Upon the initial impact of a traumatic experience an individual can experience a vast number of psychological and physical reactions. Many factors will contribute to how an individual will respond in the face of a traumatic incident such as their social networks, prior trauma, personality, upbringing, resiliency as well as many other variables. Every person is unique therefore how they respond to a trauma will be different than how another person will respond. (Van der Kolk, McFarland & Weisaeth, 2007). The reactions of the individual immediately after a trauma can be debilitating and beyond frightening but the human mind and body are well equipped to cope with the symptoms that result from trauma (Freidman, 2015). The stress reactions experienced
