Physical trauma

Healing trauma through art (Kuban, 2015) is an article that reviews the use of art therapy as a method to explore the meanings of traumatic experiences of children and as form of healing. The article introduces art therapy by discussing the historical relationship between art and well-being. Past physiologists and therapists have used art as a means of exploring trauma of children, allowing children to address and deal with emotional distress, and building rapport and empathy with patients…

TIC policy is relevant for public health policy when addressing social problems related to trauma, such as violence, homelessness, addiction and chronic disease. (Bowen & Murshid, 2016). TIC requires awareness of trauma and its effects but ultimately requires awareness of the interplay of trauma with interactions with services and ideally, a service wide commitment is made to reducing iatrogenic harm and re-traumatization occurring in the care…

worried. Our streets, seemingly have turned to war zones and playgrounds becoming battlefields. Leaving our children battle fatigued and lost. Those would be the lucky ones. For many, too many are mortally wounded and many more are left with the physical and often silent mental wounds of this unnamed and unrecognized war. While research shows that the likelihood of children exposed to violence are higher in an inner-city setting than that of a suburban one, we are beginning to recognize the…

to Family Life: The Impact of the War Experience on Veterans in “Stones” and “The Shannon” Canada has a long history of fighting in many wars and has had many distinguished war veterans. However, many of these war veterans were affected by post-war trauma. Timothy Findley in his short story “Stones” explores the impact of the Second World War on the Max family, when David Max, the father returns back from his military service in 1943. A similar short story by David Adams Richards “The Shannon,”…

experiences like trauma and the onset of phobias through a series of processes. Magee focuses on twelve experiences that can be a factor toward phobia onsets. This includes life-threatening accidents, death of parents, natural disasters like…

There has not been an exact cause of mental and behavioral disorders but people are finding that they appear because of biological, psychological and environmental factors. (Causes of Mental Illness, 2015). Some of these factors can’t be help but some can. Find the root of a mental disorder/illness can help the treatment of it. Biological factors are the factor that are mainly involved with: Genetics, Infection, brain defects, injury, prenatal damage and/or substance abuse. When it comes to…

Sexual abuse is unwanted or inappropriate sexual contact, either verbal or physical, between two or more people that is intended as an act of control, power, rage, violence, and intimidation with sex as a weapon. Sexual abuse can range from inappropriate seductive behavior and sexual touching to sexual intercourse. Sexual abuse includes rape, gang rape, date rape, partner or spouse rape, and incest. In the United States alone, a woman is raped every six minutes, in three women and one in six…

This framework is based on what the research on trauma intervention with children and particularly on trauma-informed care (TIC). However, based on personal understanding of trauma intervention in child population, the original TIC approach introduced by SAMHSA is modified. I. Trauma and Children While positive stressful experience contribute to children’s health since these mild stress events provides children opportunities to deal with obstacles by managing stress, control emotions and…

child abuse and neglect is looked at in more ways than behavioral, personality and functioning problems. The premise is less cognitive and more physical. This article explains findings of the brain being physically altered by these traumatic childhood events. When helping those personality disorders, the other thought that perhaps that their early traumas led to the developing brains to alter their growth, particularly the hippocampus and the amygdala. Using electroencephalograms (EEGs) to…

experience is defined as the initial act that involves a threats or acts of injury, physical and psychological harm that may entice grave fear, helplessness, or horror in an individual. There are a wide variety of psychological issues that a victim may endure which stems from them being trafficked for an extensive period of time. Trafficked victims may suffer from an array of mental health issues stemming from brutal physical and emotional mistreatment by their trafficker or by other…