A Case Evaluation of Noah Pierce Afaf Al-Ghamdi PRESENTING PROBLEM Noah reports he felt depression shame, regret, insomnia, guilt, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD over the fatal killings that he committed or witnessed in Iraq that led him for a suicide to get rid of his self-agony, growing sense of isolation, and feeling the lack of morality. Clinical Formulation Noah Pierce suffered guilt, shame, insomnia, psychological and moral injury due to feeling regret about involving in an unjustified war. Noah has experienced episodes of isolation, self-hatred, agony, despair, having consistent nightmares, sleeplessness, violence that has occurred unexpectedly, and frequently during and after his deployment to Iraq.…
Hi Diseree, working with this population is hard in that aspect because in any giving moment victims make the decision to go back the abuser but only think we could do is talk about safety all the time and remimded them that they had to use their support systme without abuse. Something that we never do is judger the victim is sad when they go back to abuser but we has to continue serving them.…
Commonalities identified in offenders include 1) person is usually white male, 35 to 45 years of age, 2) person has a keen interest in firearms, 3) person identifies with violence, 4) person is chronically disgruntled, 5) person has a migratory job history, 6) person rarely takes responsibility for his or her own actions, 7) person is loner with little social support, 8) person takes criticism poorly, and 9) person is more than a casual user of alcohol and drugs. Furthermore, there are pre-incident factors that individuals display, which can help predict violence at the workplace. Persons having these factors will display 1) an increase in the use of alcohol or drugs, 2) an excess amount of tardiness and absences, 3) a decrease in attention to personal hygiene, 4) depression or withdrawal, 5) outbursts of anger and rage, 6) threats or verbal abuses to colleagues, 7) continual comments about suicide, 8) unstable emotional responses, 9) frequent complaints about personal health, 10) feelings of paranoia, 11) obsession with prior acts of violence, 12) an increase in mood swings, 13) an increase in domestic problems, 14) large money withdrawals from bank accounts, 15) empathy with persons who commit violence, 16) resistance to change in procedures, 17) continual violations of company policies, 18) an…
However, due to its reliance on the relationships between family members, it may be more difficult to use in families presenting with abuse of violence. Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy Cognitive behavioral family therapy (CBFT), is a problem-focused treatment that relies on clinician-guided client observations and feedback (Patterson, 2014). There is also an emphasis on the goals set around the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors or actions of each individual in the family in the context of their environment. CBFT is goal-centered, which gives clinicians more accessible opportunities to measure success. However, it may assume a level of mental health and learning ability within each member of the family, which may not be appropriate for all clients.…
| | |[pic]Human rights exist only as a result of the proper discipline of military forces.…
The Social-Conflict Approach sees “society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change” (Macionis 11). This approach says that any cultural trait could be a source of conflict because it will benefit some and hinder others (Macionis 54). These conditions are seen as the norm and generally positive by those who benefit from them, but those who gain nothing see the inequalities in the system. Good students may just assume that people who don’t do well in school just aren’t working hard enough. The good students assume that everyone earns scholarships, that no one has issues getting into a good college, but those students who don’t do well see all the problems with the education system they are apart of.…
Independent studies looking at the efficacy of MST treatment in community settings are still relatively new. Much of the research that has been conducted on MST has been performed by developers of the treatment. However, one of the first independent studies of MST found that the treatment was more effective than treatment as usual in treating youth and families in the juvenile justice system (Timmons-Mitchell, Bender, Kishna, & Mitchell, 2006). Treatment as usual consisted of monitoring by probation officers, and appropriate referrals to drug and alcohol counselors, anger management groups, and individual and family therapy.…
Another theory that connects with gentrification and social issues amongst homeless people is the social conflict theory. The social conflict theory was invented by Karl Marx. Marx explanation for this theory was the following “the causes and consequences of class conflict between the owners of the means of production and the capitalists and the working class and the poor” (Social Conflict Theory, 2016, pg. 1). This basically means Marx’s (2016) focused was on the different resources amounts withheld between lower social classes and higher social classes. This theory connection for gentrification is illustrated amongst the lower class residents who are forced to move somewhere else due to their low economic status.…
Conflict Essay The two conflicts that I have chosen to ‘compare and contrast’ the nature and causes are the Russia and Ukraine conflict as well as the Israel and Palestine conflict. Both involve conflict over land and have big historical backgrounds. Both also include military and war. Whilst the reasons for the cause are different.…
This paper delves into a existing treatment plan for a client whom I have been working with over the past year in an in-home setting. The client is a five year old male diagnosed with Autism. Exhibiting a tantrum behavior has proven to be problematic. Parents have stressed that they are unsure of what to do when he engages in a tantrum behavior.…
Aggression- A concept analysis The concept of aggression is important because such behavior threatens the security and wellbeing of people in the clinical therapeutic environment. Aggression can result in social, psychological, physical and financial repercussions on the aggressor. Human aggression is any conduct aimed toward another person that is performed with the intent to cause harm. Violence is aggression in action because it is a physical assault with intent to harm or hurt another.…
When one thinks of trauma one may associate it with trauma centers at medical centers or from television shows in which the cause of injury or death was blunt force trauma. NBC once aired a television shows called Trauma. The show Trauma was based on a group of paramedics in San Francisco, California and the traumatic situations they enouuntered as paramedics. While Webster’s dictionary defines it as "an injury (as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent:" It is also defined as "a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury" (merriam-webster, 2015).…
Unconventional Warfare (UW) is considered the trademark of the U.S. Army Special Forces (SF). In fact, UW often serves as the focus for training, planning, and discussion within every aspect of the SF community. Most debates involving UW turn into an analysis of defining Unconventional Warfare and trying to figure out how to fit current SF operations into that definition. Special Forces prides itself on owning UW and serving as the Department of Defense’s subject matter experts on operating by, with, and through an indigenous force. The debate over Special Force’s ownership of this domain should not rely solely on the training, funding, or even doctrine that validates UW as a SF core task.…
Gannon Holmgren September, 23, 2015 Prof. Mooney Conflict Theory MW Class Conflict Theory Conflict theory suggests that human behavior in social contexts results from conflict between competing groups. There is a lot that this theory needs to have covered and it ranges from the history, a detailed explanation, examples of the concepts, and a reflection to the theory itself. In order to have a good grasp on what exactly conflict theory is trying to prove a variety of topics will be discussed. At the very core conflict theory can be described as by two groups in a disagreement that eventually settle for an alternative outcome through controversial means.…
A number of studies have been done in the United States to find out how big the problem of drug abuse is in American school systems, and the results are not pretty. In fact, it shows that teen substance abuse is the country’s number #1 health problem, according to a study done by CASA at Columbia University. For instance, that study revealed that 9 out 10 Americans that are addicted, as per the medical definition of addiction, meaning they are dependent on drugs or alcohol, started drinking, smoking or using drugs in their teen years. Further, the study points out that early exposure to addictive substances makes people more likely to become addicted; in comparison, only one out of 25 Americans that started using drugs or alcohol at the age…