...long as we keep killing each other’s youth. The youth are fighting in the wars of today many not even being able to see tomorrow. The implications that war brings a sense of supreme power and security to the Americas does not make up for the trauma, PTSD disorders, and emotional detachment issues our soldiers face at the end of the day. Trauma can be experienced one of two ways, physical being wounded or hurt on the outside or mental trauma which is experienced inside the individuals own mind. Both can affect a person’s life drastically, but it’s the mental patients that give the appearance that they have no problems, but upon further examination end up being the lives that where affected the most. In the film “In the Valley of Elah” by Paul Haggis a young woman goes to the police after her war veteran husband drowns their dog in the bathtub, believing she’ll be next only to be turned away. It is very clear that the woman’s husband is suffering from mental trauma. That is why he drowned the dog. Trauma can make you do things you never thought humane. Trauma can change your whole process of thinking. Trauma can change the life of an individual. Car accidents, terrorism, and war are just some of the few causes of PTSD. Kind of like trauma a person diagnosed with PTSD may not always look ill. In fact a person with PTSD can look like a normal everyday citizen. But their brains have been turned to mush that they cant...
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...Orientation Questions Who are you? Please tell us a few interesting things about yourself. Please answer any two of the following “fun” questions: If there was one type of food that you couldn’t live without, what would it be? What is one goal you’d like to accomplish during your lifetime? When you were little, who was your favorite super hero and why? Who is your hero? (a parent, a celebrity, an influential person in one’s life) What’s your favorite season of the year, and why? If they made a movie of your life, what would it be about and which actor would you want to play you? If you could visit any place in the world, where would you choose to go and why? What are your favorite hobbies? Tell us about a unique or quirky habit of yours? If you had to describe yourself using three words, they would be... How will you be accessing the class website (e.g. home computer, ARC Learning Resource Center)? What is your back-up plan, should this option fail? Using the links from Step 1 of the Online Orientation, do you think that you will be a successful online student? Which 2 characteristics will be your strongest assets? Which characteristics will be your vulnerability and how will you overcome them? After reading about the Course Design in Step 3, what aspect of my class design do you think will be the most difficult part of this curriculum and how will you overcome...
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...Warning: This blog entry is one big spoiler alert, so if you haven't seen "Shutter Island" but want to then please refrain from reading this until you've paid your ten dollars and fifty cents. "Shutter Island" is one of those films that rips the rug out from under your expectations with the frequency and intensity of a magican's act. Initially, we think we are watching a well-intentioned U.S. Marshall named Teddy enter an insane asylum/prison hoping to uncover the whereabouts of a recently-disappeared patient/inmate. Later, our strangeness barometer begins to beep and we recalibrate our assumptions. Now we think we are witnessing a brave and bereaved soul searching for damning evidence that will expose Shutter Island as an expensive, cutting-edge torture chamber. Only during the final act (unless you've connected the foreshadowing dots), when our barometer falls off the charts, do we realize that the narrative is really about tragic psychosis and elaborate role play. Overall, I found the film to be a very intense, somewhat entertaining discussion of lines - the kind of elusive, easily blurred lines that exist between perception and reality, normalcy and insanity, even exceptional and subpar filmmaking. There is another extremely relevant though largely ignored line of which I'd like to discuss, the line between realistic and melodramatic portraits of clinical psychology. Although issues like delusions and 20th century inpatient treatment are aggressively examined within...
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... Therapy is not just for “insane” individuals because Stout’s patients are intellectual individuals who carry through conventional lifestyles. Society labels individuals who acquire psychiatric help as irregular simply because the individuals seek the therapy. Seeking therapeutic help is the first step towards fixing personal problems that cannot be fought alone. Everyone has issues that are difficult to face on their own; in Stout’s patients’ cases, the issues are severe episodes of dissociation that hinder their everyday routines. One patient in particular, named Julia, is a successful producer of documentary films. As a child, Julia underwent child abuse and was skillfully able to remove herself from the horrific situations. The trauma Julia experienced as a child causes her to dissociate now as an adult yet, she carries her life as anyone else would. “I met her when I she was thirty-two, and an intellectual force to be reckoned with. A conversation with her reminds me of the New York Review of Books, except that she is...
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...research on the effects of patient/nurse incidents and traumas, I decided that assisting her while she recovers from her injuries would be an excellent experience for this essay. My paper will focus on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as nurses who work with mental patients. The long-term effects on nurses caused by mental patients are a very influential part of the nurses’ lives. After assisting my aunt, a recent victim and candidate for PTSD, I hope to gain a better understanding and respect for these nurses, as well as witnessing first-hand what being a victim truly means. Depression and Anxiety contained a research article about PTSD in nurses. Their research did not include nurses who have experienced a traumatic event, as my aunt has, but, nevertheless, is related to my topic. The research suggests that nurses in general are more likely to develop degrees of PTSD just from the trials and tribulations of their jobs than people in other, lower-stress jobs. Also, several nurses experience trauma and death as an everyday aspect of their job, which can result in PTSD as easily as being a victim can. Nursing, especially in high risk positions such as my aunt’s, can result in symptoms of PTSD. My aunt is at an even higher risk to developing this disorder due to the recent trauma she experienced at the hand of a patient. The Journal of Advanced Nursing also contained articles with insights into PTSD, trauma victims, and working with mental patients. One article...
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...Today I had the pleasure of meeting with Marla in my office at the clinic. She is a 42 year old Hispanic woman that had a well groomed and neat appearance. She also looked very tired and noticeably anxious. I smiled and offered her something to drink while she made herself comfortable. When I returned with her tea, she and I had a conversation that I was able to include the following questions so I could reveal more information about her troubled lifestyle. How are you doing today? As Marla took a sip of her tea she said she is very tired from not sleeping well at night. She also stated that she does not like the jumpy feeling she is constantly experiencing when she is at work. She also stated that because of these feelings and lack of sleep she is unable to concentrate which is effecting her work performance as an accountant. Which is starting to annoy her boss. What has been going on lately to bring you to the office? Marla told me her mom has been ill recently and she and her siblings all helped to take care of her. She also told me that her mom lives in the same neighborhood where Marla and her siblings were raised. She also added that she feels anxious all the time especially when at work. What type of neighborhood did you grow up in? I asked that question because when Marla was talking about her mom she had the look of concern on her face as she answered. Marla went on to tell me that her mom’s neighborhood is not safe for her mom. She said that there...
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...affords other people that are dealing with the person who has PTSD. Example of these people who are there medical personnel giving care of the patients, family members, or co-workers. Some of the event that triggers the PTSD could become violent assault, a major accident such as sexual abuse, natural disaster, and rape, car crash ("Types Of Traumatic Events", 2009).History of the Illness The post traumatic stress disorder is a legitimate and can functional diagnose but is not the only answer to a trauma event. This type of disorder is frequency in the ordinary population is between 1-8%. This type of disorder is a type of linked with excessive rates of harm in the social and job-related operation. This type of disorder can be distinguished from a further psychiatric condition as a chemical substance in a living organisms, the study of conciseness, and nervous system. The diagnosis is sufferers of the recruiting and they have over and over of the trauma could be determined by more of the diagnostic state. There are saying that the post-traumatic stress disorder has brought disagreement and uncertainty from the time when it becomes listed in the diagnostic. The criteria us studied and revised over the years...
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...Holden Caulfield and Mental Illness Holden Caulfield is a 16-year-old rebellious teenager on the outside. He doesn’t seem to care about anything or anyone, and he certainly doesn’t seem to care about his future. If you dig a little deeper however, it isn’t that he doesn’t care, it is that he is suffering from several mental illnesses. At the end of the book you learn that Holden has told you this story from a Mental Hospital. He has displayed many symptoms of PTSD, Depression and Dissociative identity disorder throughout the book. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is hyper anxiety disorder brought about after a shocking or traumatic event. Holden has had at least two events in his life that would bring about this disorder: When he was 13 and his brother Allie died of Leukemia, and when he witnessed the suicide of his classmate James Castle. A symptom of PTSD is reliving the past. The book itself is a flashback and there are many instances where Holden flashes back to a memory. One instance is when he flashes back to after Allie died “ I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddamn windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything by that time, and I couldn't do it. It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it, and you didn't know Allie.” (Salinger 1945) Another relevant...
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...SCaring for Kids After Trauma, Disaster and Death: A GUIDE FOR PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS SECOND EDITION The New York University Child Study Center is dedicated to the understanding, prevention and treatment of child and adolescent mental health problems. The Center offers expert psychiatric services for and intervention. The Center’s mission is to bridge training supported by the resources of the worldclass New York University School of Medicine. children and families with emphasis on early diagnosis the gap between science and practice, integrating the finest research with patient care and state-of-the-art For more information, visit www.AboutOurKids.org. Changing the Face of Child Mental Health Caring for Kids After Trauma, Disaster and Death: A GUIDE FOR PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS SECOND EDITION DEVELOPED BY: The faculty and staff of the New York University Child Study Center Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D., Director & Founder Marylene Cloitre, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Trauma and Stress REVISED SEPTEMBER 2006 under the direction of Joel McClough, Ph.D., Director of the Families Forward Program, Institute for Trauma and Stress by Anita Gurian, Ph.D. Dimitra Kamboukos, Ph.D. Eva Levine, Ph.D. Michelle Pearlman, Ph.D. Ronny Wasser, B.A. Permission is granted for reproduction of this document by parents and professionals © 2006 1 C A R I N G F O R K I D S A F T E R T R A U M A , D I S A S T E R A N D D E A T H ...
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...1. Transience This is the tendency to forget facts or events over time. You are most likely to forget information soon after you learn it. However, memory has a use-it-or-lose-it quality: memories that are called up and used frequently are least likely to be forgotten. Although transience might seem like a sign of memory weakness, brain scientists regard it as beneficial because it clears the brain of unused memories, making way for newer, more useful ones. 2. Absentmindedness This type of forgetting occurs when you don’t pay close enough attention. You forget where you just put your pen because you didn’t focus on where you put it in the first place. You were thinking of something else (or, perhaps, nothing in particular), so your brain didn’t encode the information securely. Absentmindedness also involves forgetting to do something at a prescribed time, like taking your medicine or keeping an appointment. 3. Blocking Someone asks you a question and the answer is right on the tip of your tongue — you know that you know it, but you just can’t think of it. This is perhaps the most familiar example of blocking, the temporary inability to retrieve a memory. In many cases, the barrier is a memory similar to the one you’re looking for, and you retrieve the wrong one. This competing memory is so intrusive that you can’t think of the memory you want. Scientists think that memory blocks become more common with age and that they account for the trouble older people have remembering...
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...Sexual Abuse in Children Heather Sellers Composition and Communications II Abstract Sexual abuse in children has been discussed many times. However, not a lot of people really pay attention to what is being said. In this paper I plan to discuss how many cases of abuse is actually reported. I also plan to discuss how many perpetrators are known by the victim, why a person would become a sex offender and how a victim’s life is changed. I will discuss how the cycle of abuse works, and the different disorders that are caused. By the end of this paper I plan to have informed you all of the dangers of sexual abuse. I also plan to have you all more aware of the people you and your family and friends spend their time with. Sexual abuse has always been a problem in the world, but many people believe the worst is sexual abuse in children. Sexual abuse in children has become a major issue over the years and has proven to cause many disorders, future problems in relationships, and trust issues. There are also many different reasons someone will become an abuser and there are many effects that can come from being sexually assaulted. According to www.victimsofcrime.org studies by David Finkelhor, Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center,...
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...Evidence-based answers from the Family Physicians Inquiries Network What is the most effective way to relieve symptoms of acute stress disorder? EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER James M. Scott III, MD; Neil Nipper, MD Eglin Air Force Base Family Medicine Residency, Eglin AFB, Fla Rita Smith, MS, MEd Lackland Air Force Base Medical Library, Lackland AFB, Tex A cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that emphasizes exposure-based treatment is the most effective intervention for adults with acute stress disorder (ASD) (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, meta-analysis of limited-quality randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). Exposure-based therapy reduces symptoms in adults with ASD more than CBT that focuses on cognitive restructuring; both therapies are better than no treatment at all (SOR: B, a limited-quality RCT). Avoid drug treatment within 4 weeks of appearance of symptoms, unless distress is too severe to be managed with psychological treatment alone (SOR: C, consensus guideline). Evidence summary ASD refers to a constellation of psychological symptoms that can occur within 4 weeks after a traumatic event.1 (For more on ASD, see http://www.psychologynet.org/dsm/stress. html.) Patients with symptoms that persist beyond 4 weeks or develop after 4 weeks are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Approximately 12.5% of people who experience a traumatic event develop ASD, and 10% develop PTSD, although not all patients who develop PTSD have preceding ASD.2...
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...never even been to combat. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. Traumatic events that may trigger PTSD include violent personal assaults, natural or human-caused disasters, accidents, or military combat (National Institute of Mental Health, 2011). Although not all individuals who have been traumatized develop PTSD, there can be significant physical consequences of being traumatized. For example, research indicates that people who have been exposed to an extreme stressor sometimes have a smaller hippocampus, the region of brain that plays a role in memory, than people who have not been exposed to trauma (MedicineNet, 2011). Often family member those diagnosed with PTSD find themselves often feeling hurt, alienated, or discouraged because the patient has yet to overcome...
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...Magnolia Therapeutic Solution Case Study Patience A. Steward BSHS 373 February 4, 2013 Megan Burke Magnolia Therapeutic Solution Case Study The Magnolia Therapeutic Solutions Case Study defines to other organizations or businesses, especially that falling under the government expense or support how important it is to scrutinize on routine basis the cash flow of finances and effective decision making carefully. The magnolia Therapeutic Case constructed by Mary Stewart, was action put in place to assist those individual suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorders. Mary saw the need for initial to continuous help as a steady increase with this disorder from many of her private sessions. Many health professions prior to the Magnolia Therapeutic Solutions was no over concern in the area of Post Traumatic Stress Disorders. In such a manner, Mary Stewart created the organization under non-profit ideals and generously accepted a large government donation. Sadly is the downfall of an assumption that cost Magnolia Therapeutic Solutions to discontinue services that helped so many clients involved. The intent of this essay will explore the problems and concerns of the organization, the decisions made affecting organizational infrastructure, and risks taken within management. Problems and Concerns According to the Mayo Clinic (1998-2012), “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event. Symptoms may include flashbacks...
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...01 June 2011 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT: Standard Operating Procedure for 2/7 IN Battalion Aid Station 1. References a. FM 4-02.4 Medical Platoon Leader’s Handbook b. 68W Advanced Field Craft: Combat Medic Skills c. AR 40-3 Medical, Dental, and Veterinary Care d. AR 40-61 Medical Logistics Policy 2. Purpose a. To establish and outline a Standard Operating Procedure for 2/7 IN Battalion Aid Station based off of the above references. 3. Scope a. The requirements herein are applicable to all personnel within the Battalion who work in or utilize the services of the Battalion Aid Station. 4. Policy a. Medical care is characterized by the ever present need for continuing education. All medics must be familiar with a wide range of medical references and participate in medical training whenever possible. To aid the BAS in patient screening, the triage process will be utilized to determine who will return to duty and who needs further care. b. The primary function of the BAS in garrison is to provide the Soldier with appropriate level one medical care at the Battalion echelon. The primary source of follow on care will be provided by the Troop Medical Clinic, while in garrison. The BAS will act in conjunction with the TMC by screening patients, and treating minor injuries only sending Soldiers to further care when it is beyond the medic’s capabilities. Under no circumstances should a medic extend themselves beyond their limitations...
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