Physical trauma

unfortunately experience some kind of trauma while attending school. One of the most prevalent experiences of trauma among students is sexual harassment that occurs at school. The National Traumatic Child Stress Network (NCTSN) defines sexual harassment as sexual abuse not involving contact which includes acts such as “genital exposure (‘flashing’), verbal pressure for sex, and sexual exploitation for purposes of prostitution or pornography.” Due to the nature of this kind of trauma, schools…

Emotional Trauma is Psychological, or emotional trauma, is damage or injury to the psyche after living through an extremely frightening or distressing event and may result in challenges in functioning or coping normally after the event. Its can happen to anyone of any sort. I believe that the up most first people all over the world that would come to mind who suffer from this trauma are military personnel. I say this because we have an active force of over 1,500,000 infantry wise. They…

number of psychological and physical reactions. Many factors will contribute to how an individual will respond in the face of a traumatic incident such as their social networks, prior trauma, personality, upbringing, resiliency as well as many other variables. Every person is unique therefore how they respond to a trauma will be different than how another person will respond. (Van der Kolk, McFarland & Weisaeth, 2007). The reactions of the individual immediately after a trauma can be…

and a sexual abuse medical evaluation will also be administered for the laboratory tests. Also, the victim will be doing assessments which include obtaining background history and determining the needs of the victim. This may include assessing the physical, emotional, and behavioral consequences of sexual abuse. By doing the assessment, it will help correlate the care for the child and show a better understanding of the child. Also while the victim 's caregiver will have support and resources…

percent of adults report having suffered through some sort of childhood trauma in their past (“Statistics”). A percentage of these people are child soldiers; children under the age of eighteen who are subjected to war. A quarter of all soldiers in the Sierra Leone civil war were under the age of eighteen (Shah “Sierra Leone”), the main character of A Long Way Gone being one of them. Another example of those who have suffered from trauma would be the countless other victims of the holocaust. In…

Introduction Terminology Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) “encompasses the negative physical, emotional, and cognitive reassocations that can occur in response to indirect exposure to trauma, such as working with trauma survivors” (Kulkarni, Bell, Hartman, & Herman-Smith, 2013, 115). It is often used as an umbrella term to include: burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma (VT) and traumatic countertransference, (Salston & Figley, 2003). STS can include numbing symptoms, intrusive symptoms,…

At any given moment anybody can be faced with trauma and nobody is immune to it. The world is filled with souls that are suffering because their world was turned upside down in one moment of trauma. Upon impact of the trauma, the victim experiences a stress reaction that triggers internal organs to release more hormones than necessary, causing the victim to experience a heightened sense of fear. Once this cycle it set in motion, physical symptoms notably appear such as dissociation, arousal and…

Trauma mastery according to me is a factor for dealing with trauma. It has been helpful in dealing with trauma in the most effective way possible. There is this experience that I experienced recently that left me traumatized. I was involved in a car accident together with a friend of mine where I lost her after she succumbed to the injury on the way to the hospital. To enable fast emotional healing, I had to master the trauma and come up with a way to overcome them. I have been practising…

attention to the correlation between psychological trauma and later physiological health. Emphasis will be placed upon the continued development and research into alternative and holistic therapies that may help address the pervasive and complex long-term effects that childhood trauma has upon an individual’s later life; which is perhaps not adequately addressed by traditional psychodynamic therapies. Most frequently cited treatments for trauma typically utilise talking therapies which…

Trauma can be described as experiences or situations that cause physical, emotional or mental pain, that one cannot control. For children and adolescents, the most common trauma is interpersonal trauma which affects their biological, cognitive, psychological and social developments. (D’Andrea, Ford, Stolbach, Spinazzola, & Van der Kolk, 2012). When someone experiences trauma they experience negative results throughout their body, there is an increased level of cortisol and catecholamine that…