Psychosocial Aspects of Midwifery Care MW2222 Practicing midwives in our healthcare system today need to have an understanding of political and social factors of their practice in order to provide optimum service for the women and families in their care. The psychosocial needs of the individual should be considered‚ and midwives should contemplate external factors that may affect the woman’s health‚ pregnancy‚ outcome and their home lives. This is why the whole picture of a woman’s life should
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psychological theory to do so. After researchers did the studies they found different patterns of psychosocial balance which were found for each identity style with largely consistent findings. Included in this article are the research findings from empirical studies. It seemed for many individuals identity development is a lifelong process that ranges well past the years of adolescence. Summary of the Theory The person identified with this theory is Erik Erikson. Erikson’s psychosocial theory is composed
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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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For this report‚ we will discuss Erikson’s theory as it relates to 2 specific stages of his theory of psychosocial development and 2 specific examples of characters at these stages. The writer has chosen 2 characters which in her opinion have a lot of complex characteristics that help illustrate interesting concepts and ideas related to Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development. This information can be used accordingly in advertising campaigns targeted at the demographic in the mentioned stages
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Adolescence is the transition from childhood to adulthood‚ which lasts from about age eleven until nineteen or twenty. During adolescence‚ changes occur within the physical‚ cognitive‚ psychosocial and social areas. I interviewed my two roommates on if they considered their adolescence “normal”. My first roommate‚ Dale‚ stated that through adolescence her physical and cognitive maturity was considered normal. However‚ her psychological‚ and social areas of development differ from the norm due to
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Trauma is a broad term used to define and describe the emotional responses of an extremely stressful occurrence. The effects of trauma are wide-range in length and severity depending on the circumstances of the incident and the individual it affects. Trauma is influential and affects more than just the individual. The consequences of experiencing trauma are significant in its impairment and change must be done today to help individuals cope with the effects of trauma. That is not to say that people
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Vicarious trauma refers to the effects of helpers exposing to clients’ traumatic experiences (McCann & Pearlman‚ 1990). It is a cumulative and permanent process which changes therapist way of perceiving self‚ other‚ and world. McCann and Pearlman (1990) conceptualized vicarious trauma within Constructivist Self-Development Theory (CSDT)‚ which asserts that every individual experience and interpret life events through cognitive schemas. When developing schemas are impacted by exposing to traumatic
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different psychotherapy modalities on trauma. The psychotherapy approaches‚ namely‚ psychodynamic therapy approach and Focusing-oriented psychotherapy‚ will be explored through examination of a case. Different approaches use different interventions‚ which are rooted in perspective theories. Examining how a clinician could work with the case in this paper through the lens of each approach would help us understand the theories’ strengths and challenges. Trauma and PTSD diagnosis Many people in the
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Rape Trauma Syndrome Forensic Psychology 44.343.201 By: Hannah Elliott October 14th 2012 There are plenty of television shows and cases on the news that show or talk about rape victims‚ but it doesn’t impact us as much as it should. Do you know the mental or emotional trauma that these victims go through after they have become a rape victim? Rape is one of the harshest forms of criminal violence against another human being. The victim is rendered powerless by physical force‚ threats‚
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The results of these studies reinforce the evidence that nurses contribute to the effective functioning and communication of the trauma team. A study that introduced a nurse team leader improved the perceptions of a nurse led trauma team within the ED (Clements et al.‚ 2015). The leadership role for a nurse leading a trauma team requires the nurse to oversee the trauma team resuscitation in conjunction with the medical team leader. It is important that they work together to ensure the smooth running
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