Dealing with Traumatic Patients: Case Studies and Intervention

Case Study

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
Emotional trauma is defined as the injury to psyche when a person go through a
distressing or horrific event and feel challenging to cope with routine activities. A patient may
feel anger, denial, fear and shock. Mental trauma can be acute, chronic or complex. Acute trauma
is experienced due to a single incident. Chronic trauma deals with domestic abuse and it is
repeated. Complex trauma is caused due to multiple traumatic events. It takes time to get over
with anxiety and pain but counselling can speed up the recovery (Bardes and et. al., 2019). In this
report, there are two patients suffering with mental trauma due to their terrible past experiences.
In case study 1, Deshna was a 45 years old woman who is reported anxiety and disturbance
where as in case study 2, Tony was a paramedic by his profession and experiencing walking with
nightmares. In the given report, all the giver questionaries are tried to be answered (Alfheim and
et. al., 2019).
MAIN BODY
Collaboration relevant to case study
As it is mentioned in the case study, Deshna is 45 years old woman, living with her son,
his wife and children. Three years ago, after spending 5 years in refugee camp, she was arrived
in Australia and recently experiencing waking up due to nightmares. Deshna is also suffering
with insomnia as she reported feeling difficulty with sleeping at night. In such cases, counsellor
play a vital and challenging role as the process of recovery is more difficult when patients have
some traumatic experiences. Counsellor needs to recognise patients need in order to respond
them appropriately. Counsellor must collaborate with family members as well as patient's close
one to gather abundant information with the purpose to make the counselling effective. Before
conducting, counsellor need to collaborate with her family members to know more about her
behaviour and daily routine (Chuck and et. al., 2021). She is living with her son, daughter-in-law
and grandchildren. It is required to investigate, with whom she is very close in between these
three. He or she may assist the counsellor to understand her recent mental condition. Deshna also
have some friends at her community centre. It might be possible, she is sharing her problem with
her friends. Counsellor may go to her friends to know about the problems, faced by her. It is
being a long time that Deshna goes to the community centre and her friends can better tell to the
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counsellor about her behavioural changes. Counsellor gets the idea either she participates in
activities held in the community. Counsellor knows more about her point of view and it will
assist to make counselling effective. Counsellor get more information about deshna's past
incidents due to which she started feeling depressed and anxious (D’Addario and et. al., 2022).
In case study 2, Tony was paramedic from a regional centre who recently attended an
accident where a teenager was killed quad biking. This accident completely left him numb and
he started complaining for nightmares. His wife recommended him to consult a counsellor to
overcome with this trauma. During the counselling, it has been observed that Tony was sweating
a lot. He also started wringing his hands which indicates he was not feeling comfortable while
sharing his problem. In this situation, counsellor need to collaborate with his wife as she better
knows his behaviour and how to make him calm. His wife will assist the counsellor to get
familiar with his past experience which often bother him (Gawlytta and et. al., 2020).
Patient information
Three years ago, Deshna returned to her home after spending five years in refugee camp.
It is very traumatic to live without family for so long. Refugee women suffer a lot of sexual
abuses and epidemic rapes. Deshna can be one of them. Refugee women do not have access to a
number of protection measures which are required to be available for all the refugee women.
Half of the total number of refugees across the nation are women. Deshna was not in a condition
to accept the changes such as locality, weather and language. As she was refugee local citizens
were not ready to accept her and she felt discriminated. This make her feel sorrow and
depression. After coming back home she started going to community centre where she made new
friends so she can communicate with them and share her feelings (Karagianni and et. al., 2022).
Tony was a paramedic by his profession and was attending with life-threatening and non-
life-threatening injured patients. High level of reliability made him feel depressed. He needed to
stay calm under the pressure of work and high level of patient expectation. As it is the most
trusted profession in Australia, Tony needed to keep his job at the top priority. Both the patients
were suffering with mental trauma due to their own past experiences. They both were not
comfortable with sharing their problems and started feeling anxiety when they asked about it
(Kowalski and et. al.,2021).
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