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PTSD In emergency responders Paper outline
**PTSD in emergency responders Outline**
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. Ensure you include, as a minimum, the required main points (listed below):
Main Point 1: (TLO 1/ELO 1.2 and TLO 2/EO 2.1) Compare and contrast a minimum of five (5) crisis intervention models. In your opinion, which model would you use in this particular instance? Explain your rationale.
Main Point 2: (TLO 3/EO 3.1-3.3) Discuss the effects of trauma and PTSD as they relate to the victims of this tragedy. Ensure your research additionally covers the multicultural aspects of crisis intervention and appropriate steps in dealing with victims within the high/low-context continuum.
Main Point 3: (TLO 4/EO 4.1-4.3) Describe your crisis response to students who are experiencing vicarious trauma (i.e. indirect victimization). How would you deal with other first responders who are experiencing the same type of trauma? Would you approach be different? The same?
Main Point 4: (TLO 5/EO 5.1-5.2 and TLO 6/EO 6.1-6.2) Discuss the concept of vicarious trauma as it relates to YOU as a first responder. What steps can you take to provide for both your mental and physical well-being in the immediate future and beyond?
Paper must be outlined following some of the resources at the bottom, can also use additional: following previous Annotated Bibliography assignment.
Annotated Bibliography
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Horowitz, M. J. (1997). Stress response syndromes: PTSD, grief, and adjustment disorders (3rd ed.). Jason Aronson.
This book is serves as a great resource for identifying forms of PTSD and its relationship to my chosen topic of how posttraumatic stress disorder affects emergency responders. The book centers on the theory and research on the stress response syndromes, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, and adjustment disorders. Part I empathizes on describes the investigations into the characteristics of stress response syndromes. Part II centers on helping explain these general response tendencies and describes the principles of brief treatment for stress-induced symptoms and signs. Part III elaborates on these principles, contrasting 3 neurotic styles by using a single, manipulated case. Part IV presents 6 case histories, including transcripts of sections of the psychotherapeutic process, in order to show how personality factors and preexisting conflicts form a patient’s reaction to a stressful life event. The final chapter shows how the theory of stress response fits other sectors of clinical knowledge and how it may provide a paradigm that can be extended into other areas of stress disorder.
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Burke, L. A., Neimeyer, R. A., & McDevitt-Murphy, M. E. (2010). African American homicide bereavement: Aspects of social support that predict complicated grief, PTSD, and depression. OMEGA-Journal of death and dying, 61(1), 1-24.
On this article the writer emphasizes on the psychological adaptation following homicide loss which is challenged not only by the violent nature of the death itself but also by the bereaved’s relationships with would-be supporters., the article examined perceived support and actual support, the size of the support network, family- versus non-family support, and number of negative relationships to gauge the role of social support in bereavement outcomes such as complicated grief, PTSD, and depression. By utilizing quantitative assessments to reveal the size of available network, quantity of negative relationships, and levels of grief-specific support were correlated with the bereavement process.
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Pivar, I. L., & Field, N. P. (2004). Unresolved grief in combat veterans with PTSD. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 18(6), 745-755.
This article emphasizes on the importance of loss of comrades during combat as a significant source of distress. And in conjunction it shares the same principals in stress disorter that can be articulated with the stress disorder that Police Officers and first responders experience. As the article describes that empirical studies have not focused on unresolved grief as a possible outcome of combat experiences. As opposed to unresolved grief being treated “after the fact” in the context of treating PTSD and depressive symptoms. In this study, it is sought to demonstrate the prominence of combat related grief specific symptoms in a sample of Vietnam veterans being treated for PTSD disorders.
4. Carlier, I. V., Lamberts, R. D., Fouwels, A. J., & Gersons, B. P. (1996). PTSD in relation to dissociation in traumatized police officers. The American journal of psychiatry.
This article examined the relationship between dissociation and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in law enforcement officers. I chose this source as it basically relates to the area of my focused study. Therefore, this study focused on a group of law enforcement officers who had experienced a traumatic event, as the chronic dissociative symptoms of 42 police officers with PTSD, 50 police officers with partial PTSD, and 50 police officers who experienced no PTSD symptoms after the trauma were diagnosed.