Ballistic trauma

stockpiles as the US did. At the time of the talks, the US and Soviet Union had begun the process of creating anti-ballistic missiles which would protect them in the event that they were attacked with nuclear weapons. Interestingly enough, even this was seen as threatening as the nuclear weapons themselves. Anti-ballistic missiles are surface-to-air missiles which are capable of countering ballistic missiles used to deliver nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads. The development of these…

PTSD are first responders and Military personnel. According to the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, for every ten men, six of them will experience one incident in their life and for every 10 women, five will experience some sort if trauma as well. Women are more likely to develop PTSD than men. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, Post-Traumatic Stress disorder, “is a disorder that develops in some people who have seen or lived through a shocking, scary, or…

With the long-term deployment of United States military forces in several regions of the world, has led to new challenges for military members and their families. The constant deployment of a parent or a spouse to a combat zone has developed a challenge not seen in over a decade. Deployment is defined as any assignment away from the service member’s home, whether it is overseas or within the United States, or during peacetime or wartime. The effects of wartime deployments go past the average…

Client Identification: Peter Sheridan is a 46 year old, straight, married male that is employed as an insurance agent for a local insurance company where he once reside. He attended and finished high school and college in the United States of America. His family composition is composed of Thomas, who is 14 and on the report was shown a girl named Miranda or Megan, who is deceased at age of 1 year and 5 months I assumed. He is not the biological father of these two children. Their mother and…

Do you value your freedom? As an American citizen, do you completely understand the cost of the lifestyle you live? The freedom of speech, religion, gun ownership, and the fact that these freedoms are protected by the most powerful document in America, the Constitution, came at a grave cost. This cost was, and is paid, by the countless men and women who put themselves in harms way everyday, American military members. In this brief essay I would like to discuss three of these cost, emotional,…

and war veterans. However, more and more frequently, traumatic stress syndromes are associated with extraordinary traumas such as travel accidents (plane, car, train, etc.), workplace accidents, violent crimes, and witnessing violence or horrifying incidents. My mom is not a veteran and is diagnosed with PTSD based on early violence in her life and I’ve seen, first hand, how this trauma has affected her and the choices she makes as a result. This subject is near and dear to my heart. People…

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…

Nasiri Khoozani, E., & Hadzic, M. stated, that the idea of stress in psychology describes the organism’s adjusting physiological, cognitive and behavioral reactions to difficult, and unsafe environments. There are so many different types of stress that it is difficult to put the findings and issues together because there are so many different meanings to all of these types of stress. For example, there is work stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, school stress, family stress, etc. All of…

When a person experiences a traumatic event, their brain stores all of the memories and details into the back of their mind. During random places and random times, sometimes after years have passed by, their mind will unexpectedly send those details and memories back to the persons conscious thought. It is such a scary experience, because that recall of those memories playback in almost the exact way as if the event had occurred over again just now. It is a very disturbing situation and it can…

Influences of trauma can affect the child’s development by imposing on neural cognitive function, attachment, emotional, spiritual development and the list can go on. The first thing that must be understood is what is trauma and what does it look like to a child? Trauma is an event that occurs abruptly and harmful. According to American Psychological Association (2015), “Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape or natural disaster.” Looking at a trauma for a…