stress-related and somatoform disorders

Posttraumatic stress disorder, referred to as PTSD, characterizes the incapability to effectively manage overwhelming stress triggered by an or multiple periods of trauma. The manifestation of such a disorder has introduced the opportunity to stretch a single traumatic event over the duration of a lifetime. Traumatic events, which are formally understood as events that contain or threaten detrimental injury, work in conjunction with the experience of at least one or a combination of intense fear…

PTSD and Poverty: Trauma as a staple of inner-city life Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was first brought to the forefront through its effects on Vietnam War veterans. In 1980, the disorder was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) (Friedman), the standard classification of mental illnesses used by medical professionals in the US (“DSM”). Its classification was groundbreaking because it recognized an external cause to the unusual behaviors many people…

from combat deployment I choose to describe “depression”. Kanel (2014) states that “symptoms such as sleep problems, feelings of guilt, worthlessness, hopelessness, regret, loss of energy and interest in life, and concentration deficits, appetite disorder, psychomotor retardation or agitation, and suicidal thoughts” (p. 179), all may be associated with depression. If I, as a crisis worker, was not knowledgeable of the symptoms of depression, they could appear as a personality defect or maybe…

any given moment anybody can be faced with trauma and nobody is immune to it. The world is filled with souls that are suffering because their world was turned upside down in one moment of trauma. Upon impact of the trauma, the victim experiences a stress reaction that triggers internal organs to release more hormones than necessary, causing the victim to experience a heightened sense of fear. Once this cycle it set in motion, physical symptoms notably appear such as dissociation, arousal and…

Case Study 1: Jocelyn Rowley Diagnosis 309.81, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with dissociative symptoms. Relevant V Codes V15.41 - Personal history (past history) of sexual abuse in childhood; V61.10 - Relationship distress with spouse or intimate partner; V71.02 – Child or adolescent antisocial behavior Rationale: Jocelyn was diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with dissociative symptoms. After being raped by her English TA, Jocelyn immediately started exhibiting signs of PTSD…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, commonly known as PTSD, is a mental illness triggered by one or more terrifying events that happened in the past, either being experienced or witnessed. The events include severe injury, extreme violence, sexual assault, or warfare, etc. The symptoms of such mental disorder caused by the past traumas include disturbing flashbacks, severe anxiety, and hyperarousal, which results in a constant condition of being easily startled and feeling tense for a long period of…

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was added to the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders back in 1980, but the disease existed way before that with the start of the Vietnam War. It is defined as a traumatic event that was conceptualized as a catastrophic stressor that was outside the range of usual human experience. The outline of the original PTSD diagnosis had in mind events such as war, torture, rape, atomic bombings,…

are very detrimental and can affect the armed service veterans physically, spiritual, psychologically, emotionally and financially through out the duration of the life course.“The analysis includes several control and mediator variables that are related to later-life health. The first set of control variables are retrospectively reported early-life characteristics that occurred prior to military service. These measures are indicators of relative (dis)advantage: race/ethnicity, mother’s education,…

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is psychological disorder that “affects more than 7 million Americans” (Poole, 11). While we know that traumatic experiences can cause PTSD, it has only recently been studied and documented in detail. To develop a better understanding of PTSD this paper will examine the symptoms of PTSD, the history of PTSD, and the current treatments for PTSD. The symptoms of PTSD are very similar patient to patient. Most people have flashbacks or nightmares and become…

us tools to navigate a client through the process gaining a positive result. Got me to thinking about the clients who are in the military coming for counseling. King et al. (2013) survey of group work with combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). When counseling individuals in the military…