Families are experiencing traumatic events that cause homelessness. Divorce, cost of living, sickness, drug addiction, PTSD in war victims and mental disabilities are the leading causes of being homeless. Unfortunately in these days and times an everyday occurrence to poor people can cause homelessness. Debilitating illnesses or death can cause people to lose their homes as well. Hurricane Katrina had a major effect on people’s lives; there were thousands of families that lost their homes to that devastating natural cause.
They suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder, major injuries and sometimes death. These actions can have negative effects on every part of the victim's life and the lives of their family. Police brutality greatly affects the community because it is the duty of the police to protect that community. Once a case of police brutality comes out in the community, the people of that community will no longer feel safe and will not trust the police. One incident involving just one officer could ruin or taint the police
| 1 in 5 people lost their jobs because many buildings were destroyed, Haiti’s large industry clothing was one of the worst affected, and were a lot of people lost their jobs. | 250,000 homes, 30,000 other building were either destroyed or badly damaged this included the presidents palace and around 60% of the government buildings. | Because of the large number of deaths the hospitals reached their capacity and bodies had to be piled up out on the streets. | Transport and communication links were badly damaged and destroyed, things like bridges. | The amount of bodies out on the street caused a lot of diseases to spread, diseases like, cholera.
Sometimes people with jobs are one tragedy away from being homeless. Homelessness is very stressful, causing many problems such as depression, low self-esteem, and drug and alcohol abuse. Everyone is different and responds to homelessness in different ways. Children who have to deal with extreme poverty and homelessness might have trouble learning, emotional and physical problems, and bad behavior to name a few. Children find this confusing and upsetting.
Safeguarding Vulnerable People Regrettably, every day, vulnerable people across the UK suffer abuse of some kind. When abuse is reported, Essex County Council and its partner agencies for example, Essex Police, NHS and the voluntary services will take joint action to ensure vulnerable people are safeguarded from further abuse, and their risks are managed appropriately. Who is a vulnerable adult? A vulnerable adult is any person aged 18 or over who: 1. is or maybe in need of a community care service by reason of mental, physical or learning disability, age or illness. And who 2. is, or maybe, unable to take care of him or herself or unable to protect him or herself against significant harm or serious exploitation.
Living with constant pain is debilitating and exhausting for patients. Studies show that persistent pain interferes with activities of daily living (ADL’s) and social interactions (Breivik 2009). This can result in serious psychosocial implications. Patients can become anxious and depressed which in turn promotes physiological changes within the body. Studies have been conducted which corroborate this.
In this paper, I explore the signs and symptoms of acute stress disorder and acute stress reactions, coping skills, treatment of, and if having a child with cancer can lead to one of these disorders. Introduction Everyone experiences some type of stress throughout his or her life. The loss of a job, divorce, becoming a victim of crime, and getting married are all examples of stressful experiences. Although the aforementioned events are stressful, having a child with cancer has a devastating effect on both the child with cancer and his or her family members. Parents of a child with cancer are affected emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually (Fletcher, 2010).
Lawrence 1 Tragedy Tragedy is inevitable; it affects all individuals at one point or another. Losing a lost one is hard for anyone and coping with the loss is a difficult process. Russell Banks illustrates this in “The Sweet Hereafter.” After a terrible bus crash occurs, resulting in the death of multiple children, many people of Sam Dent either isolate themselves due to the loss and grief of their children or turn to religion as a comfort for the unfortunate disaster. Throughout the different chapters, we are shown how tragedy affects different people in different ways. There is a close analysis between the three main characters: Billy Ansel, Nichole Burnell and Dolores Driscoll, who all face the situation of death and injury within the
The men and women currently deployed to these areas frequently engage in combat, and regularly witness injuries, trauma, and death. Even if a person tries not to internalize the horrific events they experience, they will likely be changed by war. Soldiers are negatively affected by combat; many return from war with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, alcoholism, and suicidal thoughts. Some soldiers return from war with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. According to the article "What Is Combat PTSD?”, Diagnosing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can be hard because soldiers view reporting their symptoms as a sign of weakness (What, 1).
“Applying aversive psychological tactics in a random and variable manner together with some periods of withdrawal of the aversive stimuli and substitution of pleasure or loving behavior is known to create psychological dependency, learned helplessness, or other deleterious conditions for victims” (Walker 145). Battered women cry and start to lose respect for the abuser. The woman will feel guilty all the time. It can provoke a woman to feel ashamed and she would have low self-esteem. Women who are battered can develop mental trauma.