Effects Of Childhood Trauma
Literature review
The experience of childhood trauma increases the likelihood that symptoms of PTSD will reoccur during adulthood (JAMA, 2008). The New England Journal of Medicine defines PTSD as a result of an events capacity to provoke fear, helplessness, or horror in response to the threat of injury or death (2002). A PTSD diagnoses will present symptoms of avoidance (to include person, place, or things), flashbacks of the event, nightmares, insomnia, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and somatic symptoms (Diagnostic Statistical Manuel 5, 2013). The risk factors that increase the symptoms are environmental such as high crime neighborhoods and poverty. Psychological factors increase with these risks factors and increase development for …show more content…
Many of the victims experienced dissociation, sleep disturbance, tension, sexual problems, anger, and high usage of psychoactive medication. Most of the women were treated for long-term affects of PTSD (Briere & Runtz, 1987). It was reported the client was abused since the age of three, the movie portrays the client at age sixteen, therefore the long-term effects of her abuse was observed in her character. Due to the fact, the client was never seen by medical or health professional, no interventions or healthy coping skills were implemented. The symptoms of PTSD were observed throughout the movie through the client’s behaviors.
Children who experience childhood abuse are 3 ax’s more likely to experience major depression or attempt suicide, and adolescence is the most vulnerable period that suicide is repeated (Brown, Cohen, Johnson & Smailes, 1999). Children, who experience child incest, preludes additional concerns and pathology of etiology such as family power, socioeconomic status, isolation, and the mother’s personality(Vander & Neff, …show more content…
The mother reports, her mother expressed correct hygiene when breastfeeding the client and sexual pleasure with the father, the social worker interpreted this disclose to mean there may have been inappropriate sexual abuse towards the mother as a child.
In a research study by University of Los Angeles, concluded that race was not a risk factor for childhood sexual abuse. The study concluded that girls were more likely to be assaulted opposed to boys and socioeconomic status was a risk factor when reporting the victimization (Wyatt, 1985). The client is an African American female and did not report the abuse to anyone until she was sixteen. The client’s fear and dissociation more than likely contributed to the isolation. The client was probed by the DHS counselor to disclose the events of the
The experience of childhood trauma increases the likelihood that symptoms of PTSD will reoccur during adulthood (JAMA, 2008). The New England Journal of Medicine defines PTSD as a result of an events capacity to provoke fear, helplessness, or horror in response to the threat of injury or death (2002). A PTSD diagnoses will present symptoms of avoidance (to include person, place, or things), flashbacks of the event, nightmares, insomnia, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and somatic symptoms (Diagnostic Statistical Manuel 5, 2013). The risk factors that increase the symptoms are environmental such as high crime neighborhoods and poverty. Psychological factors increase with these risks factors and increase development for …show more content…
Many of the victims experienced dissociation, sleep disturbance, tension, sexual problems, anger, and high usage of psychoactive medication. Most of the women were treated for long-term affects of PTSD (Briere & Runtz, 1987). It was reported the client was abused since the age of three, the movie portrays the client at age sixteen, therefore the long-term effects of her abuse was observed in her character. Due to the fact, the client was never seen by medical or health professional, no interventions or healthy coping skills were implemented. The symptoms of PTSD were observed throughout the movie through the client’s behaviors.
Children who experience childhood abuse are 3 ax’s more likely to experience major depression or attempt suicide, and adolescence is the most vulnerable period that suicide is repeated (Brown, Cohen, Johnson & Smailes, 1999). Children, who experience child incest, preludes additional concerns and pathology of etiology such as family power, socioeconomic status, isolation, and the mother’s personality(Vander & Neff, …show more content…
The mother reports, her mother expressed correct hygiene when breastfeeding the client and sexual pleasure with the father, the social worker interpreted this disclose to mean there may have been inappropriate sexual abuse towards the mother as a child.
In a research study by University of Los Angeles, concluded that race was not a risk factor for childhood sexual abuse. The study concluded that girls were more likely to be assaulted opposed to boys and socioeconomic status was a risk factor when reporting the victimization (Wyatt, 1985). The client is an African American female and did not report the abuse to anyone until she was sixteen. The client’s fear and dissociation more than likely contributed to the isolation. The client was probed by the DHS counselor to disclose the events of the