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When I finally had the opportunity to work and assist military veterans, I never expected that I was going to work directly with clients who were diagnosed with a substance and mental health disorder. For my first internship in Graduate School, I interned on Skid Row at the Volunteers of America Los Angeles (VOALA). This internship was very challenging and demanding for me, because I had no idea what to expect. I interned in a Harm Reduction program that assisted homeless veterans with…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Peggy Case Study 1. Describe the causes of PTSD. Explain the symptoms and categories (re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal) of PTSD. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric disorder influenced by an individual’s experience of extreme stress or trauma. It is a multifactorial disorder that inhibits the day-to-day functioning, workability and social communication of the individual diagnosed (Levin et al., 2014). Individuals diagnosed with…

Women should not be on the front lines Women make up fifteen percent of of our united states armed forces but does not give them the right to serve on our front lines. There are three main reasons women should not serve those are physical and emotional capabilities and privacy issue. If the army gave on standard than most women would not do what the men would. “...Because most women would not even qualify to be in the military if they did not have separate standards...”( eden 1) This helps…

As History shows us, war at times can be preventable and at time it is not. In the long run, war has an everlasting effect on soldiers whether it is directly or indirectly. In some cases, the horror of war is at time difficult for us to understand how men and women in the battlefield cope in times of fear. The poem "Facing it" by Yusef Komunyakaa allows us the readers to see what happen during and after the war, and what mentally goes through one 's mind in terms of how one copes with the war…

In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the reader listens in on a psychologist’s appointment with Holden Caulfield, who is telling the psychologist about events leading up to something happening before Christmas. Through the event, the reader can begin to notice how Holden is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and how he really cannot fit back into society. Unlike most cases of post-traumatic stress, Holden did not go to war or was a victim or rape; he was merely a witness to a…

How far would you go to protect your fellow Americans? How much would you be willing to sacrifice for your country? Most of us would say, we would sacrifice everything for this country, while some of us wouldn’t sacrifice anything for it. However, this is all just banter compared to what our military personnel do on a daily basis while they are overseas. They are constantly giving their lives away to protect our rights and freedoms. One man in particular has made waves in the news medias in the…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), also known as shell shock or battle fatigue, is a mental health issue that could develop after experiencing a life changing moment in a person’s life. Most researchers theorize that the people who have PTSD have either fought in war, been a victim of rape, or have endured a life changing experience. In the United States, 70 percent of adults, approximately 223.4 million people, have experience at least one traumatic moment in their lives. One…

Spouses of Persons with Spinal Cord Injury: Impact and Coping The name of the article is Spouses of Persons with Spinal Cord Injury: Impact and Coping. Spinal cord injury (SCI) can be an unforeseen occurrence that can have extreme lifelong sequences. The after effects not only impact the person with the injury, but also other members of the family. (SCI) can change the family structure and particularly what roles people play. The spouses and significant others of the injured person can undergo…

Veterans Returning Home “Sixty-one percent of men and 51% of women in the general population report having experienced at least one traumatic experience that qualifies to be considered for PTSD”(Kilic 409).Soldiers go to war to fight for America’s freedom and protect the citizens of America; however, many of their lives change while at war, and they are seeking treatment. Many soldiers get psychological help and many professionals are trying to find different ways to treat the soldiers’…

In his 2012 article for The New Yorker, “Atonement,” Dexter Filkins recounts his time spent in Iraq and explains how he helped connect Lu Lobello, a veteran suffering from severe PTSD, with the Kachadoorians, an Armenian family. While in Iraq, the Kachadoorians suffered devastating casualties and injuries at the hands of Lobello’s unit, Fox Company. Even though the United States Government determined the civilian deaths and injuries were justified, Lobello and many other members of Fox Company…