Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Abused Victims

Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder among Abused
Victims

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Literature Review............................................................................................................................1
Post-traumatic stress disorder......................................................................................................1
Analysis of PTSD in adults along with impact over health and routine life...............................4
Rational for group intervention along with discussion and evaluation.......................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Post traumatic disorder is known as mental health situation that arises due to facing of some
terrifying event like life threatening activities and physical harm. This issue occurs due to the
consequences of traumatic ordeals which create helplessness, intense fear, horror, sexual or
physical assault and accident (Aydin and et. al 2016). The person who experience traumatic
event has reactions like shock, anger, nervousness, fear and even guilt. These feelings are normal
with common person but with an individual suffering from PTSD, these feelings increase
continuously. This situation has negative impact over the routine life of suffering person. The
most common phenomenon when the chance of its occurrence will be high is the situation of
physical and sexual abuse. The person lies under this category are majorly suffering from PTSD.
The main aim of this report is to gather knowledge about the concept of PTSD including
intervention measures.
The aspects cover in report includes discussion about the concept of PTSD along with
theories that affect the development of problem, analysis about target population i.e. adult along
with impact of PTSD on adults and rationale for group intervention along with their discussion
and evaluation (Coppens and et.al., 2017).
Literature Review
Post-traumatic stress disorder
In short form this is called as PTSD. It is a stress disorder that develops among the persons
in the situation of facing some shocking, scary and dangerous event. It is clear that feeling of
afraid after a traumatic event is natural. This fear further work as triggering split second changes
in person body for the purpose of defending against danger or its avoidance. This is known as
fight or flight response. It is a kind of typical reaction that works in the direction of protecting a
person form any type of harm. After experiencing trauma, creation of such reaction is common
among all people. The normal person will recover from this situation after passing of initial
period of time. The persons who are not able to recover and feel same reactions continuously
may be diagnosed with PTSD. The individuals who are suffering from PTSD always feel
stressed and frightened, even in case of no danger near to them (Botsford and et. al. 2019).
The common phenomenon’s when chance of occurring PTSD will be high in person
includes sexual and physical assault, an accident, war, natural disaster, intense fear and
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helplessness. All the people who faced the traumatic event have the reactions of shock, fear,
guilt, anger and nervousness (Golin and et.al., 2016). The occurrence of these reactions is
common in all people irrespective to their nature. Normal people can easily overcome from the
feelings within one month of time period. Those who are suffering from PTSD facing the
problem to get rid of such feelings. These will increase day by and impact the normal routine life
in negative way. This clearly depicts that the symptoms persist longer than one month of time
period in PTSD suffering persons.
The symptoms of PTSD will be start occurring after three months of any incident (Gray,
2016). In some exceptional cases, this will does not occur until the passing of whole one year
after the happening of an incident. The severity and duration of this illness depends over many
factors like time of event, nature of event, body conditions etc. There are many symptoms that
help to recognise the issue of PTSD in a person. To understand properly, this is further divided in
to four different categories. All these are defined below:
Reliving: This includes the repetition of sufferings in PTSD person due to occurrence of
regular thoughts and memories of trauma. These will have incurred in the form of flashbacks,
hallucinations and nightmares. The situation of distress also occurs from the things that reminds
about the traumatic event (Hong and Efferth, 2016).
Avoiding: The persons who suffering from PTSD will start avoiding people, places,
situations and thoughts that resultant into remembrance of trauma. The impact of this ascertained
in the form of detachment and isolation from the family and friends. Also, the person loose
interest in the activities which were once enjoyed (Hopwood and Schutte, 2017).
Increased arousal: This includes occurrence of different aspects such as presence of
excessive emotions, difficulty in sleeping, outbursts of anger, poor concentration, problems
relating to others, showing affection and being jumpy or startled. There are also some physical
issues facing by PTSD person includes high blood pressure & heart rate, muscle tension, high
breath rate, nausea and diarrhoea (Jonker and et. al., 2019).
Negative cognitions and moods: This includes about the creation of feelings related to
blame, estrangement and memories with traumatic event.
The problem of PTSD is very common in all over the world. It is ascertained from the
past information analysis that on an average 5.2 million people in all over the world is suffering
from the condition of PTSD. There is no age for its development but its commonly found among
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