety disorders, PTSD may be most clearly attributable to discrete, aversive learning events. In PTSD, such learning is acquired during the traumatic encounter and is expressed as both conditioned fear to stimuli associated with the event and more general over-reactivity—or failure to adapt—to intense, novel, or fear-related stimuli. The relatively straightforward link between PTSD and these basic, evolutionarily old, learning processes of conditioning, sensitization, and habituation affords models of PTSD comprised of fundamental, experimentally tractable mechanisms of learning that have been well characterized across a variety of mammalian species including humans. Though such learning mechanisms have featured prominently in explanatory models of psychological maladjustment to trauma for at least 90 years, much of the empirical testing of these models has occurred only in the past two decades. The current review delineates the variety of theories forming this longstanding tradition of learning-based models of PTSD, details empirical evidence for such models, attempts an integrative account of results from this literature, and specifies limitations of, and future directions for, studies testing learning models of PTSD.

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Impact of vietnam veterans' arousal and avoidance on spouses' perceptions of family life

Cited by 28 publications

References 18 publications

Psychological and marital distress in spouses of Vietnam veterans: Importance of spouses’ perceptions

Psychological and marital distress in spouses of Vietnam veterans: Importance of spouses’ perceptions

Conscripted without Induction Order: Wives of Former Combat Veterans with PTSD Speak

Learning models of PTSD: Theoretical accounts and psychobiological evidence

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