Mrs. McIntyre job activities include with the clients are crisis inventions, resources, resolve challenges, and develop strategies. She explained to me that she’s required to find resources for her clients. E.g. a client needs assistances with providing food for his/her family. It’s her job to provide the family with the resource needed that will be beneficial to the family. For this client Mrs. McIntyre informed that she utilized the resource from Department Human Services (DHS). Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to Arkansas Department of Human Services, “the purpose of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is to help end hunger and improve nutrition and health. Low income households who receive SNAP…
These participants ranged in age from 18 to 51 years of age. The traumatic experience (i.e. car accident, horse-related accident, or work-related accident) happened between 10 months to 11 years before the research was conducted. All of the participants had experienced trauma that affected them in physical and psychological ways.…
Trauma is defined as an emotional wound or shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to the psychological development of a person or an event or situation that causes great distress and disruption. Toni Morrison wrote, "You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." The heaviness of trauma that has never been addressed can be passed on to further generations leading to its perpetuation. In the novels The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Ka and Macon Dead Jr. have inherited trauma from their parents, which leads them on expeditions to find out the causes of their parents trauma and in the process discovery of their family history and eventual self discovery.…
What is trauma you ask? The word “trauma” is used to describe experiences or situations that are emotionally painful and distressing, and that overwhelm people’s ability to cope, leaving them powerless (Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice). Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical (American Psychological Association). Longer term reactions include unpredictable emotions, flashbacks, strained relationships and even physical symptoms (American Psychological Association). In addition to trauma being a strong problem it isn't a short time thing you can get trauma for life causing it to be life threatening. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel and the excerpt All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque show how trauma…
* Emotional detachment, being in a daze, dropping out of activities, avoidance of trauma related topics, forgetting key aspect of trauma, derealization(external world is fake) and depersonalization.…
Trauma has been a part of the human experience since the birth of our species. Wild animal attacks, or possibly wildfires may have affected humans at its earliest developmental stages. Trauma has evolved to include catastrophes, and violence deemed to be outside the normal human experience. These instances may include terrorist attacks, rape, torture, earthquakes, car accidents, or plane crashes. These are just a few of the stressors which may develop into Post Traumatic Stress.…
These types of trauma were shown in The Iliad when Agamemnon betrayed Achilles by taking away Bresies, a girl he captured during the war and considered to be rightfully his. This made Achilles so angry he wanted to kill Agamemnon. Achilles suffered even more pain when his very close friend, Patroclus, was killed “My comrade is dead, lying in my hut mangled with bronze, his feet turned toward the door, and around him, our friends grieve. Nothing matters to me now” (Homer Book 19.226). Traumatic events such as watching others die, being wounded, or carrying out orders to kill others when there is no moral reason to do so are common reasons for the onset of…
The machines were beeping and there were pools of blood beside the woman. She was laying in the middle of the floor but nothing could be done. The victim was on the television. The incident wasn’t real, but the experience was undeniable. Medical dramas have become so realistic, that we often blur the line between what is real and what is fictional. On television, hospitals experience abundant traumas, rarely experience death, and doctors are glorified as heroes, whereas in reality it is not as dramatic.…
Trauma: a very difficult or unpleasant experience that causes someone to have mental or emotional problems usually for a long time. Have you ever experienced a trauma? I made it nearly nineteen years without enduring a traumatic experience. Yes, an affair leading into a divorce is considered a trauma. When the man I grew up idolizing left my family for a twenty-year-old girl, it left me mentally and emotionally unstable. As many times as my parents told me that their problems were their problems and that they shouldn’t affect me; this affected me. My life before the affair was great and carefree, however, now I’m not sure that I’ll ever get back there. It is literally as if I lived a different life before the trauma.…
Trauma is when at a young age the person is facing trauma and can affect them long term at an older age because the brain respond to fear and stress.…
In my own definition a trauma can be described as an event that upsets the individual’s normal causing psychological, physical, and emotional harm. A trauma has different meanings to each individual however, anyone can experience a trauma. Bessel A. van der Kolk an expert in the field of traumatic stress states that, “experiencing trauma is an essential part of being human; history is written in blood” (Van der Kolk, McFlarlane, &Weisaeth, 2007). Some examples of a trauma include rape, physical abuse, violence, war, and injury. A trauma does not always require the victim to be to be the one experiencing the initial threat in fact; the victim may simply be a witness or a person offering help during the traumatic event. A DSM-IV criterion…
Trauma is defined as; an extremely distressing experience that causes severe emotional shock and may have long-lasting psychological effects (Encarta Dictionary, 2013). Hurricane Katrina was one of, if not, the most devastating natural disaster to hit the United States (US); while being the costliest and the third deadliest (The Weather Channel, 2009). The physical, social, economic, and psychological/emotional stressors associated with Katrina may not follow the typical pattern of reaction from a post traumatic incident; the reaction associated with extreme stress may manifest over months or even years (American Psychological…
There are many risk that outweigh the benefits to young people playing certain sports. When thinking of things that are going on, you would wonder why would coaches not take out a player that had a head trauma that could be a small ding to the head? If all coaches and trainers take out and check athletes that have any type of hits to their head even when they said they are fine and don’t show any signs of head trauma how that could’ve decrease deaths or long term injuries from head trauma. But how things should be or could be, as why don’t all schools give a test to all athletes to compare in case of head trauma? If they give this test like they do in the video as the sports medicine doctor said “then if they have a head injury the player retested if they don’t pass they don’t play”, which is the smartest thing to do so they want have incidents like they had with what happen to Kwan Waller (CNN, 2012). As we see with Gary Dixon who suffered from a concussion and wasn’t able to play as…
2. Intense distress related to internal or external events that remind one of the traumatic occurence.…
Childhood trauma effects children worldwide in different ways in regards of their mental status, attention, and memory. There have been astounding amount of evidence in regards of the effects of childhood trauma in regards to impairment in cognition. Children who experience sexual, physical, or psychological abuse research have indicated the child will demonstrate psychiatric symptoms, neurodevelopment deficiencies and physical health consequences (Szanto et al, ). According to Hovens () childhood trauma will put a child at higher risk for depression and anxiety.…