Multicultural Awareness Multicultural Awareness The purpose of this paper is to analyze oneself by taking the Multicultural-Self Assessment and learn about the “Other” of one self. This will help one to associate with clients from different cultures. Multicultural Self-Assessment Summary The results of the Multicultural Self-Assessment were not surprising to me. Thirteen of the answers were five (5)‚ which is not surprising to me because I was taught by my family and I to accept
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According to the Oxford dictionary‚ trauma is a mental condition caused by severe shock‚ especially when the harmful effects last for a long period of time. Trauma brings with it negative feelings like anxiety and worry. There are two types of trauma‚ simple or acute trauma and complex or chronic trauma. Acute traumatic events offer at a particular place and time and are usually short-lived. Examples include a road carnage‚ terrorist attack‚ loss of a loved one‚ or a gang-related violence in the
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Introduction Childhood trauma effects children worldwide in different ways in regards of their mental status‚ attention‚ and memory. There have been astounding amount of evidence in regards of the effects of childhood trauma in regards to impairment in cognition. Children who experience sexual‚ physical‚ or psychological abuse research have indicated the child will demonstrate psychiatric symptoms‚ neurodevelopment deficiencies and physical health consequences (Szanto et al‚ ). According to Hovens
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big deal‚ it is. Concussions are invisible head injuries that can lead to severe consequences such as permanent brain damage or long term head injuries that requires an athlete to sit out our take a break from the sport that they are playing. Head traumas could lead to behavioral mood changes‚ such as personality and mood changes. With mood changes‚ it could be a result of long-term concussions. Long term head injuries could leave a negative impact on athletes. Since concussions are injuries that could
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Dr. Burke discussed some very interesting information about the effects of childhood trauma on not only the child’s brain‚ but also on their immune system‚ hormonal system and even the functioning of their DNA. Early exposure to childhood adversity affects many parts of the brain‚ including the nucleus accumbens that triggers pleasure‚ the frontal cortex that triggers your impulse control‚ and the amygdala which triggers fear responses. After reading about a study conducted by another doctor that
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children to experience this kind of trauma? Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a stress experienced after exposure to traumatic stressors such as assault‚ abuse‚ accidents‚ and warfare. PTSD develops when a child experiences a significant traumatic event such as car accidents or ongoing trauma over time such as war. PTSD affects children of all ages. Estimates from nationally representative samples show that many children experience repeated exposure to trauma or multiple types of traumatic events
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Vicarious trauma is when a person‚ who has not experienced a traumatic event himself or herself‚ begins to display symptoms of trauma and crisis because of hearing about or witnessing the traumatic events victims of crisis. Vicarious trauma usually unfolds over time or dependent upon the intensity of the crisis experience. Because vicarious trauma can happen to individuals who are trying to care for victims of crisis‚ it is important that those who have experience crisis is given a safe‚ yet “initial”
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Renowned psychologist Erik Erikson is best known for his theory of psychosocial stages of personality development. Unlike Freud‚ Erikson’s theory spans a person’s entire lifespan‚ from childhood to old age. One of the main elements of Erikson’s psychosocial stage theory is the development of ego identity (Cherry‚ 2013). Ego Identity is the conscious sense of self that we develop through social interaction (Cherry‚ 2013). Erikson believed that our ego identity is constantly changing due to new
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between what is real and what is fictional. On television‚ hospitals experience abundant traumas‚ rarely experience death‚ and doctors are glorified as heroes‚ whereas in reality it is not as dramatic. Trauma is inescapable and intriguing in real life‚ but not to the dramatic extent depicted in the media. Television inaccurately portrays the life of a physician in the trauma center. Television portrays trauma as excitement and not as an issue. We watch heaps of physicians scurrying around an overcrowded
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PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TRAUMA Introduction A traumatic event is any situation whereby a person is affected psychologically due to the severity of the event. In such cases‚ a person may find it difficult to move on to normal life which they had no problem with before the traumatic event. A recent event that affected hundreds of people in Kenya was the Westgate terror attack. Terror attacks cause people to lose trust in humanity. This attack left many people traumatised Fortunately‚ these consequences
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