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and nightmares are PTSD episodes. These episodes are commonly depicted of reliving the traumatic event vividly. Flashbacks may be triggered by an object or situation, which can reanimate the traumatic event within the victim’s memory (American Psychology Association, 2013). Not only are nightmares symptoms of PTSD but nightmares are also a factor that causes another symptom—insomnia. According to Vandrey, Babson, Herrmann, and Bonn-Miller (2014), 70%-87% of people with PTSD experience insomnia,…

Barege Professor Veleva MGT 330 30 November 2016 The lack of debriefing for family members of combat soldiers. In the last decade since the war in the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq began, each year thousand of soldiers are coming back home from deployment to families who do not know how to handle the changes their loving soldier will face coming back from most likely horrendous experiences. Normally, before deployment, soldiers would be briefed as to what to expect in the war zone, such as…

Gizella Valencia Social Psychology 112 December 10, 2015 Caregivers face various psychological distresses due to the extensive labor required in providing aid for young, elderly, ill, and disabled. Often news of an abusive caretaker or babysitter arise depicting physical abuse committed towards another who is less competent. According to the statistical data collected in 2011, 1 in 10 of the elderly, solely, were abused by a caretaker (NCEA) and the probabilities continue to increase. The…

A Gesture Life is about a Korean man Franklin “Doc” Hata, who was adopted at a young age and raised in a Japanese family. Hata is in his seventies, and lives in a suburban town, Bedley Run. He is content with his big house, and the relationships he has made from owning a local medical supply shop, “Sunny’s”, which he sold to a young couple. Hata begins to have flashbacks to his time serving for the Japanese army in Burma. He hides his Korean origins during his time in war, until a group of…

The importance of psychological treatment and art/music therapy to patients with Cancer. Art is defined as “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” Art therapy consists of treatments that encourage free expression and catharsis using methods such as art and music analysis, painting, sculpting, and composing, among many others…

symptoms of severe substance use disorder and potentially childhood trauma. According to the criteria from the DSM-5 on Substance Use Disorder, the “substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Gwen shared that she and her boyfriend recently woke up late prior to their attendance at their friend’s wedding, unable to remember the details leading up to the end of the night. This, and other shared accounts from the…

perpetrators could write anything on the internet, and not necessarily be caught by the administration, who normally only observes what happens directly on the campus. In the Public Service Announcement (PSA), “Cyberbullying”, produced by the American Bar Association, Matt Lanter’s use of pathos, expresses his idea of cyberbullying in schools being an issue clearer than his use of ethos and logos. In the…

Some soldiers came out of the trenches stuttering, trembling or even blind. First documented during WWI, soldiers had nightmares when they accidently killed a comrade. Those situations could have an effect on the physical, physiological, and psychological parts of troops. Throughout most of WWI, a majority of the warfare used shells or missiles. The psychiatrist believed that shell shock was a literal shocking to the brain in the frontal lobe (Rae, 2007). PTSD was not a recognized disorder…

The Vietnam War The Vietnam war was the first war that the United States of America lost. This war was one of the bloodiest that the United States had fought since the civil war. A total of around fifty-eight thousand Americans were killed, three hundred fifty thousand were wounded, and two thousand were captured as Prisoners of War. The Vietnam War was utterly devastating for our troops and potentially for our country. Robert J.McMahon states in his book, Major Problems in the History of the…

Abuse may be physical, financial or material exploitation, emotional or psychological, abandonment, sexual, neglect or self-neglect. Physical abuse is the use of violence that may result in pain, injury or impairment and includes hitting, shoving, restraining, burning and inappropriate use of medications. Emotional or psychological abuse is pain or distress from verbal or non-verbal acts such as insulting comments, giving the silent treatment or name…