Theories Of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
13) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental health condition that is triggered when someone experiences a traumatic event. Approximately 9% of women can experience a form of PTSD called postpartum PTSD following the birth of their child caused by a real or perceived trauma during or after delivery. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and sleep problems, feeling detached and numb, severe anxiety and self-isolation. The person can have uncontrollable thoughts about the event, become aggressive, struggle to feel affectionate and even lose interest in doing things that they used to enjoy and feel passionate about. Theorists speculate that when a person faces overwhelming trauma, their mind can’t process feelings in a normal way and these
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Jean Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory looks at the development of a child’s thoughts and how these thoughts affect how they interact and understand the world around them, giving us a new way of thinking about child development. His theory also focused on understanding the nature of intelligence. Piaget offered a theory of cognitive development for the child’s mental development, suggesting that children go through four stages, the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage and the formal operational stage. The sensorimotor stage is the earliest stage and is from birth to two years old. During this stage, infants use basic actions such as sucking, looking around and listening to teach them about their environment. They learn that their actions can cause things to happen and they gain their knowledge through sensory experiences and object manipulation. This stage covers a large amount of growth in a short time frame and is full of new discoveries such as crawling, walking and communicating with people they interact with. Piaget believed that an important part of this stage was object permanence. Object permanence is where a child learns that objects exist, even when they can’t see them and once they understand that objects are separate things, they can start attaching names and words to them. The preoperational stage is from two years old to seven years old and follows on from the language development of the previous stage. Children keep improving their language and thinking skills using words and pictures but still see things in a set way and struggle to see things from other perspectives than their own. The concrete operational stage is from seven to 11 years old and during this stage,
Jean Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory looks at the development of a child’s thoughts and how these thoughts affect how they interact and understand the world around them, giving us a new way of thinking about child development. His theory also focused on understanding the nature of intelligence. Piaget offered a theory of cognitive development for the child’s mental development, suggesting that children go through four stages, the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage and the formal operational stage. The sensorimotor stage is the earliest stage and is from birth to two years old. During this stage, infants use basic actions such as sucking, looking around and listening to teach them about their environment. They learn that their actions can cause things to happen and they gain their knowledge through sensory experiences and object manipulation. This stage covers a large amount of growth in a short time frame and is full of new discoveries such as crawling, walking and communicating with people they interact with. Piaget believed that an important part of this stage was object permanence. Object permanence is where a child learns that objects exist, even when they can’t see them and once they understand that objects are separate things, they can start attaching names and words to them. The preoperational stage is from two years old to seven years old and follows on from the language development of the previous stage. Children keep improving their language and thinking skills using words and pictures but still see things in a set way and struggle to see things from other perspectives than their own. The concrete operational stage is from seven to 11 years old and during this stage,