Psychological Analysis Of Cognitive Trauma

Sitting in the middle of the floor was a sixteen year old girl who had just finished a basketball game. Usually after games, the girl would sit with the rest of the team to watch the boys play. Instead, the girl walked out of the gym with tears freely falling from her cheeks hoping nobody would notice them. After she had sat down, a few members of the team noticed her absence and went looking for her. The reason the girl didn’t want to be seen with tears was because some others on the team had been experiencing the same thing that she was. What this girl was experiencing was emotional trauma created by her male coach. The

The term “Psychological trauma” refers to damage wrought from a traumatic event, which that damages one’s ability to cope with stressors. “Trauma” is commonly defined as an exposure to a situation in which a person is confronted with an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to self or others’ physical well-being (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Specific types of client trauma frequently encountered by which therapists and other mental health workers frequently encounter in a clinical setting include sexual abuse, physical , or sexual assault, natural disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis, domestic violence, and school or/and work related violence (James & Gilliland, 2001). Traumatic

Post-traumatic amnesia is confusion or memory loss that occurs immediately following a traumatic brain injury. The person that was injured is usually disoriented and is unable to remember the events that occur after the injury like their name, where they are, and the time. They may experience retrograde amnesia (loss of memories that were formed before the injury) and retrograde amnesia (problems with creating new memories). They may regain their memory. When they experience anterograde amnesia they memories are never regained because they were not encoded completely. Memories from just before the trauma are often gone forever, due to repression, also because the memories may be incompletely encoded, if the injury interrupts the encoding

Being that a host of different mental disorders or negative effects can come from one’s traumatic experiences, it does not matter what stage of life the experiences are had, being a part of a serious and traumatic episode can allow these negative effects to stay with someone for their entire lives. For all these reasons and many more the study of trauma has become one of most importance and new theories are always being studied.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a psychotherapeutic approach that involves conjoint therapy sessions of with the child and the parent. This approach is employed among children and/or adolescents that are experiencing emotional and behavioral difficulties that are significant and related to life events that are traumatic (Cohen, Mannarino, & Deblinger, 2012). TF-CBT is a components-based model of treatment that includes intervention that are trauma-sensitive and cognitive behavioral, family and humanistic therapy

This discussion is a review of the Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Trauma in Schools program also known as CBITS. This discussion will include an overview of the program and descriptions of components that are included within the program. The program has been introduced into two other programs that are specifically for children that have experienced trauma and how the program effected children who have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. The implementation and effectiveness of this program and its transportability will be discussed. Cost Effectiveness and the quality of care that is received by the clients will also be evaluated. The program will also be reviewed for factors that will influence a provider’s decision to utilize the program and possible institutional obstacles and possible future opportunities will also be discussed.

Emotional numbness and avoidance of places, people, and activities that are reminders of the trauma.

Presenting Problem: it is reported that CHKD recommended that Thomas receive Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in October 2013. Its reported that in each instance Thomas got into trouble with relatives and community members due to behavioral problems. In Sewptember 2013 he was sexually abused by his oldest brother. Its reported that he experiences severe trauma due to the assault . After breaking in his grandmothers home with a knife on May 31, 2016 and was placed into Norfolk Detention Center. he is becoming increasingly violent and does not respect authority. He has a hx of absconding and problematic behaviors.

The aim of this study is to assess the effects of post-traumatic stress on brain functioning, in particular executive functioning and information processing of children and adolescents. This study also aims to evaluate prazosin as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents. Specifically, the study focuses on the treatment of sleep disturbances such as insomnia, nightmares and altered sleep schedules. The hypotheses of this study is that the subjects with PTSD will perform weaker in the tasks given compared to healthy subjects, and that prazosin will improve their sleep cycles and overall conditions.

Post -traumatic stress can affect learning due to difficulties with their memory and concentration. According to J. Douglas Bremner, “Recent studies have shown that victims of childhood abuse and combat veterans actually experience physical changes to the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in learning and memory, as well as in the handling of stress. The hippocampus also works closely with the medial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain that regulates our emotional response to fear and stress. PTSD sufferers often have impairments in one or both of these brain regions. Studies of children have found that these impairments can lead to problems with learning and academic achievement” (Bremner, n.d.).

Due to Matt’s diagnosis of PTSD and depression symptoms, it was imperative to utilize an approach that if possible, could decrease all symptomology. Empirically, research shows that with the successful treatment of PTSD, comorbid symptoms of depression and anxiety are also greatly reduced (Blachard et al., 2003; National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (UK, 2005). Thus so it seemed utilizing an empirically supported treatment for PTSD will assist in decreasing Matt’s depression PTSD symptomatology.

Currently, people may encounter a traumatic occasion that triggers such an intense anxiety reaction by means of the thoughtful sensory system, that memory of the occasion gets to be distinctly curbed.

I agree that trauma splitting is the most difficult to deal with when reaction to traumatic events. As a person that has suffered from this particular type of disassociation as it related to PTSD, I cannot image the long term psychological and developmental effects it has on our youth, adolescent, and young adults. During adolescent years, the frontal cortical develops in which contributes to the refinement of reasoning, goal and priority setting, impulse control, and evaluating long and short term rewards (Crews, He, & Hodge, 2007, p. 189). A disruption (abuse rather verbally or physically) could potentially effect the development of these characteristics as we continue to develop throughout our life span. This form of disassociation/splitting

If we had an option to wipe out our memory, would we choose to forget about the events that involved actual or threatened death, serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of ourselves or others? For soldiers, it may be losing a close comrade in a war. For me or any other ordinary individuals, they may be natural or human-made disasters, violent personal attack, torture or even sexually abuse(Parekh). The truth is, we don’t want to be reminded of any of these terrible events that took away a small portion of our lives.

He presents an added element…trauma. Herman (1992) and Navalta et al. (2004) describe Complex PTSD and its devastating effects on all aspects of a human’s life because he/she is caged and forced to fully endure trauma. Research claims that people who have experienced trauma tend to not seek help and try to deal on their own, but unfortunately develop poor coping mechanisms that are said to eventually lead to future trauma, therefore perpetuating one’s PTSD (Cozolino, 2010). It has been recognized that high levels of stress impair learning of new information (Yerkes & Dodson, 1908). Cozolino (2010) stresses that this is due to the biochemical and hormonal changes. Trauma can act as the culprit to impair memory and is capable of dissociating the usually integrated tracks of sensation, emotion, behavior, and conscious awareness (Cozolino,