Psychological Trauma Case Study

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

Situations such as these allow for emotional attachments to creep into workers’ minds and begin to take their focus off of the task at hand. In addition to the minor emotional impacts involved with these types of trauma comes a much larger problem. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects approximately 5.2 million people over the course of a year. A mental health condition, this disorder is brought on by witnessing a traumatic event. Flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event are the major symptoms of the condition. PTSD is just one of the various emotional struggles that affects first responders. With this, and other effects, being a major safety issue for the responders as well

Your introduction is very engaging and emphasizes the important role of communication after experiencing trauma. I believe your topic is very relatable because there is a sense of denial, seclusion, and dissociation that correlates with trauma and loss that many of us have experienced. Open communication within a family unit provides opportunities to express thoughts and feelings and develop appropriate coping strategies (Zambianchi & Bitti, 2014). In your intro you stated, "The impact childhood trauma has on our society and on children." As a suggestion, maybe you could expand on this statement or state specific impacts childhood trauma has on our society or on children. I love your examples of evidenced based interventions and how

Catarina is a 33yo, G5 P4004, who is currently 34 weeks 4 days as dated by a certain and regular LMP. She had late PNC as she established only recently. She has 4 prior full-term deliveries; all in Guatemala at home without complications. I communicated with her through CryaCom.

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.

The target audience is the same which is rural Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). The first goal of the grant lines up perfectly with our mission to use telehealth technology to enhance the quality of mental health service for veterans residing in rural areas. The PLC-5 criterion is an assessment for the intervention and detection of post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). The goal of the pilot program is to reduce the metal health issues among these group of veterans. Additionally, the technology component hopes to use preexisting networks and expand to provide an access to mental health and other services to rural veterans via partnerships and coalitions with other healthcare entities

What constitutes someone’s identity as a person? Some may argue that role models or one’s environment can influence a person’s values. Others may differ and remark how one’s experiences in life can determine how one may perceive the world. However, the memories from these experiences may not always positively affect an individual. Instead, a memory or event may be of a severe traumatic event that can unknowingly haunt an individual for the rest of his or her life. These memories will then possess a strong control over one’s life that can alter the way that a person may live their life. For a trauma victim, their life may be plagued by moments of time that may appear to trigger his or her trauma, resulting in an individual losing touch with reality. This experience portrays an altered reality that can make the trauma victim tremble with fear concerning that moment in time where they were at their most vulnerable. The mental state of trauma victims is explored by Martha Stout in her essay, “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday.” Stout, a psychologist, depicts how a number of her clients, trauma victims, from varying degrees of dissociation. Dissociation can affect a trauma victim in many forms, and is often used a method to protect the mental state of a victim from further pain. By allowing the subconscious to take over, the victim does not have to be mentally present for situations that may trigger one’s memory of trauma. This will protect the victim but this level

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

It seems to be a very controversial topic with no accurate answer. After reading some materials online I believe that recovered memories of psychological trauma are valid and I concluded this by reading an article “How Traumatic Memories Hide in the Brain, And How to Retrieve Them” written by Marla Paul. The problem with a validity of the repressed memories arose many times and made some people think that the memories were false because they were not easy to access this is why they considered not being true. The Northwestern Medicine scientists explain that “in response to traumatic stress, some individuals, instead of activating the glutamate system to store memories, activate the extra-synaptic GABA system and form inaccessible traumatic

The client is a blonde 15 year old student of average height and build. He lives with his maternal grandparents who have been his legal guardians since he was in elementary school. He has a 13 year old brother who attends the same school and a ten year old sister in another school. His parents are both still living, but have minimal contact with the client and his siblings. They moved to different states and both have new spouses and children. This did create some abandonment issues with all of the siblings, as well as some Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the client. The client stated that this caused self-image issues since he was so young when his parents left him with his grandparents.

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

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.

Secondary Traumatic stress, also known as STS is focused on helping family, parents, spouses, children, and other close relatives and friends. Basically anybody that can serve as a caregiver to veterans injured. STS occurs when the caretaker is traumatized indirectly by a traumatized person. The person might experience hyperarousal, emotional distress, avoidance, and sleep disturbance. They may also experience disturbance in normal functioning. A social worker can help in many ways to those experiencing STS. Once they know what services the client needs, they can try and find the right referrals for them. A veterans center would be a great resource to help with any difficult they might be experiencing. A support group for family members of

Barely 30 years old, Mark, a rising Orange County management professional, has become an expert in recovering from hip surgery as he completes his third, and hopefully final, rehabilitation program following his latest arthroscopic procedure for a hip impingement.

A relationship was sought between the existence of previous trauma and the experience of vicarious trauma using a chi-square test. Findings as indicated in Table 5 above, substantiate that the previous experience of trauma has no significant relationship with the current experience of compassion fatigue (x2 = .172, df = 2, p > .05). This means that in this sample, the experience of trauma was most likely not related to the experience of previous trauma.