Case Study over Ptsd

Introduction The main goal for our lesson plan was to educate the class on the treatment of war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental or psychological illnesses. We focused on how it was then to how it is now. As we did our research we found that all other mental or psychological illnesses that war veterans could possibly have all fall under the post-traumatic stress disorder category. Not a lot of people even know what post-traumatic stress disorder is, and those that do know what it is don’t think it is as severe as it really is. We did our case study a little different than previous groups. Instead of showing video clips at the end of the presentations we actually opened up with one. This one was an interview that was conducted by Emory University with Barbara Rothbaum, PhD, an expert in the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); she describes its symptoms and the various treatments currently available. She talks about how PTSD commonly affects war Veterans, but may also affect those who 've experienced other traumatic events such as accidents, natural or man-made disasters, and abuse. Rothbaum, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, has spent more than two decades studying PTSD prevention and treatment.The video was basically what we were going to be talking about in a nutshell. After the video we went into detail about what post-traumatic stress disorder is. It is actually an anxiety disorder. A person can get it even if you weren’t the one that was harmed, just by seeing someone else harmed can actually be the cause of it as well. We then went on to talk about PTSD and the military and gave some statistics on how many veterans from each war have been diagnosed with it. Next we talked about how it actually develops. Strong emotions caused by the even create changed in the brain that may result in PTSD. How likely you are to develop PTSD depends many

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