Individuals who have been traumatized require support and understanding from the ones around them. In most cases, survivors of trauma can be re-traumatized through well-meaning guardian and service providers in the community. Trauma Informed Care projects attempt to educate our societies regarding the effect of trauma on clients, family, friends, co-workers, and even ourselves. Getting to know the effect of trauma is a necessary first step of one being a compassionate and supportive community (Bloom, S. L. 1997 ). For every trauma, the diagnosis criteria are accordance to descriptive text that helps in diagnostic decision making.
Whatever the rate, there is little debate that PTSD affects substantial numbers of returning troops and is associated with significant disability and distress for both the veteran and his/her family. The key challenge is to ensure that the disorder is recognized quickly and to make sure that reliable pathways to evidence-based care are available” (2011). Patients with PTSD have the same desire; to regain control of their lives and learn to cope with this disorder in order to live as normal a life as possible, as they did prior to developing PTSD. The medical field has developed several reliable ways to treat PTSD. The treatments often include medications and psychotherapy, or a combination of the two.
a. There is a mistaken assumption that anyone experiencing a traumatic event will have PTSD. This is far from true. Studies vary, but confirm that only a fraction of those facing trauma will develop PTSD (Elliott 1997, Kulka et al 1990, Breslau et al 1991). b. a history of PTSD when it came to experiencing problems with alcohol abuse or dependence.
Skeptics prove to differ on the onset of PTSD, especially if head trauma is already acknowledged. Most researchers believe that the onset of PTSD will not be dormant for long periods of time before symptoms are revealed. PTSD may also develop when a person witnesses physical harm against someone else, or the direct experience of physical injury through assault, violence, or accident. Women have a higher percentage of having PTSD than do most men. However, most men have a higher percentage of sustaining head injuries than women.
Stephen Barlas reports in Psychiatric Times that antidepressants are found to cause “possible suicidal ideation and suicide attempts as side effects” (2006). With these possible side effects, parents are looking at other treatment options to help their children, including the combination of antidepressants with cognitive behavioral therapy. When researching about various antidepressants, fluoxetine, also known as Prozac, offered the most relevant and conclusive data concerning its effects on adolescents, and it was the most noted antidepressant combined with cognitive behavioral therapy. This paper will examine the symptoms of adolescent depression, how using the antidepressant fluoxetine affects depression in adolescents, and the results of studies using the combination of fluoxetine and cognitive behavioral therapy to treat major depression in
This study examines the prevalence of childhood physical abuse among a sample of offenders serving community corrections orders in Queensland. We acknowledge that high-risk groups such as the offenders in the sample are likely to have experienced various forms of maltreatment; however, physical abuse is the only aspect of child maltreatment examined in this paper. Preliminary research findings have indicated that physical abuse affects males and females differently. Although females are slightly less likely than males to be victims of physical abuse (e.g. National Child Protection Clearing House 2004), two studies have found that being a victim of physical abuse is a significant predictor of violent offending for females but not for males (Herrera & McCloskey 2001; Widom & Maxfield 2001).
It made me happy for the survivors but also sad that they had to be put through such a traumatic life experience. I would love to participate in many events such as this to offer assistance in any area needed. These fundraisers and events are important because there are so many people in need of unaffordable assistance and the fundraisers help them to get the treatment
A certain stimuli can re-kindle a memory of a high stress situation leading to the personnel re-experiencing the original trauma through flashbacks Psychological problems are not always limited to the military personnel. Immediate and extended family can also experience the effects. This can become more apparent during the “Homecoming After Deployment” phase. Spouses and children have often adjusted to new roles to make-up for the absence of the family member. There is often a re-distribution of responsibilities to fill the gap.
Anxiety is a state of apprehension, worry or fear. Anxiety causes intense stress at the time of the incident.This means that the eyewitness may have difficulty encoding the information during the acquisition stage of the memory process, The results of research into the effect of anxiety on eyewitness testimony have been highly mixed. It is believed that eye witness testimony is most accurate when the anxiety level is somewhere in between low and high. There is Research showing that anxiety has a positive effect on eye witness testimony such as Yuille and Cutshall they interviewed people who had witnessed a real life shooting and found that recall was very accurate despite high levels of anxiety. However, the people who were subjected to the highest levels of anxiety were nearest to the incident so would have been able to see more clearly what happened.
Introduction Secondary victimisation is where the victims of crime are treated with disrespect and have had their basic human rights ignored. In certain instances, this secondary victimisation can be far more traumatic to the victim than the initial crime. Not only can the secondary victimisation be due to the treatment by criminal justice officials, but also by the victim’s family, friends or community. Secondary victimisation in the court process Secondary victimisation refers to behaviours and attitudes of social service providers that are "victim-blaming" and insensitive, and which traumatise victims of violence who are being served by these agencies. A victim of rape (primary victimisation), for example, may be subjected to victim blaming and ostracism as the result of the attack; those who become disabled (primary victimisation) may be subjected to non-accommodation, medicalization, and segregation; and those who develop mental disorder (primary victimisation) may be subject to institutionalisation, that in each case may be far more victimising to these individuals and limiting of their life opportunity than the primary victimising stigmatic condition itself, and are thus called secondary victimisation.