Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale (PDS) CNSL/526 May 11, 2012 Desirae Hutchinson, M.S., IMFT Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale (PDS) The Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale (PDS) is design for psychologists, SW, MFT, and counselors. This tool helps screen clients who suffer from PTSD, also known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This instrument created in 1997, the test measures the strength of symptoms “related to a single identified traumatic event” (US Department of Veterans
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Environmental Psychology Article Analysis Introduction to Article Analysis For the majority of the human population there has been an event or events that possibly produced an occurrence that had a large impact upon the persons’ overall perception and ability to function regularly. In some instances individuals are able to overcome the occurrence or event, but for some such events can trigger a potent impact that can create an eruption in their cognitive response, when this
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Diagnosis The patient, Holden Caulfield is experiencing what I presume to be Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. Holden is going through a lot of difficult situations in his life that he got him a little mislead, such as failing almost all his classes, trouble with his roommate, and leaving his school altogether. The situations Holden is being put through aren’t easy for him and cause him a lot of stress that changes the way that he acts, and feels. Caulfield is experiencing flashbacks
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Analyze combat and operational stress reactions (COSRs) Combat Stress Controlling combat stress is often the deciding factor between victory and defeat in all forms of human conflict. Stressors are a fact of combat, and you and your Soldiers will face them. Controlled combat stress can call forth stress reactions of loyalty, selflessness, and heroism. Conversely, uncontrolled combat stress causes erratic or harmful behavior that disrupts or interferes with the accomplishment of a unit’s mission
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Abstract Posttraumatic stress disorder is a common and disabling disorder that develops as a consequence of traumatic events and is characterized by distressing re-experiencing portions of the trauma, avoidance of reminders, emotional numbing and hyper-arousal. In spite of the deleterious impact of PTSD within the U.S. military, our current understanding of the human pathophysiology governing the divergent paths associated with extreme stress response the
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Case study Daniel Seavey Phoenix University Josh is a 27 year-old male who recently moved back in with his parents after his fiancée was killed by a drunk driver 3 months ago. His fiancée, a beautiful young woman he’d been dating for the past 4 years, was walking across a busy intersection to meet him for lunch one day. He still vividly remembers the horrific scene as the drunk driver ran the red light, plowing down his fiancée right before his eyes. He raced to her side, embracing her crumpled
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Current Events in Business Research Business Research RES/351 January 13, 2016 Instructor: Business research can be described as a study in which a business or company gather data and analyzes it in order for better decision making and output. There are several steps in executing a research the first step is data collection process. There are several ways to collect data like interviews, surveys, questionnaires and databases. I’m currently employed at the Weed Army Community
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Executive Summary Table of Content 1.0 Introduction Newth (2011) defines stress as an applied force or systems of forces which tend to strain an individual body in such a way that the particular individual experiences the feeling of ‘not being in control’. From the psychology point of view, stress can also be considered as a reaction to a stimulus that disturbs an individual’s physical or mental equilibrium (Psychology Today, 2014). Given that numerous stressful events are capable of triggering
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The first reason on why war is never good is because of the effect it has on the participants and their families. When soldiers arrive from war they are not mentally stable and face difficulties when trying to participate in regular activities. Not to mention, they also suffer from physical problems such as asthma, tuberculosis and other complicated health problems. The main causes to these health problems are the dangerous chemicals that soldiers are exposed to when fighting in many wars. In addition
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Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) can have major and long lasting effects on the cognition of the people who suffer from them. Cognition is the mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making (Goldstein, 2015). Previous research on individuals who had TBI is wide and varied. There is always evolving and new information being produced in this area of research. The US Military has also taken an interest in this area, as the instances
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