PTSD Essay

Many years ago when a woman was beaten by her spouse, people would call it wife beating. Today the beating of a partner is now called Intimate Partner Violence. The name was changed to IPV because in today’s society we acknowledge all types of partner violence. Violence could be wife on husband, husband on wife, or partner on partner. In 1994 legislation created the Violence against Women Act because the government finally recognized that violence against women has become more severe over the…

Diagnosis I started out diagnosing Mr. Shackleford with PTSD and slight OCD. As I researched a little more on the multitude of disorders I now believe that he should be diagnosed with PTSD and specific phobia. He has many qualities that relate to many disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, and generalized anxiety disorder. Out of all five of these disorders I would still choose PTSD and specific phobia. Symptoms To be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder a…

Psychology Disaster Concepts Applied to Both Events PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a common result from all types of disasters, and the sinking of the Lusitania, and Hurricane Katrina affected many of the survivors in such a stressful way that they suffered and suffer from PTSD. Witnessing destruction along with losing loved ones, and seeing death all around is what survivors of both events endured. The fact that the sinking of the Lusitania happened very quickly may lead some…

1. A psychologist has an appointment with a new patient. The patient displays symptoms that indicate it could be anxiety, mood disorder, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Please explain how the psychologist would use the DSM to do a complete diagnosis on this new patient. Please remember to define each of the 3 possible disorders, and the DSM. Anxiety - The nervousness or agitation that we sometimes experience, often about something that is going to happen. Mood Disorder -…

Posttraumatic stress disorder, referred to as PTSD, characterizes the incapability to effectively manage overwhelming stress triggered by an or multiple periods of trauma. The manifestation of such a disorder has introduced the opportunity to stretch a single traumatic event over the duration of a lifetime. Traumatic events, which are formally understood as events that contain or threaten detrimental injury, work in conjunction with the experience of at least one or a combination of intense fear…

client is enrolled in school and works a part-time job. The client did not display or disclose any Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms during the assessment. However, the client did share that he has military friends with PTSD. Student Clinician’s Impressions: This student clinician does not feel that the client would meet diagnostic criteria for PTSD. Based on the diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5, the client only meets criteria A. On the Life Event’s Check List, the client…

they would take pictures of them and pee on them. Not a good rep for our military at all. People I know really lost a lot of respect for our troops after that incident. Another thing was when Chris Kyle died from getting shot by that war veteran with PTSD. The only good thing I can remember from our military is when we finally killed Osama Bin Laden. What we really need to do is show a bunch of good from our military. If they mess up its okay everyone does, plus if they mess up like the guys…

welcomed as a hero as he had imagined but rather as a coward and a baby-killer. Rambo, though a fictional character, is not the only one that suffers from PTSD. According to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (in Nebraska) thirty percent of men and women who were in a warzone have PTSD, specifically more than half of male Vietnam vets have PTSD. Post-traumatic stress disorder isn’t necessarily tied with war, but severe traumatic cases such as rape, sexual assault or childhood abuse/neglect also…

Rather than calling a survivor’s behaviours symptoms PTSD, to call them symptoms of RSS is to link them definitely and wholly to residential schools. This contradicts the narrative of blaming the victim; it places full responsibility on the residential school system. Some critique RSS as blaming the victim…

article I chose the researchers were trying to determine what the internalized and externalized symptoms of PTSD were in women who have been rape victims. They tested the women who had been raped and compared their symptoms and the severity of the symptoms. There were two hundred and sixty seven rape victims who were first initially in the trial, but sixty-four of them did not fall into the PTSD category. Then twenty-two other women were not allowed to continue the study for various reasons…