Physical trauma

Secondary trauma is something that affects all people at sometime in their life. Going through life is hard enough but having other peoples lives effect your own life can be extremely challenging for teenagers growing up. Depression and Suicidal behavior/ideation has increased over the years in America causing secondary trauma to be more prevalent in teenager’s lives. The affects secondary trauma can have on a teenager’s life could be severe and even cost the individual their life. A case study…

Vicarious trauma “negatively impacts the clinician’s sense of self which ongoing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder such as feelings of anger, grief, rage, and terror, in addition to damaging affect to the counseling relationship” (Michalopoulos & Aparicio, 2011, 646); other symptoms may include “nightmares, intrusive thoughts, disturbing imagery, sadness and anxiety” (Dunkley & Whelan, 2006, 107). Symptoms of vicarious trauma are similar to PTSD symptoms (Adams…

evaluating trauma-informed victims and helps with making assessments and intervention plans for patients. Such as a victim of Child Traumatic Stress, when children and adolescents are exposed to a violent act or traumatic situations and not having the ability to cope with the vortex of violence. The meaning of “vortex of violence” is when children experience a continuing threat that results in persisting fear; that alters the development of the child’s brain, resulting in changes in physical,…

According to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, neglect, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, are all factors that can cause abnormal development of the brain. This abnormal development can even include a variation in the size of specific parts of the brain. A traumatized person may begin to have problems arriving…

Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Therapy TARGET combines the use of recovery groups and individual treatment focusing on the client’s core values and hopes that are the basis for her ever evolving identity and relationships (Ford & Russo, 2006). TARGET provides psychoeducation about the impact of trauma and PTSD on the body’s stress system which causes the brain to have an “alarm reaction” (Frisman, Ford, Lin, Mallon, & Chang ,2008 , p.289) after a traumatic exposure. This program…

experiences and dissociation (Jacobson, Fox, Bell, Zeligman & Graham, 2015). Dissociative identity disorder is complex and within the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders dissociative disorders are located after the trauma- and stressor-related disorders so acknowledging the relationship between the two. It is far more complex than some experts seem to believe. Dissociative identity disorder may be overlooked because of the complex symptomology and mistaken…

Throughout each and every one of our lives, traumatic experiences may happen causing trauma to occur in our life for a short period of time. However, in some cases people experience chronic trauma that continues or repeats for months or even years at a time. Since C-PTSD or Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is not an official diagnosis, rather an additional sub-diagnosis for PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. C-PTSD has damaging effects on several individuals which is growing each and…

Recovering from trauma may seem impossible to the victims who are left to cope with the intense symptoms that plague them long after the traumatic incident. Although progression is slow, recovery with the right therapy is possible (Wright, 2011). Some victims may choose a therapist who is well equipped to provide therapy to those who have been through trauma. Other victims might choose a spiritual leader to help them through the process of recovery and others may not choose to get help at all.…

Trauma is used in many ways. With children and sometimes even things that horror. As is says in point 18.s, “it often refers to horrible events such as child abuse and neglect domestic violence torture and incarceration it can also refer to physical injuries broken bones or Burns that are treated in a trauma unit in a hospital”. Trauma can affect us in many ways such as intense fear helplessness and loss of control. Examples of traumatic events are child abuse and neglect sexual assault the…

also their families. War causes many tragedies. It can cause you to be emotional, physical and financial. War can cause the soldiers to become emotional. It is hard to go to war and seeing and doing all these things that you can not unsee. This causes the soldiers to become distress. Being in that situation is not great because the soldiers are suffering from something big. It not only affects them but…