Essays on Medicine Page 19

At a time when citizens of the United States are more concerned than ever about military spending and veteran’s benefits, there is no better time to examine one of the most widely diagnosed mental health issues affecting our troops: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a…

Chesney, M., Lao, L., Vegella, P., Magyari, T., Robertson, M. B., Berman, B., & Kimbrough, E. (2014). Acupuncture and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Among Female Child Abuse Survivors: A Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Pilot Study. Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, 20(5), A87–A87. https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2014.5229.abstract The purpose of the present study was to examine the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress…

The population being studied is female sexual assault survivors. Participants are females aged 18 years and older who have experienced at least one incident of sexual assault. Convenience sampling is used to recruit volunteers to participate in the study from local counseling agencies. Convenience sampling offers an approach to obtaining a sample using whoever is…

In our society today, there are many factors that attribute to our mental health and how we cope with our day to day afflictions. For many, the simple task of coping can be extremely difficult because of past traumas and unfortunate experiences. The effects of these experiences can intensify and turn into something more serious…

The researchers of this study were trying to make connection between women who have posttraumatic stress disorder from intimate partner violence and their autobiographical memory. The hypothesis was tricky to find, but it suggested that PTSD may have an influence on the autobiographical memory of the IPV victims. The participants were intimate partner violence victims…

The United States is home to American veterans from every military conflict since World War II. The United States defines a veteran as any individual who has served in military under active duty status and was released from such duty under any condition other than dishonorable (Veteran’s Benefits, 2014). Narrowing our focus down to veterans…

September 11, 2001 was a day that many Americans and other people across the world will never forget. This day has impacted and effected many people such as the survivors, their friends, family, the world, and the community. This bibliography will include three scholarly articles involving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on survivors and people who…

Traumatic experiences are an aspect of human life. The psychological consequences of trauma, specifically due to war and conflict, have long been a point of interest in medicine and the scientific community. Early attempts at diagnosing psychological symptoms following military trauma date back to the early 1800s. The American Civil War and Prussian War veterans…

The weight that results from unpleasant misfortunes resuscitates a degree of psycho-empowered and physiopathological results. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychological issue that results from the experience of seeing of terrifying or unsafe events. PTSD has fundamental psychobiological interfaces, which can aggravate the person’s all around the requested life and be hazardous. In light…

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, serious accident, terrorist act, war/combat, rape, or other violent personal assault (American Psychiatric Association, 2017). It affects approximately 3.5 percent of U.S. adults. An estimated one in 11 people…