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person centered therapy have a lower dropout rate then those involved in cognitive behavior therapies. Critical thinking Questions 1. The text (Friedman, 2015) states that pharmacological treatments work best when patients are accepting, when other conditions are present and when cognitive behavior therapy is unavailable. With this state it makes me question if they exhausted all other potential therapy choices before entering pharmacological treatments. 2. I further question pharmacological…

The United States Armed Forces and veterans have sacrificed their entire lives to protect those of civilians, and because of that they deserve to be treated with dignity, respect, and care. Unfortunately, many veterans never fully recover from their military careers, and are left either partially or completely disabled due to physical and/or mental injury. This leaves them unable to work and provide for themselves and their families. An even smaller portion of these veterans were left disabled…

People in the military go through some traumatising situations during their service. They see some bad events and are put in some bad positions. From experiencing these traumatic things it is understandable that veterans may suffer from mental illnesses like, PTSD, depression, anxiety and physical disabilities as an effect of the war. One of the most common and worse mental illnesses veterans suffer from is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a disorder characterized by failure to…

PTSD has affected millions of people for years now. About 8 million adults suffer with PTSD during a given year (PTSD: National Center for PTSD). Not only does the individual have to live with it, but so do those who love them. In the short story “The Red Convertible” written by Louise Erdrich, two brothers are living through the time of the Vietnam War, and their struggle with PTSD. The emotional rollercoaster Erdrich takes us on, through the time before Henry leaves, to the time he comes back,…

With so much wrong in America today, I believe that it can only get better. Because many veterans struggle when they return from war, they will be provided with a variety of programs to help them deal with life after war. Shootings and other gun accidents will go down immensely, especially school shootings. People will not be living on the streets and go to bed hungry. Cars will be made cheaper and more efficient. I foresee changes like these in America’s future. When soldiers come back to…

Being in the army can be very life changing. A lot is going on and some of those things can really affect how a person can think or react to different situations. A normal person can be in a situation where danger is coming their way and feel scared, which is what people usually do, but with post-traumatic stress disorder it is as if you feel danger when a person who doesn’t have this disorder wouldn’t feel danger. For example, if a person with ptsd or post-traumatic stress disorder was to hear…

The next week, I was so eager to learn something new. The psychiatrist announced that it was the military week. This implies that he would spend long hours interacting with them because they were new clients. He needed to get good and solid information about every one of them. Most of the clients who worked in the military or who fought in the military, suffered from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD). The professor in the abnormal psychology textbook, noted that the diagnostic criteria for…

solution to ending homelessness in the United States. Being a large group, veterans take away resources from others which are homeless, who do not have the same support systems in place, through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA has been charged with assisting our nation’s veterans; however…

Through the years when veterans return home they are either treated as heros or outcasts. These men and women often have trouble finding jobs and some even need some form of treatment. With the lack of veteran programs most of these people do not get the proper aid they need when they return. A large number of them have trouble finding jobs to pay for the medical attention they desperately need. Veterans are discriminated against by the lack of programs to support them. Currently there are very…

Mental Illness Mental illnesses are a significant result of war. War veterans are exposed to dangerous environments which, in return, increase the likelihood of of the soldiers experiencing mental illnesses. These mental illnesses may affect the soldier's day to day life due to the symptoms of the mental illness they are suffering with. One mental illness that resulted from war was the Gulf war syndrome. This syndrome affected both British and U.S. soldiers who fought in the Persian gulf…