Effects of Trauma on Clients and Counselors 1 The Effects of Trauma on Clients and Counselors :Week Eight Application Tonya James Walden University Manmade disasters and trauma causing events, such as hurricanes and suicide are events that have challenged the counseling community to learn more about how these events affect everyone involved (Digman and Ginter, 1995). None is exempt from experiencing either of these traumatic events. These events affect
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The initial response to the extensive disaster in the Gulf Coast area of New Orleans, resulted from Hurricane Katrina, showed high levels of ineptitude and disorganization by government officials. The world was shocked by images of distressed individuals awaiting salvage on their rooftops, and the masses of people packed together in unpardonable conditions, in the Super Dome. There was no hiding from the painful reality and obvious inaction or inability of those responsible for caring for the residents
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Introduction Hurricane Katrina became the New Orleans¡¦ biggest nightmare in year 2005. Even though the city was spared the full impact of the hurricane, the city¡¦s levees were breached and flooded more than 80 percent of the city. At the end of the day, the total death toll has reached 1,836 as of May 2006, and the experts estimated the total cost of Hurricane Katrina at $81.2 billion or more. It was true that Katrina was a natural disaster; therefore, it was unpredictable and unavoidable. Federal
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Disaster are the primary root of morbidity and mortality. Natural or manmade disasters that occurred in the past decay such as hurricane Katrina, terrorist attacks of September 11th of 2001, made everyone aware that disaster can happen anytime, anywhere and with out any warning. So many people have been affected, by losing their homes, family member, employment ,income, physical and mental health. Often time people feel powerless and depend on their community or government to assure their safety
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face down in the water dead overwhelmed by the harsh conditions and scarce necessities. While others swam and walked in the water taking a chance of finding aid before they too were to parish. People in the superdome headed out to take toll of the hurricanes wrath and evaluate the damage. Rumors suggested that the levees that had protected the city from flood where exploded by the government. The people of New Orleans
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Hurricanes are one of the most catastrophic events resulting in severe consequences including loss of life and property damage. The magnitude of devastation was evident in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf coast. Emergency management teams play a huge role in safeguarding the lives of people in endangered areas by evacuating them to safer locations as efficiently as possible. An evacuation plan is an essential component of an emergency plan. The evacuation plan for the
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disaster of Hurricane Sandy that devastated north east portion of the United States, specifically New York and New Jersey; has called for the services of emergency response units for response. Even to this day, thousands of people are without electricity and heat in their homes; others are homeless because their homes were destroyed by the wind, fire, and the Atlantic Ocean. Mitigation and having a Contingency Plan is important to help prevent high numbers of loss of life. When Hurricane Sandy came
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Over seven years ago, one of the deadliest hurricanes struck the United States on the early morning of August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina was an extraordinary powerful hurricane that took the lives of several people, and it is considered the third deadliest hurricane to ever strike the country on top of being the costliest. Devastation spread throughout the central Gulf Coast as people from the affected areas evacuated their cities in hopes that they would have a home and a place to work when they
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The initial response or lack thereof, to the widespread disaster in the Gulf Coast, caused by Hurricane Katrina, demonstrated high levels of incompetence and disorganization by government officials. Images of desperate individuals awaiting rescue on their rooftops, and masses of people packed together in deplorable conditions in the Super Dome, circulated the globe. There was no hiding from the painful reality and the obvious inaction or inability of those responsible to care for these individual
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you back, and nobody will be there to cloud your judgement. Survival requires selfishness so that you don't have any dead weight holding you back. For instance , in 2005, there was a pregnant woman named Rosezina who went into labor during hurricane Katrina. Knowing that she needed assistance, she left through her building’s fire escape and swam for two blocks. Unfortunately, she had to leave her 5-year old son who was screaming “mama! Come back!”. She swam until she reached a hospital where
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