Trust During Hell 's 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

For my final reflection paper, I would like to discuss vicarious trauma and its implications. This topic has stuck with me ever since we learned about it earlier in the semester. It is something that I fear will impact me during my work as a counselor. While I do not intend to deal exclusively with trauma patients, I cannot control who walks through my doors so it is in my best interest to understand ways to protect against vicarious trauma. My initial reaction to this topic was, “oh that does not bother me” or “I won’t have a problem with that,’ but as trauma seeped into my personal life it became apparent hat it does in fact bother me. Dealing with my cousins’ trauma this semester and trying my best to be helpful and supportive has proven to be more difficult then original thought.

Popular press and peer-reviewed articles differ in writing style, formatting, and content, given their different readerships. That is, popular press articles generally cater to the general public while peer-reviewed articles cater to academic scholars. This essay compares popular press and peer-reviewed articles to assess their differences, similarities, and potential uses. In pursuit of this assessment, this essay explores how the topic of trauma and memory is addressed in "Why Rape and Trauma Survivors Have Fragmented and Incomplete Memories," a popular press article from Time magazine and ""I Remember", "I Thought", I Know I Didn't Say": Silence and Memory in Trauma Narratives," a peer-reviewed journal from the academic journal Memory.

Hypothesis 1: Metro Police experience vicarious trauma through exposure to traumatic situations in their line of work.

Traumatizing events are happening all over the world, and are being caused by pitiless gang

In the novel, The Road by Cormac McCarthy (published 2006), a young boy and his father set out on a journey in a dangerous, deadly, post apocalyptic society where everyone is out for themselves. With cannibalism all around, the son and his father fight to stay alive. Not many people survived the unknown event that occured, making it difficult for difficult to trust anybody and to find the items they need. Most of the people at still survive are what they call the “bad people” causing the boy and his father conquer evil and survive on their own. Throughout the novel, the father cares for his son and protects him at all costs. In the most difficult of situations, good people will focus on others more than themselves because they poses love and kindness.

Exposure to traumatic experiences has always been a part of human life. From back hundreds of years ago till now, for example, attacks by saber tooth tigers or twenty-first century terrorists have likely led to similar psychological responses in survivors of such violence. Literary accounts offer the first descriptions of what we now call posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). For example, authors including Homer (The Iliad), William Shakespeare (Henry IV), and Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities) wrote about traumatic experiences and the symptoms that followed such events. The PTSD diagnosis has filled an important gap in psychiatry in that its cause was the result of an event the individual suffered, rather than a personal weakness. PTSD became a diagnosis with influence from several social movements, such as Veteran, feminist, and Holocaust survivor advocacy groups. Research about Veterans returning from combat was a critical piece to the creation of the diagnosis. War takes a physical and emotional toll on service members, families, and their communities. So, the history of what

In Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Izzy, who is a teen is struck with a heart-breaking disability after an accident. Throughout the novel she fights through her injury, remaining strong and determined. Although, times got rough and sad, she stayed positive in several aspects. After losing her left leg, she was left with various difficult adjustments to make. However, Izzy was traumatized by the accident, leaving her with a life changing disability. Her family and friends’ reactions to her amputation of her leg were sometimes demeaning; furthermore, they rejected her disability in many aspects. Izzy’s father and brothers rejected her after the accident, they wouldn’t visit her or acknowledge during this hard time. Furthermore, when her father arrived to

Once he was checking his phone and trying to turn it on.As they were looking around they saw a security house.

Vicarious Trauma and Countertransference Vicarious Trauma (VT) and Countertransference (CT) can occur throughout an individual’s career, working in the mental health field. VT occurs when mental health professionals are exposed to stress and trauma while treating clients (James & Gilliland, 2017). VT may be connected to a counselor’s engagement of empathy with clients (Trippany, Kress, & Wilcoxon, 2004). CT occurs when counselors take traits and behaviors of their past and place them on their clients (James & Gilliland, 2017). Mental health professionals are at higher risk for experiencing VT and CT (Newell & MacNeil, 2010).

Did you know that in many cases, the cause of sex addiction can be linked back to past emotional traumas? The two issues may seem like they are worlds apart but in actual fact, emotional trauma, particularly in the early stages of life, can have a significant impact on the persons’ ability to cope and result in unhealthy coping mechanisms, such as sexual addictions.

This uniqueness is dependent on the individuals’ personality, defence mechanisms used and inner resources. Based on the theoretical framework used by the researcher in this research, the effects of vicarious trauma are predictable (McCann & Pearlman, 2009). In response to a traumatic life event, the individual must integrate the event and its context and consequences into their existing beliefs about self and others. The intensity of the somatic, affective, and interpersonal components of the experience determine the availability of the event for cognitive processing.

A traumatic experience influences the entire person – how they think, how they learn, how they remember things, the way they feel about themselves, the way they feel about other people, and the way they perceive the world, are all profoundly altered by the traumatic experience (Bloom, 1999). Constructivist Self Development Theory (Pearlman & Saakvitne, 2000) can explain both the negative changes that occur in the aftermath of a traumatic event, as well as the positive changes which occur as a result of adaptation and meaning making. It is difficult to measure the complexities of an individual's response to a traumatic event. How an individual responds to trauma is sadly often embedded in socio-cultural contexts, often with political and moral

In Judith Herman’s book, Trauma and Recovery, she discusses her research and work with trauma survivors. In her book, she writes that, “traumatic events are extraordinary, not because they occur rarely, but rather because they overwhelm the ordinary human adaptations to life” (Herman 24). She explores the idea that trauma is as individual as it is common, with reactions and the journey to the post-traumatic self similar despite differences in events. In the case of Barbara Gordon, while the event may vary, her physical and mental trauma can be compared to America’s fear of its forfeiture of power to terror and the loss of the towers after September 11, 2001. Trauma is about more than just the physical ramifications; when the physical aspect is fixed, Barbara’s legs and the building of the 1 World Trade Center, the mental and emotional trauma still remain.

How would you react to being trapped, fighting for survival, in a post apocalyptic society? Coupland takes an interesting look at this and presents many other underlying ideas that build up the basics of human nature, such as, competition, control and survival of the fittest. The relatable main character showcases the darker, bitter, side that is contained in the fabric in all of us, but in a satirical comedic tone. He does so in a way where the even the structure of the writing is how you might expect an average persons’ thought process of events.