The Role Of Play Therapy On Trauma Victims

young victims of child sexual abuse can be demanding for the victim, the victim’s family, and the counselor. The trauma associated with the abuse and the time it may take the child to heal can become very overwhelming. There are barriers, such as a lack of family support and lack of disclosure, which may block victims of child sexual abuse from successful treatment. Overcoming these barriers and incorporating multiple methods of treatment can be beneficial for the victim. Specifically, trauma-focused

exposed to a catastrophic event. These factors can include their past exposure to trauma, their mental health history, their families’ history of psychological problem, age, gender, biological makeup, social network, as well accessibility to mental health treatment facilities. An individual with a strong social support before and after the traumatic event is likely to have a positive adjustment after the trauma than an individual who has a poor connection and attachment with their social circle

The employment of torture to an individual not only leaves a physical and psychological mark, but creates an altered reality that the victim must now adjust to. The authors of Victims of Fear: The Social Psychology of Repression, argue that “Like all experiences of trauma, the torture experience needs to be worked through in the context in which it occurred by reconstructing and reliving it in all its horror and thereby coming to terms with its personal and social meaning” (Salimovich,80). Alternatively

the United States than what the media publishes in the news. These victims must relive the event, or events that have taken place over a period of their life. When looking at the aftermath of the act itself, it is many times much more harmful to the victim (Ullman, 2001). When people think of victims of sexual assault, they many times think about the stereotypical “a man raping a woman.” There are many cases where a

out of every four girls and one out of every five boys are sexually abused by the time they are 18 years old. Sexual abuse to children happens across every socioeconomic status, ethnic, cultural, religion and education. Getting treatment for a victim of child sexual abuse is a difficult process because of the lack of trust by the child. When child sexual abuse occurs the victim’s family has a difficult time talking about the abuse, which leads to the family pretending the abuse never happened

According to the DSM-5, Post-Traumatic Stress is a trauma and stressor-related disorder characterised by psychological and physiological symptoms emerging from direct or indirect exposure to a traumatic stressor. Examples include combat, rape or abuse. Moreover, the event itself elicits overwhelming emotional responses including "fear, helplessness, or horror" that threatens the psychological integrity of the individual. Notwithstanding the actual trigger, the individual 's response is of such

explain how human trafficking is involved in human services and how we can help people get help after they have been a victim of human trafficking. Victims can be men or women, or children, foreign nationals or U.S. citizens, the attacker normally draws in the victim with a stable job, education, or relationships. In most cases, social services would be involved in helping the victim either cope or get medical attention.

Drama therapy is defined as an intentional and systematic application of drama/ theatre processes, products, and associations towards achieving therapeutic goals of symptom relief, emotional and physical integration and individual/personal growth. Therefore, the goals of drama therapy are established from psychotherapy and the tools to achieve these goals are derived from theatre Children use drama as therapy spontaneously, with no outside direction or pre-imposed structure. Dramatic play is the

children’s counselor at the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center, serving victims of abuse, granted a short interview. She said, “Quite often a nine-year-old client having witnessed domestic violence within the home can in turn act like a thirty-two-year-old” (M. Quintin, personal communication, July 2, 2015). A general definition of parentification is provided by Chase (1999): “…parentification in the family entails a functional and/or emotional role reversal in which the child sacrifices his or her own needs

Anybody can experience trauma, whether it’s a man, a woman, or even a child. In fact, over half of the population is expected to experience trauma at least once in their lifetimes. However, everyone will respond to trauma in their own, unique, way, making it difficult to properly equip people with the tools needed to heal from trauma in the event they experience it. Whereas the responses a person and his or her body will have in the event of heart attack have been narrowed down to a small list,