Cultural And Cultural Effects Of Trauma On Young Women

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.

One major effect of well-developed spirituality include having a positive and meaningful view of life and developing a sense of coherence that allows survivors of abuse and neglect to comprehend and make meaningful sense of trauma, and manage personal resources to deal with stressors in life (Glenn, 2014). As a Christian it is easy to make the correlation between a strong, confident spiritual relationship with the ability to overcome struggles and trauma of our past. It is encouraging to see empirical research to support our beliefs.

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.

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

"I remember the blade. How it shone! There was a woman kneeling over me with the knife. I bit her; it was all I could do. Then three women came to hold me down. One of them sat on my chest. I bit her with all my might." These words reflect Banassiri Sylla’s account of her experience undergoing female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation (FGM), at the young age of eight in the Ivory Coast. This disturbing description of her struggle makes it hard to understand why any culture could support such a practice. Yet, it is estimated that about 132 million women and girls in about thirty African countries have undergone the same, or at least similar, cultural

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

Childhood trauma is one of the most heartbreaking situations to ever fathom happening. Childhood trauma includes neglect, maltreatment, physical and emotional abuse, and many other forms of mistreatment amongst children. Childhood trauma occurs between the ages of 0 and 6 years of age. When referencing to childhood trauma, one must take thought into who commits the abuse, who is affected by the abuse, and what long term effects can the abuse have on the victims. One must also take into consideration the sex differences when referring to childhood trauma. Numerous of studies have been conducted and many findings have been made. Prior to conducting this research paper, I only considered childhood trauma to be what it was and never considered the long term effects. Because of my assumption, I never even considered the other categories of the trauma.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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