...I learned that every home may have different gender roles. So upon entering a home I again, don’t make any assumptions regarding gender or the role. Today we are moving farther and farther away from the “norm” and more single mothers are playing multiple roles in their families. For example, my 11-year-old in home client’s mom is a single parent so she plays multiple roles, this causes conflicts at times in their family. And again, this is where I come in to try and support my client in situations like...
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...Trauma is derived from the Greek word for a wound, it is said to be a ‘deeply distressing or disturbing experience’ (Oxford Dictionary) A traumatic incident is where a person experiences, witnesses, hears about a (real or perceived) threat to the physical and/or psychological integrity of self, or others whereby the person's response involves great fear, horror and/or helplessness.(APA 2002) Examples of a traumatic incident could be a threat, an accident, a form of abuse, of the death of a loved one to name only a few. Dependency can be described as the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else. The world health organisation in the 1960’s recommended that the term addiction be replace with dependence- as dependence can have varying degrees of severity as opposed to the ‘all or nothing’ concept behind addiction. Dependence can be seen as a compulsive need for and use of a habit forming substances, characterized by tolerance and well defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal. Drug dependency is a common problem amongst all ethnic groups and social classes worldwide. Drugs can be taken for a number of reasons and not everyone who consumes them will become dependent. It has been suggest that drugs are taken for one of two reasons Pleasure or relieve symptoms of suffering. There are a number of contributing factors why people develop addictions. However trauma and addictions are very closely linked. Never the less this does not mean that ever addict...
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...After Trauma Raquel A. Figueroa Liberty University COUN 620-B02 Abstract In a generation of hopelessness, adolescents seek a purpose for their existence. They seek refugee from violence, abuse and maltreatment. The overwhelming pressure opens the door for instant gratification in drugs, alcohol, sexual activity, and fail to make appropriate adjustments in compromising circumstances. There is a correlation between traumatic experiences and adolescent cognitive development. A traumatic experience can alter an adolescent’s neural system and adversely affect the latter stages of brain development. Working with survivors of traumatic events requires an understanding of maladaptive behaviors, reactions and coping skills. Behavioral patterns emerge and become part of an adolescent’s personality. This paper will highlight the impact of traumatic experiences on adolescent cognitive development and their ability to foster an intrinsic knowledge of self. Maltreatment of adolescents has reached epidemic proportions within the United States. According to Bright (2008), “One in four children/adolescents experience at least one traumatic event before age 16” (p. 11). A study commissioned by Finkelhor, Ormrod, & Turner (2005) concluded the exposure to “physical abuse, sexual abuse, witnessing domestic violence, community violence, and natural disasters is a common occurrence among children in the U.S.” (p. 314). Reports of abused and neglected children overwhelm...
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...emotional abuse...........................................5 1.3 Maslow’s hierarchy of needs................................................................................6 SECTION TWO: GUIDANCE FOR TINA 2.1 Definition of counselling........................................................................................7 2.2 Differentiation between counselling and support for learning problems.............8 2.3 Phenomenon of child trauma and its effects..........................................................9 2.4 Differentiation between parental involvement and parental counselling...........10 2.5 Learning intervention program.......................................................................... 2.6 Guidelines taken into account............................................................................ INTRODUCTION SECTION ONE: BACKGROUND One of the most important roles of an educator In a school is to assist learners pastorally (Best, Lang, Lodge, Wattkins 1995: 63). Each year in South Africa approximately five million children experience some form of traumatic experience. More than two million of these are victims of physical and/or sexual abuse. Millions more are living in terrorizing atmosphere of domestic violence. Natural disasters, car accidents, life...
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...the prevalence and consider of mental health of children and adolescent. During the war against insurgent (Lord’s resistance army), a large number of children and adolescent are been a victims on extreme war violent and they are reach for traumatic experience same affected by adult. The psychological distress is the serious impact for them and almost of which directly involved in war found for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) dispute for longer duration after war when they recall back the bad memories on their horrific moments on the war. Some of them been abducted and recruited as soldiers and some of girls forced to involved in non-combat role and being subjected to sexual violent. They are continuously exposed to atrocities which influence them to suffering with psychology disorder. Summary The conflict in northern Uganda is most tragic conflict with the death victims reach a numbers of 1000 per weeks. A children and adolescent is affected group which up to 60000 of them recruited as soldiers and some being sexual violent with almost of them suffer with post-traumatic stress symptom. Significantly, most of them effected due exposed to war due traumatic events witness such as violent death of a family member, witnessing a hard injury, tortured and killed increase the mental disorder. More badly, the repetition the traumatic events and direct threat seriously affected for their psychology distress. The other effect of trauma is depression that strongly associate with post-traumatic...
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...Introduction The purpose of this report is to discuss the role social work practice can play in struggles over inequality and social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) people. From day one, white man set foot on Australian soil, ‘invasion day’, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) peoples have endured multi-levels of inequality and social injustices. This report will examine one policy, social workers had a direct hand in enforcing, and the repercussions of the ATSI community from this and how it affects the way social workers, work with the community today. Analysis The first social injustice faced by ATSI peoples was the British terming the land ‘terra nullius”, meaning ‘nobody’s land’ (Bennett et al 2013,...
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...I chose to summarize “AT Risk: Trauma and Academic Failure” written by Crosson-Tower (2017). The author describes how trauma affects children and how toxic stress can damage a child’s brain plus lead to developmental, physiological, and educational impairments. She mentions that dropout rates have been dropping since the 70’s except for special education children, low economic status children plus the minority. She also mentions those children are at more risk for undergoing trauma incidents in youth along with the introduction to violence plus being abused emotionally, sexually and physically. The quote I chose is “The research on disruptions in the functional and anatomical development of the brain as a result to trauma make the problem seem...
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...When it comes to Asian families, there is the stereotype of strict, overbearing parents who want their children to get high-paying careers. Usually, they would idealize their children to major in medicine, engineering, etc. At first, this can be seen as a good thing to gain discipline and success. However, these ambitious career aspirations from familial pressure inflict harm on their kids long-term and their experience as Asian Americans. The most discernible effects can be broken down into four ways: a decline in mental health, low self-esteem, generational trauma, and internalized stereotyping. When taken into consideration, the familial pressures of Asian parents affect their children emotionally and psychologically, taking a significant...
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...aftermath of exposure to trauma, children are at risk of developing disturbing and/or behavioral difficulties. The most detrimental types of trauma consist of sexual abuse, neglect, early physical and emotional/psychological abuse, along with direct contact to domestic violence, in the home. This paper will discuss the importance of why numerous services are available to and needed by the child and/or the family, for a suitable recovery. What is the problem being addressed? The problems that are being addressed at the moment are the level of trauma the client has endured and providing a certain type of service to him and/or her. One will identify the starting date, time, and location,...
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...What Effect Does Early Trauma Have On the Brain? Traumatic stress is a common problem in children and adults. Studying traumatic stress can help psychologists understand how to better treat trauma victims. When a typical person experiences a trauma, he needs to learn how to manage his stress. Injury, including one-time or more repetitive symptoms, affects everyone differently. How an event affects an individual depends on many factors, including characteristics of the individual, the type and characteristics of the events, developmental processes, the meaning of the trauma, and sociocultural factors. The reason that I picked The Article “Trauma Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services,” is because it discusses how self-inflicted injuries are common for trauma victims and how they react to abnormal circumstances. Traumatic experiences affect the brain therefore...
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...Abusive head trauma (AHT), also called shaken baby syndrome, is a traumatic brain injury to a child as a result of child abuse. Shaking as well as throwing a baby constitutes AHT. When a caretaker forcefully shakes a baby, his or her head muscles will rotate in a circular motion as their head whips back and forth. Impact is especially damaging because the fast acceleration and deceleration is very dangerous and causes blood vessels to rupture, tearing in the brain, and bleeding of the brain. AHT is the most common cause of traumatic brain injury in infants. Around 25% of victims die from AHT. Infants are at a high risk of AHT due to their large head size relative to the rest of their body and their inability to support their head with their...
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...The educator in a pastoral role Registration period: Semester 2, 2015 Student surname │ number: Mennell │ 50918818 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ASSIGNMENT RUBRIC 1 1 SECTION 1: BACKGROUND 2 2 SECTION 2: GUIDANCE FOR MARY 5 2.1 Concepts 5 2.2 Phenomenon of child trauma, and the effects of trauma on Mary’s life 6 2.2.1 Phenomenon of child trauma 6 2.2.2 Effects of trauma on Mary’s life 7 2.3 Parental involvement and parental counselling 8 2.4 An individual and learning intervention program for Mary 9 2.4.1 Important guidelines to take into account 9 2.4.2 Reference to the problems in terms of Mary’s subjects 9 2.4.3 Reporting the abuse, involving support services, and involving Mary’s mother 9 SOURCES CONSULTED 11 ASSIGNMENT RUBRIC According to Best, Lang, Lodge and Watkins (1995:63), one of the most important roles of an educator in a school is to assist learners pastorally. (See your study guide, p. 2) Read the following scenario: “I felt like nothing made sense… .” I am Mary. When I was 11 years old, my mum’s new boyfriend moved in with us. I thought it would be good for mum cos she had a drinking problem and was depressed, and I thought it would make her feel better having him there. At first he was ok and bought me presents, but then mostly he ignored me. Then after a few months he started doing things that made me nervous, like when I was ...
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...UNISA ASSIGNMENT 01 552421 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS TOPIC PAGE Background Narrative 1 Child Abuse 2 Maslow’s Hierarchy 2-3 Guidance for Ted 3 Child trauma 4 Parental involvement 5 Intervention programme 5 SECTION 1: BACKGROUND 1.1 Erickson developed a model with eight stages of psychological development. This model is based on the idea that a person’s development moves through stages in their life and each phase will be affected by the stages of development they go through. Each phase is seen as a challenge that should be attended to as they can be directly linked to one another and cause problems in the future Ted is in adolescence stage that Erickson named the Identity vs. Role confusion Stage. He says that peer groups and role models for leadership are significant influences. Ted who had witnessed his step father abuse her mom in front of them endured some emotional pain that could lead to negative results especially in adulthood Ted is a troubled child who needs guidance on how to treat a woman and how a child should be treated by parents, He is desperate and lonely because he is always isolating himself from other children because he feels useless and unlovable The other important factor is that the stepdad still has not changed much even after Ted’s mother has gotten a protection order, which clearly indicates that Ted , his brother and mother still experience...
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...Methods in Children of Addiction/Adult Children of Addiction (COA/ACOA) In this research we will be analyzing the group therapy methods of: psychodrama therapy, and Al-Anon and ACOA twelve step group recovery programs, while discussing the effectiveness of each on the psychological, educational and social damage from parental addiction. In order to determine their effectiveness we will first look at the history and processes of each institution drawing from the works of Tian Dayton in “Psychodrama in the Psychotherapy of Adults Who Have Been Raised in Addictive Families (ACOAs), Isaac Youcha’s "Long-Term Psychological and Physiological Consequences of Trauma in Childhood Revisited: Implications for the Group Therapist's...
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...Clin Soc Work J (2014) 42:323–335 DOI 10.1007/s10615-014-0496-z ORIGINAL PAPER Trauma Through the Life Cycle: A Review of Current Literature Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner Alexandrea Josephine Calnan • Highlight every key term that refers to the following key concepts: 1) "trauma" generally a) "large T trauma" b) "micro-trauma" 2) "resilience" Published online: 31 May 2014 Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract This paper provides an overview of common traumatic events and responses, with a specific focus on the life cycle. It identifies selected ‘‘large T’’ and ‘‘micro’’ traumas encountered during childhood, adulthood and late life, and the concept of resilience. It also identifies the differences in traumatic events and reactions experienced by men compared to women, those related to the experience of immigration, and cross generational transmission of trauma. Descriptions of empirically-supported treatment approaches of traumatized individuals at the different stages of the life cycle are offered. Keywords PTSD Á Large-T and micro-traumas Á Neurobiology Á Gender differences Á Immigrants Á Treatment approaches The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. Judith Lewis Herman S. L. A. Straussner (&) Silver School of Social Work, New York University, 1 Washington...
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