Question

consider the symptomology of PTSD and how trauma can affect children and adolescents. Then, select a different type of childhood or adolescent trauma from the one you selected for the Discussion.

Consider the posttraumatic stress symptoms that are likely to occur and what type of treatment interventions you might use to treat the child or adolescent. Also, think about how you might support or educate parents or guardians as they attempt to support their child or adolescent.

Answer 1

Post traumatic stress disorder is a disorder in which people persistently reexperience the traumatic event in their thoughts and dreams. They feel as if they are releasing the events from time to time; persistently avoid stimulus associated with the dramatic events; and persistently experience symptoms of increased arousal such as difficulty falling asleep, irritability, outburst of anger or difficulty in concentrating. Post traumatic stress disorder can stem from a wide range of traumatic events that natural disorders, accidents, rape and other assaults, torture or the horrors of war time combat.

A child faced accident in the school bus and by fate he has been saved where some of his friends are no more and many have been severely injured. Now the child is in safe with her parents. But her parents find that in the night the child sometimes cries in fear and slips away from bed. When she is asked she says that she also experienced the same accident in her sleep - crashing in the ground, accompanied by shrieks of fear and pain from all the children.

Her parents should be advised to increase the coping skill in the children. The child should be accompanied by her parents and the child should be under cognitive therapy. At the same time Group Therapy will be helpful for the children. The parents should constantly make the child understand that it is a natural matter and anytime such events can happen in one's life.