According to the CDC and Arizona State University childhood trauma has been shown to affect the victim throughout his or her entire life. Traumatic experiences often involve a threat to life or safety‚ but any situation that leaves you feeling overwhelmed and alone can be traumatic‚ even if it doesn’t involve physical harm. Childhood trauma is also a major contributor to the development of personality disorders later in life. In particular‚ borderline personality disorder‚ complex post-traumatic
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Collective trauma is trauma that happens to large groups of individuals and can be transmitted generationally and across communities. War‚ genocide‚ slavery‚ terrorism‚ and natural disasters can cause collective trauma. Some of the symptoms of collective trauma include rage‚ depression‚ denial‚ survivor guilt and internalized oppression‚ as well as physiological changes in the brain and body which can bring on chronic disease. The social frameworks in which the mass trauma of thousands of people
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attacks the spinal cord and progresses in damage over a five year period until the average person loses their life. ALS is caused by repeated head trauma that catches up to the body later on causing it to lose it’s voluntary movements such as movement in the legs‚ arms‚ and face. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy(CTE) is also caused by repeated head trauma usually from sports like football‚ soccer‚ and boxing. Athletes make up the majority of the ALS and CTE’s population because of the dangerous sports
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Developmental Delays and Trauma Mukia Myrick Coun 502 4/5/2014 Developmental delays and trauma Developmental delays is when your child does not reach their developmental milestones at the projected times. It is an ongoing major or minor delay in the course of development. Developmental delays can have many different causes. There are many types of Developmental delays in children; they include problems with language or speech‚ vision‚ movement (motor skills)‚ social
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Trauma and Recovery when a Loved One is Killed in War Introduction There are may forms of crisis‚ trauma‚ and greif. Each of these terms are often misused‚ misunderstood‚ and used interchangably. Crisis‚ trauma‚ and grief process are different from each other‚ as are the recovery processes. The trauma‚ supsiquent crisis‚ and grief that occurs when a loved one is killed in war is unique from other forms of crisis‚ trauma‚ and grief due to the unique features of the loss and circumstances involved
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In “Trauma affects brains of boys and girls in opposite ways” by Stanford University‚ the University of Stanford states that brain scans of teenagers with post-traumatic stress disorder show a structural differences between boy and girls. The part of the brain that shows the structural difference is called insula‚ the insula is the part of the brain that “detects cues from the body and processes emotions and empathy and helps to integrate feeling‚ actions‚ and several other brain functions” (Stanford
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mentally‚ socially‚ physically‚ and emotionally. Because children are going through such rapid changes it puts them in a very vulnerable place in regards to having adverse reactions to what they have experienced (DeYoung‚ et al.‚ 2011). The effects of trauma manifest themselves in forms of physical‚ emotional‚ and behavioral problems. Behavioral problems come in the forms of personality regression‚ withdrawal‚ conflicts with peers‚ and having trouble academically when previously they had not (Wong‚ et
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Treatment Paradigm of Elderly Trauma Patients N569 Darren J Hunt‚ RN College of Nursing University of New Mexico Abstract As the population of our world grows older on average‚ the question of how to care for them becomes increasingly complex. With the longer life expectancy there exists a kind of Achilles heal regarding elderly trauma patients and the response to treatment for life-threatening injuries. The older trauma patient is often times a victim of slow trauma (occurring over years of
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Had the belief that psychological or physical trauma assisted in soldiers’ vulnerability to this disorder‚ even those without a history of psychological problems‚ been widely accepted‚ the understanding of what became PTSD could have been created at a substantially earlier date. However‚ in the years
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We know what we know about history from the examining of fossils‚ DNA records‚ ‚ and technological advances overtime. Spearheaded by the Germans discovery of the skullcap and limbs‚ archaeologists gather information‚ make inferences‚ and use their imaginations to construct how things use to be. The conditions of the fossils let us know the kinds of conditions people/animals lived in. This can be problematic because for example‚ Neanderthal bones and deer bones were mixed together with some of the
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