a. Demographics and context: Daneka was a 15 year old girl. She was a loving, energetic girl who had lots of friends, was a straight-A student and enjoyed dancing. She was raised in a middle-class family who always wanted what was best for Daneka. Yet, her mom and dad worked a lot and, therefore, weren’t able to drive Daneka to school every day or spend much time with her because they were always busy with work obligations. However, this wasn’t a problem considering she lived only a few blocks from the school and could walk every day. This never raised any issues since they lived in, what seemed to be, a safe neighborhood and an overall safe community where crime rates were low. Also, Daneka seemed to be a popular, well-known girl that everyone …show more content…
Biological: The believed alterations of the brain responsible for PTSD are those that are changed due to sufficient stress which causes allostatic load. This includes long-term alterations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and norepinephrine systems as well affected brain areas like the amygdala, hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. b. Social-contextual: A possible explanation of difficulties establishing a reciprocal, consistent interaction with her parents. Especially considering the fact that they’re always occupied with work and can’t seem to make enough time for Daneka. This could’ve been occurring way before the traumatic event even happened, but afterwards it could’ve impacted her even more because she has no one to talk to about the event and console her, which makes Daneka distance herself even further away from others and her loved ones. This can overall contribute in developing a lack of consistent stimulation, comfort and routine for Daneka which results in her forming an insecure-disorganized attachment. This could’ve caused this onset of PTSD from happening, resulting in the mixture of approach and avoidance, apprehension, helplessness and a disorientation, which helps to explain Daneka falling behind in her cognitive and social development. Also, it is suspected that Daneka has difficulty with emotion regulation in overall understanding, labeling and regulating her internal states. Poor emotion regulation is overall at …show more content…
Psychotherapeutic Treatment: It is understandable that some children and teenagers will do everything they possibly can to avoid the feelings they are having. Yet, attempts to avoid or escape their emotions and feelings can make them worse, which is why I chose to implement trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT). This has been adaptive for many sexually abused victims and others, is actually developed for kids and is seen to be highly effective. It incorporates both behavioral and cognitive components as well implementing family and supportive elements. Some of the major components of the treatment are psychoeducation and parenting strategies, relaxation, affective expression and regulation, cognitive coping, trauma narrative and processing, in vivo exposure, conjoint parent child sessions and enhancing personal safety. Two skills that were particularly taught to Daneka were teaching her some muscle relaxation and deep breathing skills. This could be useful for her when she experiences nightmares, flashbacks or anxiety in general about the event. Another skill taught to Daneka was teaching her how to recognize signs if she’s ever in danger and how to stay safe. She was overall taught stress management and relaxation skills to help her cope with any unpleasant, intruding feelings or memories about the traumatic event. Daneka, also, engaged in an activity during the treatment where she would tell her own story or narrative about what had happened to her. This
Ms. Vega fits both of these criteria as she was raped multiple times and her mother refused to believe her when Ms. Vega voiced her pain. Despite the fact that Ms. Vega has dissociated states, they are fueled by stressors related to her childhood trauma. Stressors and stress responses are the two main characteristics of stress disorders and Ms. Vega’s behaviors appear to be dominated by them. Because of this, it is suggested that the main diagnosis be PTSD for Ms. Vega. It can be difficult to distinguish between PTSD and DID when both seem to be at play.
PTSD is formed through memory schema based on a cognitive behavioral view (Hyde & Quest, 2012, page 285). She couldn’t remember the attack Jane Doe started questioning her
Summary “Who cares about Kelsey?” is a documentary that was by Dan Habib but stared Kelsey Carroll. The film is about an adolesant that suffered from ADHD. While being prescribed medication to help with this, Kelsey did not like the medication and often refused to take it. While refusing to take It may had been beneficial to her health, it was not beneficial to her mental health. Since Kelsey struggled with taking the ADHD medication, she suffered from emotional and behavioral challenges.
Lamyia experienced abuse when she was a child which causes worry for her children from her past experiences. Suggestions from Lamyia’s Integrated Assessment were individual therapy/life couching and interactive parenting education. Lamyia may benefit from trauma focused therapy due to her childhood trauma, domestic violence, involvement with DCFS, and everyday life
PTSD affects more than 3 million people a year and people can either forget about what happened to them that caused them PTSD or people can get serious symptoms. PTSD is when someone experiences or witnesses a horrifying accident that they can’t forget. PTSD is caused by physical and emotional feelings or thoughts. Some effects of PTSD can negatively affect your physical and mental health. All Quiet on the Western Front is a book that can relate to people nowadays that have PTSD by talking about a soldier named Paul that goes through terrifying experiences in World War 1.
(STEWE-2) I also see how PTSD changes Najmah in another section of the book. It states, “By that evening a dull ache has settled into my belly and my bowels, and my legs feel as if they’re made of water. I am unable to concentrate on anything, not even on how I will look for my father and brother. The thought that I might be an orphan hovers around me like a wicked djinn, and so my mind flits from one thought to another, not allowing in anything that is so troubling” (Staples 103-104).
This treatment options helps to recreate the relationship and regulation process that is seen in a healthy infant-parent relationship (Steinhart et al., 2012). This process can involve a parent or child reliving a traumatic experiencing, but learning to process it psychologically in a more stable way. The parent
The focus of this paper is the core concept that traumatic events may cause changes in one’s family life, reminders the traumatic experience, and other adversities in relation to the trauma. Amarika, an 18-month-old girl, was with her mother in the park when a stray bullet from gang violence hit Makisha, Her mother. This initial event caused many changes in Amarika’s life. Makisha had complications from surgery and had to stay in the hospital for an extended period of time. When Makisha was to return home, the family also faced the distress of her rehabilitation.
A second form of perception that lots of PTSD patients have is the perception of oneself as defective and intolerable. Another major point that was talked about in this article was the symptom of avoidance. Avoidance is seen happening in large quantities in PTSD patients, which leads to a PTSD patient inviting self-punishment, which prevents connection to family members. Avoidance leads also leads to emotional numbing, disassociations, suicide, and compulsive behaviors. Another correlation that was found was that there is a positive correlation between self-blame and suicide.
Finding PTSD in The Catcher in the Rye The world-wide famous book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger can be argued to contain a character that goes about his life with many symptoms of PTSD. The main character, Holden Caulfield, goes through a truly tough time in his life after he loses his little brother, Allie, to leukemia. The article “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” from the National Institute of Mental Health helped me better understand the mental illness of PTSD. Both the book and the Article have taught me that PTSD is a mental health disorder that usually occurs after a stressful or terrifying event in someone's life.
As well as, different types of ways solutions to help with PTSD, but the best way is to get help. In addition, it explained the actions that happen to people who experience a traumatic event. It also gave me a better idea of different types of traumas, such as being neglected by your parents, being young and witnessing something terrifying such as a terrorist attack, as well as witnessing your mother get beaten by a stranger and taken away. Finally, I can now explain how traumas affect the body, brain, and
This is Dr. Makayla Chamzuk writing from the Westlock Medical Clinic in regards to patient Blanche DuBois of whom I have been analyzing for the previous month. Through analyzing Miss Dubois’s behavior and attitude I have concluded to diagnose my patient with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder.) PTSD is the exposure to trauma from single events that involve death, and individuals tend to avoid anything that reminds them of the event. According to the information provided from the Canadian Mental Health Associate website, this disorder causes intrusive symptoms such as re-experiencing traumatic events and can make the patient feel very nervous or “on edge” constantly or when experiencing stressful events. Multiple traumatic events and situations Blanche has been exposed to has made her susceptible to this mental disorder, I am
Richard Kuklisnsky was born in Jersey city new jersey in the mid’s 1930’s. He was raced in the project as a child, and went through abandonment from his parents. Basically his parent used to careless about him. He was raced in an abusive family; his parent used to maltreat him for any little reason. His father used to beat on his mother, siblings and him as well.