The thing is-it doesn't go away

Things don't always get worse before they get better... In fact they sometimes don't go away, therefore we seem to make things better by repressing the memories that cause us discomfort, de-attaching the emotions connected to the memory and allowing us to forget.  Only thing is that ounce we push a memory that far in depth in forgetfulness altering our minds causing  us to suffer from the after math of unresolved issues which in contrast become a triggered sub-normality and can be quiet a complex struggle to over come. 

Its the here and no to raise awareness, educate ourselves with positive actions to negative feelings and pass the word on, to prevent it from taking place in another child's life!  Please it starts with us-voice your concerns I'm here to listen! 

  

The Effects of Trauma Do Not Have to Last a Lifetime

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"Most people will experience a trauma at some point in their lives, and as a result, some will experience debilitating symptoms that interfere with daily life. The good news is that psychological interventions are effective in preventing many long-term effects."

Findings

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. Traumatic events that may trigger PTSD include violent personal assaults, natural or human-caused disasters, such as terrorist attacks, motor vehicle accidents, rape, physical and sexual abuse, and other crimes, or military combat.

Those suffering from PTSD can have trouble functioning in their jobs or personal relationships. Children can be traumatized and have difficulty in school, become isolated from others and develop phobias. Many people with PTSD repeatedly re-experience the ordeal in the form of flashback episodes, memories, nightmares, or frightening thoughts, especially when they are exposed to events or objects that remind them of the trauma. PTSD is diagnosed when symptoms last more than one month.

Psychologist Roxane Silver has studied the effects of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Her research focused on the immediate and long-term responses to the attacks and found that the severity of exposure to the event, rather than the degree of loss, predicted the level of distress among people. For example, people who reported seeing the planes smash into the trade center buildings experienced more PTSD symptoms than average, but people who experienced financial losses because of the attacks did not. Other studies have shown that simply watching traumatic events on TV can be traumatic to some, especially those individuals who had pre-existing mental or physical health difficulties or had a greater exposure to the attacks.

The good news is, research has shown that psychological interventions can help prevent these long-term, chronic psychological consequences.

In general, cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) (which strive to help traumatized individuals understand and manage the anxiety and fear they are experiencing) have proven very effective in producing significant reductions in PTSD symptoms (generally 60-80%) in several civilian populations, especially rape survivors. Even combat veterans who have experienced PTSD after chronic, repeated exposure to horrific events experience moderate benefits from CBT (though, not surprisingly, this kind of repeated trauma is harder to treat).

Research also suggests that brief, specialized interventions may effectively prevent PTSD in some subgroups of trauma patients. Psychologist E. B. Foa and colleagues have developed brief cognitive-behavioral treatments (lasting four to five sessions) that include, (1) education, (2) various forms of relaxation therapy, (3) in vivo exposure (repeated confrontations with the actual traumatic stressor and with situations that evoke trauma-related fears), and (4) cognitive restructuring (techniques for replacing catastrophic, self-defeating thought patterns with more adaptive, self-reassuring statements). If used within a few weeks of exposure to traumas, this brief form of therapy often prevents PTSD in survivors of both sexual and nonsexual assaults. R. A. Bryant's research found that cognitive-behavioral treatment is also effective in preventing the occurrence of PTSD in survivors of motor vehicle and industrial accidents. In addition to targeted, brief interventions, some trauma survivors may benefit from ongoing counseling or treatment, according to Bryant, and candidates for such treatment include survivors with a history of previous traumatization (e.g., survivors of the current trauma who have a history of childhood physical or sexual abuse) or those who have preexisting mental health problems.

Significance

Trauma disorders are a common and costly problem in the United States. An estimated 5.2 million American adults ages 18 to 54, or approximately 3.6 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have PTSD. In 1990, anxiety disorders cost the U.S. an estimated $46.6 billion. Untreated PTSD from any trauma is unlikely to disappear and can contribute to chronic pain, depression, drug and alcohol abuse and sleep problems that impede a person's ability to work and interact with others.

According to psychologist R.C. Kessler's findings from The National Cormorbidity Survey Report (NCS) that examined over 8,000 individuals between the ages of 15 to 54, almost 8 % of adult Americans will experience PTSD at some point in their lives, with women (10.4%) twice as likely to be victims as men (5%).

Practical Application

The challenge for the mental health community is to learn how best to help people who are suffering from ill effects of traumatic events. Within the past decade, a number of programs have been created to bring appropriately trained mental health services to trauma victims. Examples include:

• 
  The American Psychological Association developed its Disaster Response Network (DRN) in response to the need for mental health professionals to be onsite with emergency workers to assist with the psychological care of trauma victims. Over 1,500 psychologist volunteers provide free, onsite mental health services to disaster survivors and the relief workers who assist them. The APA has worked with the American Red Cross, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), state emergency management teams and other relief groups on every major disaster our country has experienced and many smaller disasters since 1992.
• Under the auspices of The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) 15 state departments of mental health have initiated formal efforts to better address the needs of persons exposed to trauma with state-wide trauma initiatives and resources. Now "tool kits" have been developed to better help trauma victims.
• The University of South Dakota developed the Disaster Mental Health Institute (DMHI) in 1993. Psychologist Gerad Jacobs, Ph.D., helped create the Institute in response to his involvement in helping airline crash victims in the 1989 Sioux City airline crash. The DMHI is designed to bring together practice and research in disaster mental health and help prepare psychologists to deliver mental health services during emergencies and their aftermath. Furthermore, educational opportunities exist for students to learn how to serve their communities in times of disaster. This undergraduate program includes working with the American Red Cross Disaster Service.
• Pacific Graduate College and Stanford University created the National Center on Disaster Psychology and Terrorism (which has been renamed National Center on the Psychology of Terrorism), which trains doctoral students to help victims of catastrophic events.

 Cited Research

Blanchard, E.B., Hickling, E.J., Barton, K.A., Taylor, A.E., Loos, W.R., & Jones-Alexander, J. (1996). One-year prospective follow-up of motor vehicle accident victims. Behaviour Research and Therapy, Vol. 34, No. 10, pp. 775-786.

Bryant, R.A., Sackville, T., Dang, S.T., Moulds, M.L., & Guthrie, R. (1999). Treating Acute Stress Disorder: An evaluation of cognitive behavior therapy and supportive counseling techniques. American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 156, No. 11, pp. 1780-1786.

Bryant, R.A., Harvey, A.G., Dang, S.T., Sackville, T., & Basten, C. (1998). Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder: A comparison of cognitive-behavioral therapy and supportive counseling. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 862-866.

Frueh, B. C., Cusack, K.J., Hiers, T. G., Monogan, S., Cousins, V. C., & Cavenaugh, S. D. (2001). The South Carolina Trauma Initiative. Psychiatric Services, Vol. 52, pp. 129-146.

Foa, E.B., Hearst-Ikeda, D.E., & Perry, K. J. (1995). Evaluation of a brief cognitive-behavioral program for the prevention of chronic PTSD in recent assault victims. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 63, No. 6, pp. 948-955.

Foa, E. B., Dancu, C.V., Hembreee, E. A., Jaycox, L. H., Meadows, E. A., & Street, G. P. (1999). A Comparison of Exposure Therapy, Stress Inoculation Training and their Combination for Reducing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Female Assault Victims. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 67, pp. 194-200.

Kessler, R. C., McGonagle, K. A., Zhao, S., Nelson, C. B., Hughes, M., et al. (1994). Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States. Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 51, pp. 8-19.

Kessler, R. C., Sonnega, A., Bromet, E., Hughes, M., & Nelson, C. B., (1995). Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey. Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 52, pp. 1048-1060.

King, L.A., King, D.W., Fairbank, J.A., Keane, T.M., and Adams, G.A. (1998). Resilience-Recovery Factors in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Female and Male Vietnam Veterans: Hardiness, Postwar Social Support and Additional Stress Life Events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 74, pp. 420-434.

Narrow WE, Rae DS, Regier DA. NIMH epidemiology note: prevalence of anxiety disorders. One-year prevalence best estimates calculated from ECA and NCS data. Population estimates based on U.S. Census estimated residential population age 18 to 54 on July 1, 1998. Unpublished.

Silver, R.C., Holman, A., McIntosh, D.N., Poulin, M., and Gilrivas, V. (2002). Nationwide Longitudinal Study of Psychological Responses to September 11. Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 228, pp. 1235-1244.

Zoellner, L.A., Fitzgibbons, L. A., & Foa, E. B., (2001). Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to PTSD. In J. P. Wilson, M. J. Friedman, & J. D. Lindy (Eds.), Treating Psychological Trauma and PTSD (pp. 159-182). New York: Guilford

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Man charged with sexually assaulting seven-year-old Sask. girl Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/charged+with+sexually+assaulting+seven+year/8159800/story.html#ixzz2OoSiUsYj

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When a young girl went missing from her home in Viscount, a construction worker who’d seen an “odd” conversation between her and a neighbor thought he probably knew where she was.
That neighbor  Jack Wayne Broesky, had been over at the house earlier in the day, talking with the seven-year-old girl within earshot of Thomas Vossen, who was working up on some scaffolding tearing siding off the girl’s house. Vossen testified he saw Broesky bent over talking to the girl with one hand on her bum and one hand on her chest.

“I thought that encounter was very odd. He didn’t seem close to the family,” Vossen said. “The encounter seemed off.”

Broesky, 58, is on trial in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench charged with sexually assaulting and unlawfully confining the girl, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, on May 25, 2011.

After Vossen was done work that day, he went home but later received a text message from one of his co-workers that the girl was missing. He said he immediately thought of what he had witnessed between the girl and Broesky.

Vossen and his co-worker drove to Broesky’s home, where Vossen knocked repeatedly and loudly on the door but didn’t get any answer, said Vossen, who is now a police officer in Saskatoon.

They then drove to the Viscount bar because Vossen had earlier seen Broesky leave the girl’s home by getting into a vehicle with the bar owner. They didn’t find Broesky at the bar so they returned to his house. While they were there, the girl’s father — who had been driving around town looking for his daughter — noticed them and came over. Vossen told the girl’s father about his suspicions and asked if he should phone the police.

After Vossen phoned police — who had to come from Saskatoon, 45 minutes away — the father knocked on Broesky’s door. This time, Broesky opened it and the girl came out of the house.

RCMP conducted a videotaped interview of the girl later that night. On the video, which was played in court, she told the RCMP officer that Broesky had rubbed bug spray and suntan lotion on her body, and put baby powder on her private parts. She also said she saw Broesky naked and described him masturbating.

She said that when she first met Broesky, he was her best friend, “but now he isn’t because he’s touching everything of mine and I don’t like it.”

The defense called one witness, another neighbor who said she had seen the girl and other children playing what appeared to be hide and seek around Broesky’s house that day. Tracy Holcomb said she saw the girl “sneak” up onto Broesky’s front steps, as if to hide, but then the girl was out of her line of sight and she didn’t see her again until later that night when the girl’s dad carried her away from Broesky’s house.

Holcomb also described an incident two days earlier where she saw the girl talking with Broesky, who was sitting in a lawn chair in his front yard. They were talking and touching, she said.

“I texted my neighbor ... asking her if she thought it was weird that (Broesky) was interacting with kids this way,” Holcomb said. “She didn’t think so, but in my gut, I was weirder out at the time.”
The Crown and defense will be making their closing arguments on the case Wednesday afternoon.

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Intro to Personality - Psychology 101

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Intro to Personality Psychology

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~~~~~`Chapter 1: Introduction to Personality Theory and Development~~~~~~~~

_{So what is personality}?

To understand this concept, you first need to understand

 the difference between a trait and a state…

A trait is a relatively permanent individual characteristic.  For example, most of know people who are outgoing, friendly, confident, or shy.  When we describe these people, we use these traits to better understand their personality; to better understand who they are. 

A state, on the other hand, is a temporary change in one's personality.  Examples of states might be angry, depressed, fearful, or anxious.  We typically use states to describe a person's reaction to something.

Here Are some facts I found out…………………….

Ø  Personality is one of the most theorized aspects of Psychology researched.

Ø  To Understand the difference between trait and state you need to think about how a person is and then take note of how they may change; temporarily.

Ø  Traits are characteristics of an individual that makes them standout or unique.

 Why is it important to research and theorize about personality?

Ø  To understand the characteristics of a person’s behavior to observe future patterns; in hopes to change or control the outcome.

Ø   To understand certain aspects of a person’s lifestyle that is causing negative impacts, in hopes to make a positive impact.

 As you can see, the ultimate goal of psychology is to improve the quality of life through a better understanding of individual differences and similarities.  Personality is concerned a great deal with all five of these goals, but we will spend the majority of the text discussing the first three.  In other words, personality theory is concerned with observing individual characteristics, understanding how these different characteristics came about, and finally, how they are impacting the individual’s quality of life

Why Study Personality?

If we know a person is confident, or outgoing, or friendly, what do we need to study?  Why is it important to research and theorize about personality?\To answer these questions, you need to understand a little about the field of psychology in general.  Psychology is the study of thoughts, emotions, and behavior, and their interaction with each other and the world.  There are five basic goals of psychology:

Ø  Describe – The first goal is to observe behavior and describe, often in minute detail, what was observed as objectively as possible

Ø  2. Explain – While descriptions come from observable data, psychologists must go beyond what is obvious and explain their observations. In other words, why did the subject do what he or she did?

Ø  3. Predict – Once we know what happens, and why it happens, we can begin to speculate what will happen in the future. There’s an old saying, which very often holds true: "the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior."

Ø  4. Control – Once we know what happens, why it happens and what is likely to happen in the future, we can excerpt control over it. In other words, if we know you choose abusive partners because your father was abusive, we can assume you will choose another abusive partner, and can therefore intervene to change this negative behavior.

5. Improve – Not only do psychologists attempt to control behavior, they want to do so in a positive manner, they want to improve a person’s life, not make it worse. This is not always the case, but it should always be the intention. ~*Cit.  Dr. Christopher L. Heffner

Licensed Psychologist

Published: August 21, 2002

The Online Tests at AllPsych are divided into three categories: Psychology Academic tests are taken directly from the material on this website and are designed to test your knowledge and understanding of psychological principles and theory.   Diagnostic Screening tests were developed to help you better understand your own mental health based on general categories of psychopathology and mental illness.  Please remember, these quizzes can not replace a true diagnostic assessment by a licensed mental health professional. Finally, the Self-Help quizzes were designed to give you a better understanding of your relationships, communication, stress level, etc.  These quizzes provide both a score and an interpretation, but please use them as a guide only.

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Studies on Child Abuse and the facts...........................................................

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Studies on Child Abuse and the facts...........................................................

• Confusing the experience for the child is damaging to the psycho-sexual development, which is usually lacking underneath.
• Sexually abused children are usually more emotionally immature than their peers.
• Over 90% of Sexual predators are ,male.
• Children are the victims, but are still socially stigmatized, not only from their on guilt, but from peers, neighbors and family, which further distorts the child's perspective on self on relations.
• Secondary Traumatization the family process  is where the child is not believed and is actually held responsible for the abuse which causes secondary damages and long term behavioral problems noted later in life.
• Secondary Traumatization the individual process is where the victim displays the sexual behaviors or victim behaviors throughout life, which makes them  more vulnerable and unable to protect themselves from the consequences of their own behaviors; such as sexualized communication and victim messages. (Which leads to entirely new cycles of secondary victimizations and abused.
• Secondary damages can also be cause by an over competent professional as well, by the professional intervening at the wrong context. Therefore leaving long term effects of unsuccessful unethical interventions.
• Secondary damages are also the consequence of non-interventions, this is when the child’s attempts to receive help are denied, either by the protective parent or trusted adult social structure.  Often interlocking the syndrome of secrecy & in addition making the abused child further live full of guilt and shame, that was never theirs to bare.

Dealing with a severely damaged individual in a professional aspect is a serious and consequently life altering way, the multi-professional must always take in mind that it is their legalities and should focus on the patient with human rights and health aspects about procedures and patient rights.

*Treatment of the complexities in the effects of sexual child abuse is something a person must not take light hearted, not only should the person have personal experience in this area, but also have much empathy in perspective the victim may perceive them to direct the blame

*Secondary damages from non-intervention can also be self caused, as to the victim doesn't trust herself to no who to trust and this causes her to never attempt to get help for recovering from the extensive damages lingering from the abuse.

Citation:The Multi-Professional Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse: Integrated Management ...

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