MarÃa Auxiliadora Ortuño Soria
Universidade de Porto, Portugal
Title: Looking at the caretaker: Systematic review of the significant people of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Biography
Biography: MarÃa Auxiliadora Ortuño Soria
Abstract
The increase of collective disasters, natural or provoked, in the last years, has remarked the impact and relevance of traumatic events in the personal, family, economic and labor areas; with it has been given the increase of the clinical diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The personal care required by the primary victim demands a direct contact with the signs and symptoms of this disorder, especially by the significant other, being the most vulnerable to develop a Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Secondary PostTraumatic Stress Disorder has progressively intensified its importance within health problems as political and social. Clinically it is characterized by presenting symptoms of PTSD emphasizing generalized stress, functional and somatic problems (Lahav, Stein, & Solomon, 2016). Emotionally it has been seen that conjugal relationships present a risk in their close, natural, intimate bond of love, confidentiality, and reproduction.
In the present review, the main objective was to identify articles on secondary stress disorder focusing on the second victim as the main figure. The results of this systematic review allow us to have a better understanding of the nature, prevalence, and research conducted on secondary stress in the significant person, however, It also allows us to see that there is little research on the subject, which is why a greater compilation of data is required in order to be able to give a significant support in the prevention, intervention and control schemes.