Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD, or Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a life-threatening events such as military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood. Most survivors of trauma return to normal given a little time. However, some people will have stress reactions that do not go away on their own, or may even get worse over time. These individuals may develop PTSD. People who suffer from PTSD often relive the experience through nightmares and flashbacks, have difficulty sleeping, and feel detached or estranged, and these symptoms can be severe enough and last long enough to significantly impair the person’s daily life.

Throughout life, both children and adults experience varying amounts of stress in their everyday lives. For the most part, this has been proven to be healthy and crucial in strengthening their response to such stimuli later in life. This paper will focus on the findings of various studies in which researchers have found links between stress exposure and childhood development. Specifically, this paper will focus on the effects of what is known as toxic stress and its effects on the development of a child and its role in the development of mental disorders as the child transitions into adulthood.

Such toxic stress can have damaging effects on learning, behavior, and health across the lifespan. Learning how to cope with adversity is an important part of healthy child development. The most effective prevention is to reduce exposure of young children to extremely stressful conditions. Research also indicates that supportive, responsive relationships with caring adults as early in life as possible can prevent or reverse the damaging effects of toxic stress response (Center on Developing Child, nd). By establishing clear lines of communication between adults and children, and home and school, parents and teachers can help to shape children’s perceptions in informed ways. During times of trouble, when emotions run high, parents and teachers can help children develop the skills necessary to manage their feelings, to confront unpleasant or adverse realities, and to acquire greater emotional stability. In order to support children in better understanding their world, adults may have to help them come to terms with circumstances that are frightening, confusing, overwhelming, or possibly unrelated to their past experience. By providing a safe and supportive environment and a healthy acceptance of all that is good in life, a calm and ready-to-listen adult can facilitate children’s well being, and help to alleviate the fear, dismay or confusion they may feel. In doing so, it is important to honor and nurture children’s sensitivity. Although parents and teachers cannot shelter children from all adversity, they are well positioned to help children learn about the imbalances in the world, to better comprehend their impact, and to find thoughtful ways to strike a comfortable and meaningful balance of their own (Foster & Matthews,

Has anybody in this class know anybody or themselves that have went through a traumatic event in their life, such as abuse, war, witnessing a murder, and so on? Well if you do you or that person are at risk of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a relatively new psychological diagnosis, but it is a kind of anxiety disorder. For example after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 has caused PTSD in some of the people that were involved in first response to the Twin Towers, people who saw the disaster occur, and even people who have lost relatives and friends in that tragic event. Some symptoms that occur are

One awful damaging effect of this stress is that too much of it piling onto our youth can cause them to self-harm or even

The aggression can cause children to have an different type of mood swing than others that does not have aggression.It mostly has a after impact of growing up with mental health of 20230 of children from the middle ages from 2 to 17 in USA(Tuner2).All the aggression in the children causes them to have heart attack and blood pressure at a young age. The mental can come from a different aspect, such as abusing there own bodies with drugs(7). When children become an angry aggressive person they need help to control their actions around their peers. Even though it is important to know of behaviors that that send signal that presences of a child

Mental health is a big part of obesity many children are suffering from disorders like depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and even suicide attempts. With the way media portrays body image today it is hard for a child to not get discouraged. Women in magizes are photo shopped and air brushed to look as skinny as possible, men are photo shopped and air brushed to look toned and fit. Young men, women and children look at these photos and see an unrealistic person. With that they set unrealistic goals and end up harming themselves in the end. By forming eating disorders and mental disorders, eating disorders by trying to archive a body type that is not real and mental disorders by looking at the results of not having that body type. Children

There are protests, shootings, fights, and even terrorists’ attacks. A lot of these violent behaviors were triggered from poor mental health. At school, there a lot of fights. A big reason why students bully, or fight, was how they were raised by their parents. Kids look up to their parents and think that they are right; and if they do it, it must be right. According to the website, empoweringparents.com, “Is bullying at home? —maybe there are older siblings, extended family members or parents who use aggression or intimidation to get their way.” Children also look up to their siblings which can lead them in the wrong path of violence. The more violence from physical abuse, especially spanking, the more likely the child will grow up with the same

Stressful environment is a key factor when it comes to child development. Stress can be the molding of a child’s life. There are several different contributing factor of stress that could affect a child. Stress for a child can come from many areas of their life, such as, in the home, neighborhood, school, community, family issues. However, it is extremely important to realize that there is no greater cause of stress to a child than from their parents (Blake 26). Witnessing verbal and physical abuse in the home is a very

In some cases, childhood obesity is caused by psychological problems. For example, a young boy's parents are getting divorced, the young kid will use food to cope with his negative emotions. Eating while sad or depressed is extremely dangerous because it can lead to obesity and obesity can lead to other unhealthy problems such as a stroke. Even if a child is under a lot of stress or anxiety they will use food as a coping

Another idea by Hank Pellissier states that children are under more stress now than they have ever been

Data: From 2009 to 2013 the number of individuals in substance abuse treatment on a single day decreased from 45,149 to 42,945. The 2010 U.S. Census estimates reveal that there children ages 5 years and younger living in the United States were well beyond 20 million (Howden & Meyer, 2011). The risk of onset developing childhood mental health issues is greatest in the first 5 years of life (Osofsky & Lieberman, 2011). Ultimately mental health insult in infancy can increase a child’s risk for permanent future behavioral problems (Hemmi, Wolke, & Schneider, 2011). Early childhood interventions that can identify infant mental health challenges can

According to an article on Nationwide Children’s, “stress is a common part of every child’s life. A certain amount of stress is normal, but too much stress can be unhealthy…

The school is not the only place where young people may be exposed to violence a continued study of students at the public middle and high school. Some studies have documented a relationship between exposures to violence and a child’s aggressive behavior as well as numerous forms of psychological distress, including, anxiety depression, and PTSD symptoms (Singer et al., 1999).

• Try to find out if something is causing increased stress for your child. Some things that can cause stress include teasing and