Being in the army can be very life changing. A lot is going on and some of those things can really affect how a person can think or react to different situations. A normal person can be in a situation where danger is coming their way and feel scared, which is what people usually do, but with post-traumatic stress disorder it is as if you feel danger when a person who doesn’t have this disorder wouldn’t feel danger. For example, if a person with ptsd or post-traumatic stress disorder was to hear firecrackers out of nowhere they would probably freak out and believe that there is danger and could react in a bad way depending on what their thinking. There are ways to help people with this disorder. In a study research was done to see
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The other form of therapy is called cpt or cognitive processing therapy. In cpt they try to reduce the symptoms of ptsd by taking a blast to the past. Now nobody is using a time machine in this study, but basically they face what happened in the past that caused them to get the way they have become and overcome the problem that way. To see which way works best for people with the ptsd they decided to do a randomized clinical trial with 108 people (8 were women and the rest were men) who are on active duty by dividing them up and requiring them to attend 90 minute sessions twice a week to fort hood, Texas. In the end both approaches to post traumatic stress disorder were effective and did help the patients improve, but cognitive processing therapy came on top for being more efficient when it came to helping them with their …show more content…
The people who were being studied were u.s. army active duty soldiers who actually wanted help with their disorder. All 108 participants could read and speak English but had different levels of education. Mention earlier in the essay there were 100 men and only 8 women in this research study. Where is the diversity? Why only 8 women were being studied. It should have only been just men or they should have added more women. Women are considered in society emotional creature, where the men are suppose to be these providers and protectors. The fact that post-traumatic stress disorder connects with how you feel wouldn’t it be better if they tried to figure out what works best with the men and what works best with the women? Gender plays a big role in healing. If you see a little girl crying you would probably try to comfort her but with a boy you might comfort him and then tell him that he needs to be strong and suck it up. That’s when gender becomes a part of how you approach someone in certain situations. In this case they should have did women and men separate to get a better understanding on exactly what kind of treatment would be best for a patient with the posttraumatic stress disorder. Besides gender I believe education comes in 2nd through this research study. The first thing that is impacted when it comes to this disorder is the brain if you really think about it. If you think of it like a video game, you would be the game and your
The other form of therapy is called cpt or cognitive processing therapy. In cpt they try to reduce the symptoms of ptsd by taking a blast to the past. Now nobody is using a time machine in this study, but basically they face what happened in the past that caused them to get the way they have become and overcome the problem that way. To see which way works best for people with the ptsd they decided to do a randomized clinical trial with 108 people (8 were women and the rest were men) who are on active duty by dividing them up and requiring them to attend 90 minute sessions twice a week to fort hood, Texas. In the end both approaches to post traumatic stress disorder were effective and did help the patients improve, but cognitive processing therapy came on top for being more efficient when it came to helping them with their …show more content…
The people who were being studied were u.s. army active duty soldiers who actually wanted help with their disorder. All 108 participants could read and speak English but had different levels of education. Mention earlier in the essay there were 100 men and only 8 women in this research study. Where is the diversity? Why only 8 women were being studied. It should have only been just men or they should have added more women. Women are considered in society emotional creature, where the men are suppose to be these providers and protectors. The fact that post-traumatic stress disorder connects with how you feel wouldn’t it be better if they tried to figure out what works best with the men and what works best with the women? Gender plays a big role in healing. If you see a little girl crying you would probably try to comfort her but with a boy you might comfort him and then tell him that he needs to be strong and suck it up. That’s when gender becomes a part of how you approach someone in certain situations. In this case they should have did women and men separate to get a better understanding on exactly what kind of treatment would be best for a patient with the posttraumatic stress disorder. Besides gender I believe education comes in 2nd through this research study. The first thing that is impacted when it comes to this disorder is the brain if you really think about it. If you think of it like a video game, you would be the game and your