Psychological trauma

Combat trauma is something that has haunted my family since my brother and two of my uncles, tours in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. My uncles only served once due to both sustaining back injuries due to roadside bombings in the Iraq war. My brother served in both wars and it seemed as if he was deploying every other year until 2012. It was most understandable because he is Army Special Forces but he was leaving behind his wife, children, sisters and mother. My first experience with the effects…

Developmental Trauma Causes of Dissociative Identity Disorder are wide and conflicting but one popular theory that is generally accepted in the field of medicine and psychology is that DID is a result of severe trauma such as rape, abuse, etc that one has experienced in the past. Dissociation becomes a coping mechanism for people whose memories of certain incidents are so harrowing that their brains respond by temporarily removing themselves from the situation. This results in a person becoming…

They describe images of police patrolling the streets and children dodging bullets, but behind the imagery lies a community suffering from psychological wounds creating a new epidemic of traumatic stress. In Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, over 2,000 gunshot wounds are treated each year and 43% of patients screened displayed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD on the Rise). That is…

clinicians, began to see PTSD more from the trauma aspect rather than the weakness of the victim. Although it was controversial at…

It is important to note that the definition of evacuee is “a person evacuated from a place of danger to somewhere safe. There is no stipulation as to whether you must be evacuated prior to or after the disaster in order to be considered an evacuee. There is a large portion of evacuees who lacked resources to leave New Orleans prior to the storm. Due to this, several people were not evacuated until days after the storm hit. This initiates not only displacement stressors, but also immediate…

Throughout each and every one of our lives, traumatic experiences may happen causing trauma to occur in our life for a short period of time. However, in some cases people experience chronic trauma that continues or repeats for months or even years at a time. Since C-PTSD or Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is not an official diagnosis, rather an additional sub-diagnosis for PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. C-PTSD has damaging effects on several individuals which is growing each and…

in turn translated to the entire Indigenous community. This resulted in her coining the medical term Historical Trauma. Historical Trauma is defined as, “The cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over one’s lifetime and from generation to generation following loss of lives, land and vital aspects of culture” . Oftentimes, this term is lumped in together with personal traumas such as; PTSD, emotional abuse, or even physical abuse, but there are three distinct differences between…

Various risk factors impact the ways in which a child, family, and community processes and understand their exposure to trauma. The presence of secondary adversities is known as risk factors that contribute to the negative outcomes on the individual’s bio-psycho-social spiritual system. Risk Factors can be defined as, “a characteristic at the biological, psychological, family, community, or cultural level that precedes and is associated with a higher likelihood of problem outcomes.”…

result of a struggle with trauma” and its relationship to posttraumatic stress disorder through an overview of the literature, including assessment measures and the reaction that children and adolescents have to trauma and disaster. Research on posttraumatic growth has typically been centered on adults but recently has extended to children and adolescents. Keywords: Adolescents, children, posttraumatic growth, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), resilience, trauma Introduction…

are usually more likely to have mental disorders than men in war situations. Another group of the society that is extremely affected by the war are children, the disabled, and the elderly. The rate of occurrence is directly related to the degree of trauma, and the emotional and physical support. There are certain religious and cultural strategies to cope with these situation in developing countries. 2005 marks a significant occasion that helps people understand the relation between mental…