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A 4 page overview of this psychological disorder. The author defines the disorder and outlines the types of traumas with which it is associated. The emphasis is made that just as each case of PTSD varies in its cause and manifestation, to too must the treatment vary. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: AM2_PPptsd.rtf
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the more common psychological disorders. It can affect anyone and commonly manifests in situations involving psychological
trauma. It obeys no lines of delineation in terms of age, gender, race or culture. This trauma can occur at the hands of sexual predators, war, a natural
disaster, or even vicious animals (Rich, 1997). Unfortunately, diagnosing and treating post traumatic stress disorder can be quite complicated and not always successful.
Post traumatic stress disorder is most often associated with those that have had to endure the horrors of war. The Vietnam War, for example, resulted in an
estimated 960,000 American soldiers being diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (Silverstein, 1996). The children and other individuals who experienced the horrors of the war first hand often experience
the condition as well. Fortunately, not all war veterans and not all wars seem to have such a high propensity for post traumatic stress disorder. So too do
other incidents of stress not always impact people the same. Never-the-less, the possibility of PTSD is always present. Hurricane Katrina is one
of the most recent examples of an event that resulted in PTSD among some victims. Szegedy-Maszak (2005) emphasizes that entire communities have been eradicated, families separated and entire cities
destroyed. To further complicate the problem the storm left an environment where there were many dangers, toxic waters, live electrical wires, uncontained human waste, and all sorts of biological
dangers not the least of those was the violence being perpetrated by many of the victims of the storm (Szegedy-Maszak, 2005). Consequently, those working with these individuals are now
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