Ballistic trauma

contribute to delinquent behaviors in juveniles. These contributing factors include traumatic child abuse and neglect, inappropriate parenting behaviors, delinquent behaviors of peers, educational issues, and a history of maladjustment (Donges, 2015). Trauma can involve witnessing the attack, abuse, or endangerment of another human being, or being the victim of a threat or dangerous situation. What makes events traumatic is the feelings that these events elicit, including extreme fear,…

short-term memory and helps process fear, was found to decrease in volume (Buggey, 2007). The amygdala is what links memory to emotion, was found to increase in volume (Buggey, 2007). This goes to show that after someone has been affected by some sort of trauma; it is hard to remember the entire experience, but you now have more knowledge about how you were feeling at the time and how you continue to feel. It shows that people have trouble coping with the fear the endured. There are in fact,…

The 74th Hunger Games was the Hunger Games that changed the lives of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. The Hunger Games is a televised event in the world of Panem where one female tribute and one male tribute are sent to fight to the death for food and money. These 24 men and women have to fight and kill each other until there is only 1 person left. Once only one person is left alive, they will be considered “victor” and will be able to go home with lots of food and money. The 74th Hunger…

Creative Arts Therapy, specifically psychodrama or drama therapy has the potential to revolutionize care of patients suffering from emotional trauma including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drama therapy is a group activity developed by the psychiatrist Jacob Moreno who used “enactments of real-life situations to reveal the attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and values that underlie social interactions, thus deepening our understanding of them” (Leveton). Given the universality, and ease of…

Many practitioners still believe that a patient must reach sobriety prior to addressing trauma issues, however, when looking at the reality of the circular correlations between PTSD symptoms and substance abuse one might ask "Who would choose to give up something that eases chronic emotional and physical pain, and then engage in therapy that stimulates that pain, without recourse to relief via self-medication?" (Miller, 2002, p. 158). Therefore, Miller (2002) believes it to be ineffectual and a…

always being on guard and being startled easily relates to Macbeth being on edge about losing his place on the throne, prompting the murder of Banquo. The final symptom of feeling emotionally numb presents the fact that Macbeth went through many traumas and became overwhelmed mentally to the point of not caring about his wife dying. Macbeth, the renowned thane of Glamis, has fallen; not under the influence of his own decisions, but of his mental illness PTSD. “A dagger of the mind, a false…

I expected to see a large amount of physical trauma once I started my clinical rotations. However, at Spohn South that is merely not the case, broken bones are actually quite rare. Merriam-Webster defines trauma as “a serious injury to a person 's body”, but to me trauma is physical damage to the body that happens unexpectedly and is rather instantaneous. Being able to perform radiographic examinations on patients that have experienced physical trauma is an important part of a student’s clinical…

100 people in the country, but not every person whom suffers from PTSD developed it from experiencing a traumatic situation (Loo, PhD, 2016). The reality is that if you were a direct victim of a crime, in which you suffered physically or witnessed a trauma taking place that changed your perception of whether or not your life is in danger. Then you have a strong likely hood of experiencing some form or level of PTSD. Sufferers…

military experiences such as experiences in combat, military sexual trauma, and separations from family well as health and psychological problems outcomes after having experienced such traumatic events to better understand how service members and veterans cope with such issues. Scholarly articles such as Women at war: Understanding how women veterans cope with combat and military sexual trauma (2011), and Military sexual trauma: Violence and sexual abuse (2007), both provide information that…

What is tragedy and triumph in Alice Walker “The Color Purple”? It all starts with aggressive behavior at home. According to Healthline Dictionary, aggressive behavior is behavior that causes physical or emotional harm to others, or threatens to. It can range from verbal abuse to the destruction of a victim 's personal property. People with aggressive behavior tend to be short-tempered, thoughtless, and fidgety. Throughout my research, I talk about the certain aggressive behavior the character…