termination has occurred; She feels abandoned by these outside systems upon termination. Janes partner expressed Jane became extremely aggressive after the sudden loss of her previous therapist.
Client and Social Worker Relationship As a social work intern, Alison has the ability meet a variety of clients and learn how to purposely utilize social work practices, social justice, and building allies. Alison is a 30-year-old, Caucasian woman who identifies as being heterosexual. Alison is financially middle-class, stability housed, and is disabled. Alison’s biological father is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and self-medicated with cannabis for over 30 years. Alison has seen first hand how this illness presents itself in the family system
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This research made the assessment and treatment planning of Jane flow much smoother. Alison’s social circle is primarily African-American, homosexual women. While the intern is heterosexual, her social circle has taught her aspects of the African-American culture and the culture within the LGBTQ community. The intern does not feel it is currently important, therapeutically, to disclose her sexual orientation to Jane. Alison has a post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis and a life-time history of trauma. This diagnosis and history of trauma allows for therapeutic empathic understanding, “this ability to see completely through the client’s eyes, to adopt his frame of reference (Rogers, 1980). When Alison asked Jane about her nightmares, Alison asked if the nightmares had fire in them. Jane looked at Alison with a completely blank, sad, face, stared her in the eyes for the first time in the assessment and stated, “I have seen tons of doctors and therapists in my life, you are the only one who has ever known exactly what is in my nightmares before I have even told you.” According to Rogers, empathy consists of several components, being able to adopt the client’s perspective, entering the client’s private perceptual
DOI: 5/23/2015. The patient is a 47 -year-old female crew member who sustained emotional distress and anxiety when she was pranked by her coworkers.
Mary’s Grandmother had begun a savings program for Mary’s college and the fund paid for Mary to attend undergraduate college at Florida Atlantic University. Mary had chosen Social work for her college education, which she continued as an advanced standing student and she received her Master’s degree in Social work in less than five years. Part of both undergraduate and graduate school Mary did internships at behavioral health facilities, where she became involved with persons struggling with chemical addictions. Mary liked and enjoyed this work so she went to work at a private facility for substance abuse. It was shortly after she began working at the facility when a Clinical Director from another office in West Palm beach, came to her and discussed Mary taking over the position as the Clinical Supervisor at the Port St Lucie office.
The claimant testified he has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which cause him to have running thoughts, lake of sleep, and paranoia. Crowds, smells, loud noises, or perception of things triggers him. He stated he is hyper-vigilant and watches everything. He also has panic attacks and starts breathing heavy, sweating, and has a tight feeling in his chest. He has problems sleeping which interferes with his concentration. In a typical day, he goes up, goes to group counseling, reads, takes a short walk, and mainly stays to himself. The only household chores he does is clean his room. He further testified, he has been sober since 2012 but has relapsed three time. However, he went into treatment the same week he relapsed. The last time
It is well known that emergency service workers are exposed to multiple situations deemed traumatic over their careers, with the accumulation of these events resulting in psychological injuries such as Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This brief will highlight the significant impact PTSD has on emergency service workers and will discuss strategies that could be implemented to combat this debilitating problem, focusing on two main contemporary leadership theories transformational and situational.
Veteran courts were established to help counsel, mentor, and treat veterans with the care they needed. The court was established by Robert Russell in Buffalo, NY after he noticed a rise in veterans returning to his court. The court provides these veterans what they need to get back on track. These veteran courts should be an alternate to these once soldiers, so they can get the necessary treatment.
Great case study, I like your scenario. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental condition that take place in a person mind (Cobum, 2018). PTSD is so real that it disrupts the individual and their family’s life. The person goes thru a traumatic event, such as rape, childhood abuse, combat, a near-death experience that they just can’t forget. This particular event causes them to have flashbacks, or nightmare. There are some people who have PTSD, but have not gone thru a traumatic event but have lost a loved one that causes them to have PTSD. PTSD affect the brain, but the deeps of it son unclear (Cobum, 2018). It was believe to be a condition that only people that engage in combat get, but that theory has proven false, because it can
The topic of this paper is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) viewed and discussed through a trauma theory lens. PTSD is typically associated with veteran and military personnel; in fact, one in six Army and Marine veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and women are more than twice as likely to develop the disorder than man (Satcher, Tepper, Thrashwer, & Rachel, 2012). Although usually associated with the military, PTSD affects many different facets of the population, such as minorities, the LGBTQ community, individuals with low socioeconomic status, and individuals exposed to disasters (Satcher et al., 2012). The paper outlines what PTSD is, the effects of the disorder, the neurobiological component of it,
A pro was that Carol was very passionate about her job and, therefore, was very informative. She gladly answered questions, like when I asked about what technology they use. I’ve seen the speech monitors but I didn’t know they worked with worksheets and other tools. She explained the drawbacks and pros of using the machine. The con was that the machine is heavy for certain patients and can’t be hauled around. They use apps too to assist patients and help them improve in their recovery or learning. The other pro was that Carol had an assistant who answered questions about school. She said the programs are competitive and hard but worth it. I asked her if her degree in teaching helped her or benefitted her education experience. Sadly, it doesn’t but it helps to understand how children grow and
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5), the projected lifetime risk for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is 8.7% by the age of 75 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). While 8.7% may not initially seem like much, that is almost 28 million people living in the United States who could develop PTSD by the time they turn 75. The most disconcerting aspect about this statistic is that it does not include other factors that increase the risk of developing PTSD. The DSM-V diagnostic criteria for PTSD expanded the scope of PTSD diagnosis by no longer requiring the individual to fear for one’s life when exposed to a traumatic event; this illustrates just how important a
“Currently, for a diagnosis of PTSD, the student must experience a traumatic event in which he/she perceives a threat to either self or others, and must experience distress (horror, fear, helplessness)” (Kataoka et al. 2012). Traumatic events can range from childhood trauma, an assault, a medical trauma, natural disasters, school bullying, a mugging or robbery, an attack by an animal, a major car accident, and more. “The three symptom clusters for PTSD include reexperiencing (for children, this can be repetitive play or reenacting the trauma in play), numbing and avoidance (such as avoiding traumatic reminders and talking about [the] trauma, not participating in activities previously enjoyed), and
The mental disorder I chose was Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The DSM-IV-TR classifies it as one type of anxiety disorder. Clinicians need to understand PTSD, and identify the different symptoms and behaviors. There are PTSD characteristics associated with any trauma exposure, which can put the victim in a state of psychological shock. This can happen after a life threating, traumatic event like military combat, natural disasters, sexual assault, or any other threat of death or serious injury. It can also happen by learning about a traumatic event to others, involving injury, physical threat, or death especially to those who are close. Clinicians must identify these characteristics associated with PTSD. Symptoms and behaviors that
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition develops after a person is exposed to one or more traumatic events, (either experiencing it or witnessing it). Symptoms may include disturbing recurring flashbacks, severe anxiety, hyper arousal and nightmare, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event.
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a widespread disorder that affects certain individuals psychologically, behaviorally, and emotionally following the experience of a traumatic event (Lee et al., 2005, p. 135). However, because of inconsistencies regarding the percentage of individuals who experience PTSD and the percentage of individuals who subsequently develop PTSD, researchers hypothesize that both biological and environmental factors contribute to the development of PTSD (Wolf et al. 2010, p. 328). In order gain a better understanding of this disorder and to discover contributing and predicative factors which contribute to the development of PTSD, this paper analyses the historical context and prevalence of PTSD, the
According to a Tanielian and Jaycox (2008) study, as of September 2014 there were approximately 2.7 million American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars”. Of the 2.7 million at least 20% of the veterans in Iraq and Afghanistan wars obtained PTSD and/or depression. However, it was noted that when interviewed, the military counselors stated that they believe that the percentage rate of veterans with PTSD was much higher. The number is said to continue to increase when combined with traumatic brain injury (TBI).