1 Policies and procedures of the setting or service in response to accidents, incident and illness Assess the situation to see how bad it is. Reassure and comfort child. Treat injury if necessary in the medical room and or with the first aid kit and first aider. Record accident in ‘Accident record Book’ including the time, date, location of injury on the body, child’s name, how it happened and nature of injury / accident. Treatment that was given.
More specifically, the trauma is more overwhelmingly powerful when they witnesses and event in which another person may have been killed, seriously injured or threatened. All of this may result in intense helplessness, or horror. This severely affects all aspects of their life. PTSD and its symptoms take over an individual’s life and relationships. The consequences of which are phenomenal.
PTSD occurs when an individual is directly exposed to a traumatic event. Catherall (p. 1, 2004) explains that the Greek translation of trauma is wounding”. Today, trauma has reached epic proportions due to the increase of violence in society and the world in general (Seahorn and Seahorn, 2008). It is often the result of an extreme experience that “can violate three basic premises: the belief in personal invulnerability, the perception of the world as meaningful, and the positive view of self” (Balk, 2001). Clear biological changes occur within the person’s body and mind.
Sharon Knight PTSD Instructor: Carrie Miller Composition II-166 December 12, 2012 PTSD means Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, an emotional and psychological reaction to trauma (a painful, shocking experience). PTSD affects the stress hormones and chemicals that carry information between the nerves (PDR 2012). Some causes of PTSD are assault, domestic abuse, a prison stay, rape, terrorism and/or war. No one really knows all the causes of PTSD nor is it documented that everyone that say they have it actually has it. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a type of anxiety disorder that can make the person feel stressed and angry and it has no age limits.
However, how we process emotions after such traumatic events is distinctive to different people. Most victims develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder especially when they lose family members or friends. Indirectly affected people face acute stress after reading or watching traumatic events on the television and newspapers. Children are most affected because they develop phobias (Schein, 2006). In case natural disaster like floods or earthquake, the survivors may have distressing dreams while children become excessively frightened.
There is no person who is immune to the effects of trauma. Trauma impacts on the individual, families, and societies by disrupting developments that are healthy, severely affecting relationships, and this contributes to mental health issues which includes domestic violence, substance abuse, and child abuse. The price is paid by everyone whenever a community creates multi-generations of individuals with untreated trauma by loss of wages, an increase in crime, and threat to the families’ stability. Becoming ‘trauma-informed’ basically means recognizing the fact that people normally have a lot of different kinds of trauma in their lives. Individuals who have been traumatized require support and understanding from the ones around them.
Anxiety disorder also is the main type of mental ill health according to the psychiatric classification system. Anxiety is defined as being prolonged symptoms of stress which affect the quality of a person's life, usually for six months or more. Basically, everyone can experienced anxiety on occasion, for example, when person is facing an event or situation that makes him/her feel nervous, stressed, fearful and
They show varying statistics about who has it, what it is, and how to treat PTSD. Understanding and learning to cope with this disorder requires more than simply studying statistics and figures. According to the article “Understanding PTSD”, Friedman (2012) states that more than 2.5 million men and women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past 10 years, with many having several deployments. Any military service member will tell you that they were changed in many ways, both positive and negative. Because of this, it is very important to understand the causes, effects, and treatments for PTSD.
Ike was a huge economic burden to the U.S. and “estimates suggest Ike may become one of the costliest hurricanes on record” (FEMA 10). Hurricanes are known for causing severe structural damage to houses, but also have an effect on many businesses as well. Many people had to evacuate and be out of work for up to two weeks due to power outage and debris. Also, some businesses were damaged by flooding and wind, which caused the loss of crucial business equipment. Businesses were flooded along the Texas coast and lost all of their vital technology such as computers, telephones, and other office equipment.
For example, if a client needs to find cheap furniture to re-furnish after an apartment fire the caseworker can provide contact information for local charities that provide those supplies. Client caseworkers also make sure to call clients and follow up on their situation after a disaster. I was often impressed with how personalized the caseworkers would try to be with clients. Staff and volunteers showed genuine concern and interest in cases. Caseworkers made sure to read the case file and ask clients if they needed further assistance when closing their CAC accounts.