CASE STUDY OF MARK.

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CASE STUDY OF MARK
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Introduction:
Trauma informed care approaches are applied by healthcare professionals who treat
people with histories of trauma but should not be considered as the therapy or intervention or any
other specific action. This approach actually helps in recognizing the presence of the different
types of trauma symptoms and thereby acknowledge the role that trauma can play with the lives
of people (Berliner & Kolko, 2016). Trauma can be explained as the extreme level of stress that
occurs when individuals cannot cope up with the stress anymore. This can be a set if events or
circumstances that have the capability of affecting the physical as well as emotional well-being
of the persons. This assignment will show how mental health nurses need to apply the principles
of trauma-centered care and practices called TICP to ensure that better and safe interventions are
designed for the patient and help them to develop better quality life.
One of the most important issues that contributed to his substance abuse disorder is the
development of mental illness that eventually took away his urge to participate in the sports
which often made him physically drained and mentally exhausted. Therefore, he was seen to
breakdown in front of his mother stating that he was no longer able to beer the pressure of his
sports career with the mental health condition. Soon, he was seen to leave his career and spend
most of the time of his days outside rehearsal and practice sessions. He was left with huge
amount of time where he felt bored in his life. Such boredom made him try out new activities out
of which going out of Friday and trying out new drugs was his new way of cutting down
boredom. What started out as measure for cutting down boredom turned into addiction for Mark.
Researchers are of the opinion that boredom is intricately associated with the picking up of new
addiction as individuals get huge time to experiment with new things in life that gives them
pleasure like addiction to drugs (Carello & Butler, 2015). Hence, boredom could be found to be

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the reason that actually resulted Mark to become addicted to cocaine. This can be connected with
the principle of TICP like that of “safety”. It mainly describes developing a place where
individuals should feel culturally, physically and emotionally safe and get the scope to reach
their full potential by completion of their hopes and aspiration in quality health and also
understanding and having awareness regarding any issue of discomfort faced by them (Goldstein
et al., 2018). In the case study it can be seen that Mark was actually not in a very happy and
satisfied phase of his life after leaving his career. He felt insecure about his condition and in
order to overcome such feelings and to cut down boredom, he was seen to take the resort of
cocaine.
Another problem that was also identified in case of Mark that exposed him to drug
addiction is the inability understands and received appropriate information about the mental
health condition that affected him in his early adulthood. It was seen that there was lack of
awareness among people regarding mental health disorders. People had no idea about how to
tackle such mental health conditions successfully (Kassam et al., 2015). Hence, during the time
of Mark also, no one became aware that he was already suffering from mental illness. These
mental disorders had made him to leave his career, which had emotional impact on his mental
health as well. Therefore, in order to get relieved from this mental condition and emotional pangs
of living the career, he might have taken the resort of cocaine. Studies have already found that
one of the contributors of drug addiction is to escape from reality, as drugs are believed to help
people overcome their stress by helping them to survive in an alternate reality of pleasure. In this
situation, the principle of TICP that can be applied by the nursing health professional is
transparency and trustworthiness. This principle mainly advises nurses to share full as well as
accurate information to the clients about what is happening to the patient and what would be