Physical trauma

O’Hare, T., Shen, C., & Sherrer, M. V. (2015). Lifetime abuse and self-harm in people with severe mental illness: A structural equation model. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, And Policy, 7(4), 348-355. doi:10.1037/tra0000016 Article Review People with severe mental illness (SMI) generally have experience with an extreme trauma over their lifetime (Muesser et al., 1998). There is a high percentage of people in the sample of this experiment, 29% to 43%, that have post…

Essay 1: Trauma, Development and Spirituality Children are the most vulnerable, trusting, forgiving, and loving individuals on the planet. Unfortunately, because children are the most vulnerable they are usually the ones who suffer the most trauma. Even in Biblical times, children were being abused and killed as sacrifices to Molek and other idols which incited God’s warnings and anger (Leviticus 18:21; Ezekiel 16:20-21. NASB). Counselors, educators, and parents need to grasp and comprehend the…

With war there comes trauma, and not all the casualties of war experience only physical symptoms. It was during World War I that soldiers’ mental trauma became more popularly examined. We now know that traumatic events can leave someone experiencing PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Back in 1914, soldiers fighting in the war had their own version called “shell shock”. In the beginning of World War I, British soldiers began to report medical symptoms after combat such as amnesia,…

Trauma Introduction The story of the three people with the talents is intriguing. What is it about the person with the one talent that they already knew that that the boss was a difficult person and they did not even want to try to invest their one talent that was given them? They did not even have the energy to take the talent to the bank (take the time to walk to the bank, have a conversation with the banker, make an agreement, deposit the money, and return home) so that it could make…

When one thinks of trauma one may associate it with trauma centers at medical centers or from television shows in which the cause of injury or death was blunt force trauma. NBC once aired a television shows called Trauma. The show Trauma was based on a group of paramedics in San Francisco, California and the traumatic situations they enouuntered as paramedics. While Webster’s dictionary defines it as "an injury (as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent:" It is also defined as "a…

The word “trauma” can associate various meanings and emotions in a person. Many factors are at play during traumatic experiences and have a say in the reaction of the individual emotionally, physically, spiritually, and developmentally overall. Early on, a child undergoes a wealth of neural connections that are either reinforced by repetitious experiences, making the connections strong and quick, or those connections fall to waste, as the interaction is never repeated. This shows the importance…

It is disturbing to acknowledge that the American children are experiencing trauma at an alarming rate. Trauma just like the author posits has long term negative effects which affect the development of children physically, socially, psychologically and spiritually. Affected development in children leads to retardation some times and can even cause worse effects like being suicidal or homicidal. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) occurs when a child or teenager undergoes an event or experience…

life carrying his “sorrows of war”, and is broken inside because of it. Applying Trauma Theory to this novel, one can see that Kien received PTSD through his war experiences and therefore becomes addicted to his trauma. Some questions can be raised when asked about Trauma theory such as how do some characters cope with the effects of a traumatic experience, or are any of the characters “addicted” to the source of the trauma? According to a lecture…

effects of trauma and stress during and after sessions with clients. In order to grasp how stress effects a therapist, it is important to clarify some terminology debated by phycology scholars, explain the mental and physical results of occupational stress, and creatively find ways to reduce the negative…

Trauma can affect every areas of a person’s life (body, soul, and spirit). Trauma can affect a person’s faith; their will to live; their view of themselves, others, and their worldview; their sense of safety, every aspect of their emotions, physical & psychological health & well being, their relationships, etc. The list can go on and on. Trauma knows no boundaries in it affect on an individual. Several key factors can contribute to a person being more or less likely to experience PTSD.…