1. TRAUMA‚ SEXUAL TRAUMA & COUNSELLING 1.1 DEFINING STRESS‚ CRISES & TRAUMA Stress • A strain we feel at different times/in different situations • Set of external forces impinging on the person (unemployment‚ crime‚ etc) • Set of psychological & physiological reactions (racing heart‚ sweating palms etc) • Can be opportunity for growth - The spark that pushes us into action • The extent to which an individual experiences stress depends on the event‚ together with the individual’s personality
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Reflection #1 This class is very important and dear to me because I know how trauma can impact a person’s life. I was first introduced to the topic about dissociation during one of my counseling sessions with my therapist. He was explaining how in the animal life‚ some animals who are eaten my carnivores dissociate from their bodies when attacked by predators. These animals escape from their bodies so that they will not feel the pain of being eaten. My therapist was giving me examples
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Multicultural Awareness Multicultural Awareness The purpose of this paper is to analyze oneself by taking the Multicultural-Self Assessment and learn about the “Other” of one self. This will help one to associate with clients from different cultures. Multicultural Self-Assessment Summary The results of the Multicultural Self-Assessment were not surprising to me. Thirteen of the answers were five (5)‚ which is not surprising to me because I was taught by my family and I to accept
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research Physical activity for cancer survivors: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials Daniel Y T Fong‚1 Judy W C Ho‚2 Bryant P H Hui‚3 Antoinette M Lee‚4 Duncan J Macfarlane‚5 Sharron S K Leung‚1 Ester Cerin‚5 Wynnie Y Y Chan‚6 Ivy P F Leung‚7 Sharon H S Lam‚8 Aliki J Taylor‚9 Kar-keung Cheng9 1 School of Nursing‚ Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine‚ University of Hong Kong‚ Hong Kong‚ China 2 Division of Colorectal Surgery‚ Department of Surgery‚ Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
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The Holocaust’s Effect on Child Survivors of Concentration Camps and Following Generations Dominique Rudisel Psych 2 Gavilan College A brief history of the Holocaust: "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin‚ "Holos" meaning "whole" and "kaustos" meaning "burned". The Holocaust was the systematic‚ bureaucratic‚ state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million European Jews‚ but an estimated 1 million people as a direct result‚ by the Nazi regime and its collaborators
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GEMMA: What coping mechanisms do you find to be the most beneficial for child abuse survivors? RUBY: Well‚ many survivors experience depression and trauma‚ and dissociation is also very common. So throughout our lives‚ we develop avoidant coping‚ which may be effective for a while‚ but it is not a sustainable way to cope with one’s feelings. So‚ I think the most‚ um‚ the most…. beneficial coping mechanism is by far approach coping. Approach coping is a way of facing your emotions with supportive
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evaluate 8 research articles relevant to my topic of “Do gender‚ culture‚ and age groups influence the way society acts as a described by the bystander effect”? Bystander Intervention in a Crime: The Effect of a Mass-media Campaign Leonard Bickman‚ 1975 Two studies were performed in order to investigate bystander intervention during a staged shop-lifting in a campus bookstore. The first study began with an advertisement against shop-lifting in the campus newspaper that outlined what students should
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Although many activities and sports may be enjoyable‚ some may cause long-term consequences specifically to the brain. There have been several reports of brain trauma and head injuries due to certain sports‚ such as football. Research shows many individuals who have experienced the dangers of brain damage because of physical infliction during a game of football. The movie Concussion shows a forensic pathologist who discovers chronic traumatic encephalopathy‚ or CTE‚ while performing an autopsy on
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For my career I choose Trauma nurse . I’ve always know that I wanted to pursue my career in the medical field I just wasn’t sure what I wanted to major in. I started watching this TV show called Grey’s Anatomy and that’s when I realized that I wanted to be a Trauma nurse . It is exciting‚ challenging‚ and extremely rewarding and that is why I choose to become a Trauma nurse . You get these traumas that come in and you adrenalin just starts pumping and that’s in my opinion the best feeling in
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Historical Trauma is the collective emotional and psychological injury both over the life span and across generations‚ resulting from a cataclysmic history of genocide. Historical Unresolved Grief is grief resulting from the historical trauma of genocide‚ grief that has not been expressed‚ acknowledged and resolved. Like trauma‚ it can span across generations. Many cultures have experienced massive losses of lives‚ land‚ and culture from different people resulting in a long legacy of chronic trauma and
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