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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Hospital Setting

so because if such fears and problems are dealt with quickly, before they become firmly imbedded in a patients mind, they can be m...

Stress Theory And Coping With Stress

results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...

BILLY PILGRIM: PTSD OR SEVERELY PSYCHOTIC?

shelters to get corpses out "as a sanitary measure," is how he puts it (Hayman et al). Even more gruesome was his description of t...

Effects of PTSD on Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Red Convertible,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home,’ and Tim O’Brien’s ‘How to Tell a True War Story’

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

Psychological Trauma in All Quiet on the Western Front

in Pauls company is an older man, Katczinsky, a man who has a family back home. He perhaps serves as something of a strong foundat...

Trauma and its Lasting Life Effects

has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...

PTSD and Employee Management

Is The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, specifying that the ordeal which has t...

Discussion of PTSD

disorder, or a family history of anxiety and neuroticism" (Grinage, 2003). The body responds in measurable ways to various stress...

Definition and Types of PTSD

Hurricane Katrina is one of the most recent examples of an event that resulted in PTSD among some victims. Szegedy-Maszak (2005) ...

Personal Account Of An Event

as he sat waiting for the red light to turn green. Before he knew it, he was tumbling along with his jeep down the incline, flipp...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome And The Counting Method

upon as wholly overwhelming. II. SUMMARY The individual conjures up a traumatic memory while the therapist counts from ...

Traumatic Experiences and Military Psychology

In a paper of twelve pages, the writer looks at military psychology. Mechanisms for coping with traumatic experiences are examined...

PTSD Literature Review

In a paper of six pages, the author reviews articles on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The author identifies the problem a...

Program to Promote Good Mental Health in a Refugee Community

not just to the move, but the circumstances under which the individual became a refugee. In general terms for all migrants the pot...

Case Studies: Mental Illness and Treatments

are dysfunctional if their recall leads to distressing and/or dysfunctional responses (Paunovic, 2010). There are two major comp...

PTSD Group Therapy for Veterans

This research paper presents empirical information that the student can use to develop group therapy that addresses the needs of v...

Overview of PTSD and Trauma

world in which they live and these changes in cognition may lead to co-morbid conditions, such as alcohol or drug addiction (Willi...

Social Work: History and Application

large, multifaceted group that is its own entity in a sense. After all, we tend to prescribe certain qualities and judgments to so...

The Varied Manifestations and Causes of PTSD

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) results from a...

PTSD and its Effects Upon Soldiers' Lives

But all that stress accumulates" (McGirk, 2009, p. 40). With lengthy tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, PTSD is unfortunately...

Telling Older Relatives That They Can No Longer Drive

This essay is on the task of informing older relatives that it is unsafe for them to drive any longer. This is an emotionally tra...

Model for Crisis Intervention

This paper begins by offering a diagnosis for an individual who suffered a trauma. The diagnosis is post-traumatic stress disorder...

Treatment Approaches and PTSD

This research paper offers description of several different approach to treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The ...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Soldiers

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a condition that has always existed but it is only in the last few decades that it has received ...

Service Dogs and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

This paper considers the alternative means of treating PTSD. The VA does not currently approve service dogs. There are twenty-tw...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Data

Post-traumatic stress disorder or what is more commonly referred to as PTSD has only been diagnosed using these terms since the la...

Educating the Public About Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

loved ones. One means of instilling a better understanding of PTSD is education. The National Center for PTSDs (2009) website sho...

Hamlet and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

Biological Perspectives on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Through Eye Movement Desensitization Treatment

memories is about as easy as holding ones breath: it just cannot be done without help; as such, those suffering from PTSD must be ...