Explain The Risk Factors For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) After Wenchuan Earthquake?
Identify and explain the risk factors for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after Wenchuan earthquake. What are the possible resilient factors?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that people get anxious after experiencing, witnessing a disastrous event. Normally when people feel dangerous about certain situation, they feel afraid and feared. It is natural for people to have a ‘fight-or-flight’ response and it is a healthy reaction that protects people from danger. However, people who have PTSD’s self-protecting system are damaged or dysfunctional due to their previous experience about disastrous events.
Symptoms of PTSD could be divided into three categories including re-experiencing symptoms, avoidance symptoms and …show more content…
As they have lost their family members and relatives, it is not likely for them to seek help from family and friends. Even their family members or friends survived, they are also victims of Wenchuan earthquake that they are not going to be helpful by giving positive energy. The other resilience factors are feasible as long as there are professionals to guide them through.
Resilience is a dynamic process instead of a one-off process, which encompasses positive adaptation. (Rutter, 2007) Resilience is described as ‘to adapt and function successfully following exposure of trauma’. (Masten, 2001) It is important to set clear developmental goals for resilience. Desirable developmental outcomes for victims and those who successfully attain the outcomes under adverse circumstances can be considered resilient. (Hughes, Graham-Bermann, & Gruber, 2001) As we can see, resilience is a developmental process that has to be adapted by victims step by step to achieve successful …show more content…
Protective factors in situations of high risks, a person’s quality to predict better outcomes. (Wright & Masten, 2006) Protective factors associated with resilience include individual child-level protective factors and family level protective factors. Individual child-level protective factors are applicable to victims of Wenchuan earthquake as resilient factors for PTSD.
For child-level protective factors, victims’ engagement in positive social activities, arousing their talents and interests and educational aspirations are very important. These would raise their emotionality, social expressiveness and self-esteem. For victims of Wenchuan earthquake, it is important to help them go through the pain and engage them back into daily life. Encouraging the victims to engage in social activities is a vital resilient factor.
Resilient measures have to be performed in a long term in order to recognize the function. Therefore, social support is the key to help victims of to lessen the risk of having PTSD. Also, victims should also be actively participating in order to resilient from
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that people get anxious after experiencing, witnessing a disastrous event. Normally when people feel dangerous about certain situation, they feel afraid and feared. It is natural for people to have a ‘fight-or-flight’ response and it is a healthy reaction that protects people from danger. However, people who have PTSD’s self-protecting system are damaged or dysfunctional due to their previous experience about disastrous events.
Symptoms of PTSD could be divided into three categories including re-experiencing symptoms, avoidance symptoms and …show more content…
As they have lost their family members and relatives, it is not likely for them to seek help from family and friends. Even their family members or friends survived, they are also victims of Wenchuan earthquake that they are not going to be helpful by giving positive energy. The other resilience factors are feasible as long as there are professionals to guide them through.
Resilience is a dynamic process instead of a one-off process, which encompasses positive adaptation. (Rutter, 2007) Resilience is described as ‘to adapt and function successfully following exposure of trauma’. (Masten, 2001) It is important to set clear developmental goals for resilience. Desirable developmental outcomes for victims and those who successfully attain the outcomes under adverse circumstances can be considered resilient. (Hughes, Graham-Bermann, & Gruber, 2001) As we can see, resilience is a developmental process that has to be adapted by victims step by step to achieve successful …show more content…
Protective factors in situations of high risks, a person’s quality to predict better outcomes. (Wright & Masten, 2006) Protective factors associated with resilience include individual child-level protective factors and family level protective factors. Individual child-level protective factors are applicable to victims of Wenchuan earthquake as resilient factors for PTSD.
For child-level protective factors, victims’ engagement in positive social activities, arousing their talents and interests and educational aspirations are very important. These would raise their emotionality, social expressiveness and self-esteem. For victims of Wenchuan earthquake, it is important to help them go through the pain and engage them back into daily life. Encouraging the victims to engage in social activities is a vital resilient factor.
Resilient measures have to be performed in a long term in order to recognize the function. Therefore, social support is the key to help victims of to lessen the risk of having PTSD. Also, victims should also be actively participating in order to resilient from