Psychological evaluation

The claimant was a 54 year old female. On 01/18/2015, her husband reported that the claimant had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and shoulder and neck pain “to the point of exhaustion.” Therefore, her ability to process stress and daily issues was limited. She required help with all activities of daily living and with the house chores. She “toss, turn, moan with pain, yell when pain is to severe, awakes routinely, gets up, has nightmares, screams.” She was forgetful, had difficulty…

Sociologist Glenn Muschert defines school attacks as, “rampage attacks where victims were specifically targeted or selected for symbolic reasons” (Muschert). School shootings can be prevented with thoughtful, thorough regulations of guns and psychological evaluations of human beings. The subjects of gun control and gun regulations have surfaced in society as main ways to avoid school attacks. Strengthening…

This literature review and analysis will define the impact of stress/trauma and the positive effect of supportive interviewing for children’s eyewitness identification. The studies done by Rush et al (2014) and Hritz et al (2015) identify the impact of stress on the child, which can be reduced through the supportive guidance of well-informed adult interviewers in the identification of suspect in a line up. These findings provide empirical evidence of the supportive environment that is needed to…

friends ' use, perceived availability, perceived risk of use, parental disapproval, school commitment, and community norms against drug use (Collins, Abadi, Johnson, Shambien, & Thompson, 2012). The authors of this survey use the socio-cultural psychological perspective because the study seeks to find risk and protective factors such as friend 's use and community norms and how they relate to NMUPD in the teens. Collins et al. (2012) noticed that the teens were less likely to use non-medical…

educational status to prove the expertise in his department of study. After the several questions were asked about his education and his research, judge approved his right of education and the expertise in the forensic psychiatry. Dr. O’Shaughnessy had 2 evaluations with Ellis and he came up with two reports in 2011 and 2016…

The setting for this intervention is a clinical setting where the victim will have a medical assessment. Psychical exam will be done 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…

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…

383), traditional interventions target mainly cognitive processes, while the body and its advices are set aside. However, in the ‘biopsychosocial trap’ of PTSD, we can refute to see the intimate interconnectivity between body and mind. Beside psychological states, it is in the body that a…

adjustment disorders, and attachment disorders. Of these PTSD related disorders I will focus on CPTSD, PTSD in children and research on the causes, treatment, prognosis and evaluation of this disorder along with a perspective from a biblical worldview. For starters…

some juvenile institutions haven’t taken greater steps in screening detainees, who may have experienced some level of trauma. “Evaluation/screening recommendations for adolescents in secure treatment settings and correctional facilities require modification. A first issue is how to distinguish the adolescent detainee who is in need of an in-depth comprehensive evaluation from other youths” (Banga, Connor, Chapman & Ford, 2012, p.734). Many institutions pride themselves for screening their…