Posttraumatic

Ever thought about our soldiers and veterans and why they are diminishing so quickly? I would soon find out for myself about a disorder that is causing this diminish and how much it is being overlooked. The summer of 2014 would be a summer I would never forget. A family friend, a caring, energetic and happy boy would soon choose to take his own life. Some one you always saw and would make sure you were okay. Never in a million years would I have ever thought twice that a disorder would ever take

have seen and felt first hand the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder. It is not possible to respond to emergency after emergency and not be subject to some of PTSD’s effects. When I saw this topic in the list I felt compelled to use this opportunity to learn more. My hope is by increasing my knowledge, of a disorder so prevalent in my career field; I can recognize the symptoms in others and myself before there effect becomes devastating. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD as it is more commonly

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects many individuals in the United States. This paper focuses on individuals who survived hurricane Ike and Katrina and as a result, suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder. PTSD can affect an individual for a couple of weeks to a few years after the exposure. People who suffer from PTSD can also suffer from depression and substance use (O'donnell & Forbes, 2016). The period after a natural disaster can also feed the negative feelings that come with PTSD

A descriptive correlational study by Kamibeppu et al. (2015) aimed to identify factors associated with post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors (Kamibeppu et al., 2015). A cross-sectional quantitative design guided the study, where attending physicians recruited 185 subjects among the 12 chosen hospitals in Japan (Kamibeppu et al., 2015). The researchers developed the questionnaire from those previously used by the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

Introduction According to the dictionary diagnosis in PsychCentral, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is defined as a “debilitating mental disorder that follows experiencing or witnessing an extremely traumatic, tragic, or terrifying event” (PTSD Info & Treatment, 2013). While this definition describes the general definition of PTSD, the DSM-IV states that the criteria for being diagnosed with PTSD varies between a person who “experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved

technology and military medicine, improved amounts of armed veterans are surviving the injuries they endure at war. These brave men and woman are faced to enter the civilian life after enduring the things that they cannot remove form their memories. Posttraumatic stress disorder is a common psychological and physiological consequence of deployment for combat in military veterans. For an individual to be diagnosed of PTSD, the person had to have been exposed to an intense traumatic situation, which resulted

many intervention programs and practices related to child welfare. One of these intervention models is Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention or CFTSI. This intervention program addresses the challenge of children who have suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder caused by a variety of things such as physical and sexual abuse (The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare). This intervention practice came to be because of the multitude of children who are suffering from this

at least a month. There are three variations of post-traumatic stress disorder: acute, chronic and delayed onset. In acute PTSD, symptoms last less than 3 months. If symptoms last either 3 months or greater it is classified at chronic PTSD (“Posttraumatic Stress,” 2001). Delayed onset PTSD, symptoms first appear at least 6 months after the

Literature Review Existing controlled examinations of intervention efficacy specific to only sexual assault and rape are presently minimal in comparison to intervention examinations of combination or other types of trauma (Regehr, Alaggia, Dennis, Pitts, & Saini, 2013). Psychotherapeutic interventions that fail to differentiate sexual assault and rape victims from other types of trauma victims may decrease the treatment effectiveness or inadvertently harm participants in this subgroup. Trauma associated

the movie Forrest Gump, such as Forrest’s mental disorder or Jenny’s depression due to her mother passing away at a young age and her father abusing her, but the character I have selected for this particular assignment is Lieutenant Dan and his Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. When the viewer of this movie first sees Lieutenant Dan he is a seemingly happy man who is serving in Vietnam War, the viewer learns that Lieutenant Dan’s family had someone who had fought and die in every single war fought by