Psychological resilience

First of all, it is important to know and understand what crisis is before any management of it can be done. “A crisis is an unexpected event that calls for the mobilization of additional resources beyond those necessary for everyday life. When people encounter unexpected challenges and traumas, they may have difficulty mobilizing their resources to meet these challenges.” (NVAA Work Group, p. 7-4). Basically, when an individual is faced with a trauma and they cannot recover from it themselves…

Abuse comes in many forms, but one of the most concerning and violent of abuses is domestic and intimate partner violence (DV/IPV). Jennifer R. Farmer’s Huffington Post article “Crystal Hamilton, Black Women and Domestic Violence,” is an article written to give a voice to an issue that many choose to keep quiet. Domestic violence affects up to 1.3 million individuals a year nationally (Farmer) but is one of the most scarcely reported; for women of color, low economic standing and sex trade work,…

Trauma can be a very heavy word to place your head around. It is a word that creates a lot of pressure on everyone that hears it. Trauma reminds us of our problems we had to deal with the past. Loss, death, break ups and hardships of life, all of those things are buried deep inside our heads and constantly pecker on the walls of it, trying to get out and change our worldview. Everything that happens to people, leaves a mark that can stay there forever. Many can say, that the most horrible part…

How would you like it if your child was being bullied? Many studies have proven that bullying has been a problem nationwide. Based on the article “Bullying and Teasing of Youth with Disabilities: Creating Positive School Environments for Effective Inclusion” presented that “Harassment of youth with disabilities in particular has been steadily increasing,”(Hoover 1). As a result, a child who is born with a disability, it is more likely for them to be bullied than those who don 't have a…

abuser is thinking of ways to hurt the victim, or could be built up rage to attack. When the woman knows what is going to happen, she can prepare herself, but when he hides his emotions he can strike at any time. In this review I will go over the psychological terminology to explain the way people think when they are being abused. Invisible chains the self-help book has…

Child abuse is everyone’s business. Child abuse is mistreatment of children. Child abuse can be in various forms such as sexual, physical, neglect, emotional, mental, and verbal. Child abuse often occurs because adults blame all of their stress on the children, or from substance abusement, being a single parent/stepparent. There are ways to prevent child abuse. Sexual abuse is the involuntary of developing immature children or adolescents in sexual activities. It can be in a form of rape,…

“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.” (Shannon L. Alder.) The nature of violence plays a key role in Jesmyn Wards “Salvage the Bones.” Whether if it was China “sacrificing” one of her puppies, the big brawl during Randall’s basketball game, or when the father pushed Esch into the water during the hurricane. Just like any other feeling that human beings have, there are some things that we often question…

who have been exposed to domestic abuse can suffer from long-term psychological disorders affecting developmental, cognitive, and social skills. The family structure…

Psychological Abuse, is also known as psychological violence, emotional abuse or mental abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or posttraumatic stress disorder. In a study of 1,000 women 15 years of age or older, 36% had experienced emotional abuse while growing up; 43% had experienced some form of abuse as children or adolescents. In this paper I will be…

Twenty percent of U.S. students in grades 9-12 reportedly have experienced bullying or are feeling bullied, while twenty-eight percent of students in grades 6-12 report the same. Experts agree that most incidences of bullying occur during middle school (Revealed). When I was in middle school, I was constantly being made fun of for my height and how big my feet were. Later in high school the bullying worsened. Many of the friends I had in middle school started to exclude me. Soon after they began…