Post-realism

The number of service members who are in need of mental health care continue to rise (Steenkampa, et al., 2011, p. 98). A very common mental illness that is prevalent among service members is post-traumatic stress disorder. According to epidemiologic studies significant psychological difficulties related to their deployment affect about 10 to 18 percent of combat troops (Steenkampa, et al., 2011, p. 98). According to this week’s lecture, a traumatic event “stays with you,” and involves all of…

1.Provide a script of a Clinical Psychologist's description to their patient with a trauma disorder (Acute or Post) in terms of the neuroscience features---what changes in their brain functioning may be occurring as a function of the condition. What you are experiencing is called PTSD. When someone suffers a trauma, any type of trauma, the brain and body react. A trauma-related neuropathway is created that can be repeatedly reactivated, for some these changes pass in a few weeks, the disruption…

According to the research, there are two main causes which develop this phobia and the examples are traumatic experience and personal traits. Most of the patients are fear of thunder because they have experienced it or they seen their beloved person get struck by thunder or lightning. Some of them already have a strong fear contained in them, therefore, any situation which related to thunder will let them feel fear (Maharjan, 2015). People who with the fear of thunder which is astraphobia will…

1. Does the United States Air Force (USAF) current physical fitness program produce adequately physically fit airmen? No, the present USAF physical fitness standard does not take into consideration the mission of the USAF, “to fly, fight, and win… in air, space, and cyberspace.1” The current physical fitness standard focuses on airmen being able to lift a portion of their own body weight and attempts to identify airmen that appear to be overweight in uniform. The USAF should focus on how to…

The first session included the "Art Therapy Projective Imagery Assessment and an interview with semi structured interview questions."(Campbell, 2016) The second session had "psychoeducational material about PTSD, goal setting and safety…"(Campbell, 2016) and they also discussed triggers and symptoms. The third session the veterans were asked to create 6 images and narrate them back in the third person. The images were as follows, the first image was a time they felt safe and peaceful before the…

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND MASSAGE What it is, who is effected by it, and how alternative therapy like massage therapy can help Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), defined by Merriam-Webster.com, is a psychological reaction that occurs after experiencing a highly stressing event outside the range of normal human experience and that is usually characterized by depression, anxiety, flashbacks, recurrent nightmares, and avoidance of reminders of the event. It is an anxiety disorder…

precipitates a range of physio-pathological as well as psycho-emotional outcomes. Post-traumatic stress disorder results from witnessing or experiencing life-threatening or traumatic events. This disorder has intense psychological effects, which can be life-threatening and can impair a person's life. In the light of current emerging issues such as terrorism and extended combats, an acute rise in the number of patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be expected in the…

adults, children respond to traumatic occurrences that cause them to respond with the same symptoms experienced by the Vietnam soldiers. Occurrences such as sexual abuse, violence and war contribute to the cause of the psychological complications (“Post-traumatic stress…”). Children not only develop PTSD from personal experiences of distress, but some children from military families who are exposed to the behavior of a parent who returned from deployment with the illness…

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, headaches,…

As millions of people completed the annual U.S. census during the post-World War II ‘good life’, there was a common theme amongst suburban white women, “occupation: Housewife”. Following the World War II, the U.S. experienced times of economic prosperity as the middle-class was as strong as it had ever been, home ownership was at an all-time high, and more purchasing power allowed for a mass consumption society. However, there was one major underlying problem, one that was coined in Betty…