is a rehab facility that provides a long term‚ 12 step based program for those dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The organization believes that trauma is center in the nervous system and that telling the story of how the trauma happened in a nature setting helps the nervous system process the trauma. They feel that processing the trauma reduces the need for maladaptive coping mechanisms such as substance abuse. Their vision is to provide an environment of healing in a safe and friendly atmosphere
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associated with experienced trauma. Therapy consists of eight phases that address past‚ present‚ and future of the negative event. During treatment‚ a patient is required to summon the negative events while simultaneously focusing on external stimuli such as side to side eye movements‚ hand tapping or audio stimuli. Shapiro claims that in that way the brain’s natural adaptive information processing mechanisms are engaged and in that way evoke decrease in effects of the trauma. EMDR was originally developed
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Purpose Statement This paper is intended to explore the intervention Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and its effectiveness in treating children with a history of trauma who are also experiencing symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This paper will discuss the significance and prevalence of children with traumatic histories in the United States‚ and the effects associated with those traumas and the importance for addressing this issue in the context of the child
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gov/admins/lead/safety/emergencyplan/index.html Virginia General Assembly (1999). The Model School Crisis Management Plan‚ 2. Retrieved December 2‚ 2008‚ from http://pen6.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/model.html Zenere‚ F. (2004). How Children with Trauma and Ongoing Threat: The BASIC Ph Model. National Association of School Psychologists. Retrieved December 2‚ 2008‚ from http://www.nasponline.org/
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medical‚ and even spiritual leaders have been trying to understand and discover successful methods of treatment for years. Thanks to pure empirical research‚ there is now more hope for a cure than ever before. Biblically speaking‚ exposure to trauma was part of the human condition since The Fall in Genesis 3. However‚ the oldest known written response to a traumatic event was actually derived from a cuneiform tablet that described the brutal death of King Urnamma (2111-2094 BC) in battle (Ezra
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a certain part of themselves. Their days became darker‚ painful‚ and hopeless. How were they able to overcome such pain of losing a loved one or actually going through it themselves? Three qualities one should have when going through this type of trauma includes not isolating oneself‚ getting more active‚ and knowing how to self-regulate. First‚ isolating oneself from the world is a one-way ticket to a land of pure depression. Although it is common want to withdraw from others‚ one should try connecting
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There are many events in a person’s life that can be considered traumatic. Trauma can be easily described as a distressing experience caused by an event or physical injury. The symptoms that follow a traumatic event can include disassociation‚ hyperarousal‚ and avoidance. Some people choose to cope with their symptoms in many different ways such as substance abuse‚ medication‚ and/or therapy. When working with trauma there are many diverse forms of treatment. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
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Early Childhood Trauma v. Social Anxiety Disorder Daisy Gonzalez Moraine Valley Community College Abstract These articles explain information on causes of social anxiety disorder (SAD). SAD is caused by emotional and physical abuse. I will be summarizing and comparing both a popular article of Psychology Today: Mirror‚ Mirror: Seeing yourself as others see you and a scholarly article in Annals of General Psychiatry: An analysis of early development trauma in social anxiety disorder (SAD) and
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Instructor: Denise Scatena‚ Ph.D May 21‚ 2010 ABSTRACT Historical trauma is defined as an aggregate of emotional and psychological wounding over the lifespan and across generations‚ emanating from massive group trauma and continues to impacts the group (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_trauma). In the case‚ of Native Americans‚ which is due to their historical treatment by the United States’ federal government‚ such traumas may include the legacies of boarding schools‚ massacres‚ and forced
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Amici Curiae Brief in Support of Responsible Mental Health Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Nearly eighty years ago‚ the first legitimate research into treatment of mental illness began‚ marking the emergence of a new era where an individual’s illnesses were identified not as an incurable‚ innate defect but instead identified as any other type of illness that could be overcome through treatment. Mental health research continues to play an important role in assisting the courts on important
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