Trauma center

arousal (Matthews). Reliving is when victims continually live their traumatic experience through flashbacks, hallucinations, and nightmares. Avoiding occurs when the victim consciously avoids people, places, and events that bring back memories of their trauma leaving them feeling isolated. Increased arousal occurs when a victim is “having problems relating to…

Periodontal disease refers to any form of pathologic inflammation of the tissues that surround the teeth and it is considered one of the most common causes of teeth loss on adults in United States. According to a recent report from CDC (Control Disease Center), 47.2% of adults aged 30 years and older have some form of periodontal disease. There are two general categories of periodontal diseases, and their classification is based on whether there is attachment or bone loss involved in the…

inappropriate behavior resulted in being sentenced to prison. Antwone Fisher was born while his mother was incarcerated. Antwone Fisher has suffered from sexual abuse, trauma, emotional neglect, severe verbal abuse and abandonment. The client presented signs of emotional distress, poor anger management abilities and PTSD from past traumas that had yet to be resolved. Antwone Fisher was prone to displaying physical aggression anytime presented with overwhelming…

William presents with a combination of physical, cognitive, and psychological symptoms. His poor coping skills have also made him susceptible to depression and drug abuse. Although it is evident that William’s situation is exacerbated by a type1 trauma brought on through his exposure to combat while in the Army, his readjustment issues are also perpetuated by a traumatic brain injury (TBI), as his symptoms include anxiety, memory loss and dizziness. Treatments options for William should start…

Diagnostic Scale, the German version (PDS) (Ehlers, Steil, Winter, & Foa, 1997). This assessment tool from the Buros web-site (http://marketplace.unl.edu/buros/employee-reliability-inventory.html). The PDS is a 49-item self-report measure that assesses trauma history, which includes all Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DMS-IV) criteria for PTSD. PDS is an assessment of patients to recognize the existence of PTSD in a client. The PDS also indicates the severity and frequency…

disabled are not very well take care of, their family probably left them for that reason because they do not know how to take care of them. Some children lost their family members and live in a different household, an orphanage, in the streets or in a center. The children are both working and live in a poor household or are refugees. Each of the groups of children face many different challenges and have to find a way to survive. Being an orphan in Rwanda was tough they was not that many…

Psychology Association (APA) about the need to intervene into the matter. This essay discuses mental stressors that are unique to the army and how they are solved. Mental Stressors unique to the Army One of the mental stressors unique to the army is trauma of war (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2014, p. 1). It is the military that is involved in direct combat whenever the country is at war with any enemy. During the combat, many traumatic incidents are experienced such as the loss…

The premise is less cognitive and more physical. This article explains findings of the brain being physically altered by these traumatic childhood events. When helping those personality disorders, the other thought that perhaps that their early traumas led to the developing brains to alter their growth, particularly the hippocampus and the amygdala. Using electroencephalograms (EEGs) to measure the activity of patients’ limbic systems, in those who had documented serious abuse, the frontal and…

1. The non-profit organization that I teamed up with over the course of the semester is The Child Advocacy Center (CAC), located here in the city of Lincoln Nebraska. Their goal as a facility is to foster hope and healing, seek justice, and reduce trauma for children who may have experienced different types or other traumatic situations such as physical or sexual abuse. They work to provide a variety of services to families including medical evaluations, professional interviews, but most…

Attributes. Trauma is experienced if different ways and has several different criteria for diagnoses. One attribute of PTSD is that the traumatic event that it triggers must be experienced directly, as a witness, as the family or close friend of someone who experienced it directly, or first-hand repetitive exposure to details of traumatic events, not including…