Johannes Oster 10/28/12 Community Health I Essay I Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the United States: Predictors‚ Diagnosis‚ and Treatment Posttraumatic Stress Disorder‚ or PTSD‚ is an anxiety disorder that occurs in individuals exposed to traumatic events. Traumatic events are defined as ones involving death‚ serious injury‚ or the threat of death1. These include‚ but are not limited to‚ combat experiences‚ sexual and physical assault‚ accidents‚ and natural disasters2. In this paper‚ I will
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)‚ is a mental health condition recognized by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). NAMI distinguished PTSD as leaving “people with ongoing psychological symptoms because they are not integrated into the consciousness” (NAMI). Thus‚ a person would be left in a continued state of duress and would be focused solely on escaping that traumatic situation. This state manifests itself in a variety of symptoms that generally fit into four categories: Intrusive
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probably doesn’t know about the problems these soldiers face upon their return home. The main problem for returning soldiers is what we now call post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. According to the American Psychiatric Association‚ post-traumatic stress disorder refers to an anxiety disorder that some people get after witnessing or experiencing a traumatic event. To give further detail of the disorder the APA also classifies an anxiety disorder as a mental illness in which the sufferer feels an
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(Curwen.B‚ 2000). Amy’s problems started with a ‘near-miss’ car accident which caused Amy to suffer Post traumatic stress disorder. Cognitive behavioural therapy is used to post traumatic stress disorder and its aim is to educate the client to think rationally about her life (Zayfert‚ C.2006). Post traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder which develops when a person is exposed to a traumatic experience‚ which would be classed as life threatening to others and themselves (Horner et al‚ 2002)
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Treating our heroes Linda A. Smith Liberty University Abstract Combat veterans and active duty service members who have suffered mild to severe traumatic brain injury or head trauma are at a higher risk for the development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder post-deployment. Research has revealed that treating the soldier immediately after the injury with pharmacotherapeutic agents significantly reduces the risk that the soldier will develop post-traumatic
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Matthew Wolfe Marywood University Mark A. Shaffer‚ MSW‚ LCSW Social Work Perspectives on Psychopathology June 29‚ 2013 Post-traumatic stress disorder: the social worker perspective Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that occurs following a traumatic event and is characterized by re-experiencing the event‚ avoidance of key details and features of the event as well as a state of hyper-vigilance and arousal
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Literature: An Analysis of The Odyssey The Odyssey is one of the most well known stories about war and its effects on the survivors. Homer goes out of his way to share the names and families of fallen soldiers for many reasons. The deaths in The Odyssey are exceptionally bloody and gore-filled‚ which allows the reader to vividly see the scenes depicted and understand the true horror that violence holds. The war scenes are particularly gruesome and filled with death
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Cognitive Processing Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Capella University Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effectiveness of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) in treating rape victims suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a mental disorder that affects individuals emotionally‚ behaviorally‚ and psychologically. PTSD estimated to affect about 7% of Americans in a lifetime. The content of this paper is to analyze the
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Unit 2 Post Traumatic Stress Justin Edwards Psychology unit 2 SJVC online Megan McLaughlin 1/7/2017 Introduction: 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
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Military Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious mental health disorder that must be better understood by the military. PTSD‚ battle fatigue‚ shell shock‚ and several other phrases describe a condition that has been observed in war veterans for centuries. In Achilles in Vietnam‚ Jonathan Shay studied veterans of the Vietnam War with PTSD and explained the similarities between these veterans and Achilles in the book The Iliad. PTSD is triggered by
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