Annotated Bibliography Topic: War Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Sub Topics: Chronic PTSD in Vietnam Veterans PTSD in Iraq War Veterans SOURCE 1: What is PTSD? Retrieved on 13 Nov. 2011 http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/pages/what-is-ptsd.asp UNDERSTANDING PTSD Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur after you have been through a traumatic event. A traumatic event is something horrible and scary that you see or that happens to you. During
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Day-to-Day Stress Omar R. Hameen GEN/200 May 17, 2011 Barbara Alston Day-to-Day Stress In the following paper I would like to talk about a problem that causes stress my daily life. I will describe how to gather information to help me solve this problem and where the information can be obtained. In this paper I will talk about my experiences and how I deal various forms of stressors at home and in social settings. Daily stress Stress is a term used by many, is severly misunderstood
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kidney filtration. CTE was also a possible concern as evidenced by the patient participating in contact sports for several years. Several contusions or injuries to the brain can cause a degenerative brain disease. A heroin overdose and alcohol toxicity provoked the mentioned complications. Opioid overdose is a leading cause of accidental death among adult in the United States. Prescription opioids are believed to serve as a gateway to the use of heroin, which is more accessible and more affordable
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increases, the more likely you are to meet a person who has the disease. I have a close and personal relationship with asthma. My ex wife three sons have asthma and they deal with the disease everyday each case a little different. Today, I will discuss some interesting facts about asthma; I will specifically focus on what are asthma, warning signs, symptoms, causes, and the treatments that are used. What is Asthma? Asthma is best described by its technical name: Reversible Obstructive Airway
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war. CBS reports that 18 VETS commit suicide every day. My name is,______________ I have been a member of a crisis intervention team for 20 years. THESIS- Today I want to discuss suicide. We will go over some of the causes, signs and symptoms and ways you can help. Suicide is defined in the Webster dictionary as the act of taking ones own life on purpose. MAIN POINT 1 Untreated Mental Illness is the number one cause of suicide. SUB POINT1 Suicidal thoughts can be triggered
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In this unit I will show an in-depth understanding of health and wellbeing. I will then produce a comprehensive description that shows an in depth understanding of two different factors that affect health and wellbeing. I will also compare and show the differences between the medical and social models of health and wellbeing and why individuals often fail to comply with health education advice. I will then draw conclusions about each model of health and wellbeing. I will then aim to give a description
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Leanne: A Case Study in Major Depressive Disorder, Recurrent Leanne came to the office because she stated that her depression had worsened in recentmonths and that she was feeling nervous and panicky almost daily. She is 31 years old. Leanne described her home situation as “less than ideal.” She separated from her husband two years ago and found herself barely able to meet her financial obligations of the mortgage that was onceshared and the other household bills. She noted that she was laid off
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Stroke Prevention Christina Thompson Grand Canyon Stroke Prevention What is a stroke? For my teaching plan I chose cognitive learning and so I created a poster-board and discussion on stroke explaining what a stroke is and signs and symptoms of one. The teaching itself consisted spending a lot of time at my community health department, specifically with the community health nurse, getting to know what their role is and how they accomplish much of what they do. She helped me set aside some
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with the emotional, psychological, and social effects of a hearing loss. The physical aspects of hearing impairment, including hearing mechanisms and how the ear functions are also discussed. The topic is important because understanding the various causes of hearing loss in addition to methods and resources to help with coping with a hearing loss will assist in improving communication with family members, friends, co-workers and complete strangers resulting in a better quality of life. This
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The proper categorization can be Dysthymic Disorder, if Marla had experienced symptoms for more than years. The synopsis does not have this information about Marla. The condition that Marla can have can be evaluated better if there was additional information that was gathered that could allowed for a cause that can be disclosed. Then, a remedy could be designed to fit Marla’s symptoms. Within the clinical interview the therapist can be putting together a
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