Cultural And Cultural Effects Of Trauma On Young Women

Jean Francis East and Susan J. Roll’s article: Women, Poverty, and Trauma: An Empowerment Practice Approach illustrates the benefits of applying empowerment theory in Social Work practice when working with women who’ve experienced poverty and trauma. Through their 20 years of experience in utilizing this approach, they learn that its effects have been rewarding and successful. The following paper is an analysis and critique of this intervention.

Anyone who deals regularly with victims of trauma or is exposed to graphic pictures or text of trauma, can experience the effects of secondary or vicarious trauma. Vicarious trauma (VT) will affect thinking, while secondary traumatic stress (STS), or compassion fatigue, affects feelings and behavior of the counselor. The purpose of this paper is to discuss man-made or natural disasters as well as personal trauma, and the counselor’s role in these situations. Skills to help the counselor deal with the effects of vicarious trauma will also be discussed in this assignment.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is caused by traumatic events such as wars and physical abuse. Patients with this disorder must undergo a variety of treatments to control its symptoms. Each culture is affected differently since people are raised based on their own culture’s beliefs. Gender also plays a big role in how the patients react to the disorder showing how the cultural view of gender changes the perspective of PTSD, there are different types of therapy that help to control it, desensitization, cognitive behavioral therapy, group and hypnotherapy not only no civilian patients are affected, war veterans has the most cases of PTSD. Gender also plays a big role in how the patients react to the disorder showing how the cultural view

The author of this article is Nigeen Akram. She was a volunteer who wanted to go to Iraq and study what was going on with Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). She interviewed a girl named Payam. She was a victim of FGM. All her life she wondered why her mother and grandmother did this to her. Her experience alone was terrifying not to mention the main procedure. This can give people insight on what is happening with females today. FGM is still around and many people still do it.

Many Somalian female infants continue to be mutilated at birth, though, based on longstanding religious imprecations and tradition. For instance, according to McDougall (1999), "Muslim women in Somalia are routinely victimized at birth or as children by genital mutilation (infibulation, or removal of the clitoris)

Childhood is a time for playdates and learning, a time for big dreams and imaginary adventures. Safety and security should not be questions that linger in uncertainty. However, this is not the case for many children across the globe. Thousands of children from all walks of life each day are faced with unspeakable horror and must deal with the resulting trauma from then on. However, in children, managing this trauma takes a different toll on the mind and heart than it does in adults. While the type of trauma may vary in pervasiveness across countries, trauma occurring in childhood has the ability to cause long term damage to the growing neurological functioning in the brain and negatively influence children’s spiritual development, wounding

Life is just like an unopen book where nobody knows what one can find in there. The feeling of been helped by someone you don’t await is very special. Sherman Alexis story is very is very powerfully written and in terms of cultural trauma, they are really reflecting on the experience of modern Native American characters. Even though the story is not necessarily just about life on the reservation it in term of the story those events are still hunting the removal to the reservation. This kind of lasting and unresolved cultural trauma is there on the background. The story “This is what it means To Say Phoenix, Arizona" is a very amazing story that tell us story of two young sentiments. They were both

Our culture, gender and ethnicity have a significant amount of influences that has begun to shape our mental health from the trauma that affects us due to crime and violence. Due to cultural, gender and ethnicity the response to our trauma can range from endless variations.

The authors presented information surrounded around the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, treatment and overall changes of health symptoms in women. Negative and positive symptoms were studied and consisted of things like exercise, healthy eating habits, and smoking to see if those things played a role or interfered with the effects of treatment on PTSD.

In some cultures, the common practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Africa and the Middle East, are causing concerns amongst these young girls.

Trauma occurs when a child has experienced an event that threatens or causes harm to her emotional and physical well-being. Events can include war, terrorism, natural disasters, but the most common and harmful to a child’s psychosocial well-being are those such as domestic violence, neglect, physical and sexual abuse, maltreatment, and witnessing a traumatic event. While some children may experience a traumatic event and go on to develop normally, many children have long lasting implications into adulthood.

Conjunctive faith allows one to consider the paradoxes of life and multiple truths of the universe and expand their sense of connection with others (Hutchinson, 2015). Universalizing faith focuses on an awareness of justice, injustices, and love resulting in selfless actions (Hutchinson, 2015). Although many never reach the final stages of faith development, Fowler’s theory of faith development can still be used to critically evaluate how one utilizes faith to cope with life’s challenges as the go through the stages of faith

It is shocking for me to see the statistics about trauma for young children. According to the article, Understanding Early Childhood Mental Health, it states that an estimated 44, 512 children younger than 3 years were exposed to trauma sometime during 2009 and this represents 33.4% of all children who were exposed to trauma during that year. This numbers are higher than I expected. This case of trauma to children will have a huge impact to children’s learning as they will have some symptoms of trauma, such as sleep problems, eating problems, stress, regression and aggressive outburn as the PowerPoint mentions. Their education will be affected as they do not have that energy to go to school and be consistent in their studies.

Ritual trauma is known to be physical, sexual, and psychological abuse of both children and adults. The abuse usually happens within cults and involve ritualistic or religious elements. The physical abuse includes intense torturing that is so sever it often leads to death. The abusers tend to use mind control techniques, ritual treats, and even drugs to influence their victims to do whatever they want them to do. Many victims of the sexual abuse end up with intense scaring of their private areas. Victims have admitted that at one point they were required to do sexual acts to animal. The abuse in these ritual trauma cases are endless which makes it nearly impossible for victims to recover from it

Over the past several years there has been progressive broadcasting of people living polygamous lifestyles. People have lived polygamous lifestyles since Biblical times, and still do today. According to B. A. Robinson polygamy is having more than one spouse, but there are several types of polygamy. One type is polygyny, in which the male takes on several wives. Another type is polyandry in which a woman has several husbands. There is also a third type called group marriage in which a family entails of multiple husbands and multiple wives living together in the same household. Polygyny is the type most heard of in today’s society. Polygamy is still practiced today, “However, polygamy is illegal in all 50