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Genesis, from The holy Bible, King James version Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. Simone de Beauvoir, "Personal Freedom and Others" in Ethics of Ambiguity. Rewriting (Harris) Forgotten History. Trauma and Recovery (Afterword) Readers, Contexts, and Rhetorical Situations (Writing Today) Developing Paragraphs and Sections. The Trauma of Being Alive. Ta-Nehisi Coates Looks At The Physical Toll Of Being Black In America : Code Switch. Coates with his son Samori.

Ta-Nehisi Coates Looks At The Physical Toll Of Being Black In America : Code Switch

Random House hide caption toggle caption Random House Coates with his son Samori. Random House When writer Ta-Nehisi Coates sat down at NPR's New York studios a few days ago, he got a little emotional. Felitti 1998 ACEstudy. How Childhood Trauma Could Be Mistaken for ADHD - Rebecca Ruiz. Dr.

How Childhood Trauma Could Be Mistaken for ADHD - Rebecca Ruiz

Nicole Brown’s quest to understand her misbehaving pediatric patients began with a hunch. Brown was completing her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, when she realized that many of her low-income patients had been diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Craft of Research "From Topics to Questions" DSM V PTSD. The Professional Counselor » Trauma Redefined in the DSM-5: Rationale and Implications for Counseling Practice. Trauma survivors are a unique population of clients that represent nearly 80% of clients at mental health clinics and require specialized knowledge on behalf of counselors.

The Professional Counselor » Trauma Redefined in the DSM-5: Rationale and Implications for Counseling Practice

Researchers and trauma theorists agree that, with the exception of dissociative identity disorder, no other diagnostic condition in the history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has created more controversy with respect to the boundaries of the condition, diagnostic criteria, central assumptions and clinical utility than post-traumatic stress disorder. Homeless Veterans Surviving Rape and Indifference - Darlene Matthews, a homeless veteran, has been living in her car for. Korea’s Comfort Women: The Fight to Be Heard - Thousands of Korean women were lured or coerced to work in brothels.

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A Revolutionary Approach to Treating PTSD

What if PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? Then came an even more surprising discovery.

What if PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological?

They examined the brains of two veterans who died just days after their blast exposure and found embryonic versions of the same injury, in the same areas, and the development of the injuries seemed to match the time elapsed since the blast event. Perl and his team then compared the damaged brains with those of people who suffered ordinary concussions and others who had drug addictions (which can also cause visible brain changes) and a final group with no injuries at all. No one in these post-mortem control groups had the brown-dust pattern. Perl’s findings, published in the scientific journal The Lancet Neurology, may represent the key to a medical mystery first glimpsed a century ago in the trenches of World War I.

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Erikson’s ideas, the sociologist Ron Eyerman suggests that the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina might be viewed through a similar lens. But environmental catastrophes aren’t the only source of collective trauma. Wars, genocide, financial crises, even large-scale movements of population can radically challenge established ways of living together. Trauma May Be Woven Into DNA of Native Americans. Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes. Genetic changes stemming from the trauma suffered by Holocaust survivors are capable of being passed on to their children, the clearest sign yet that one person’s life experience can affect subsequent generations.

Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes

They also analysed the genes of their children, who are known to have increased likelihood of stress disorders, and compared the results with Jewish families who were living outside of Europe during the war. “The gene changes in the children could only be attributed to Holocaust exposure in the parents,” said Yehuda. Her team’s work is the clearest example in humans of the transmission of trauma to a child via what is called “epigenetic inheritance” - the idea that environmental influences such as smoking, diet and stress can affect the genes of your children and possibly even grandchildren. The idea is controversial, as scientific convention states that genes contained in DNA are the only way to transmit biological information between generations.

Is Trauma Genetic? Scientists Say Parents Are Passing PTSD to Kids. Traditionally, psychiatrists have cited family dynamics to explain the vicarious traumatization of the second generation.

Is Trauma Genetic? Scientists Say Parents Are Passing PTSD to Kids

Children may absorb parents’ psychic burdens as much by osmosis as from stories. They infer unspeakable abuse and losses from parental anxiety or harshness of tone or clinginess—parents whose own families have been destroyed may be unwilling to let their children grow up and leave them. Parents may tell children that their problems amount to nothing compared with what they went through, which has a certain truth to it, but is crushing nonetheless. Silencing the Children RBA Sample. RBA Dissections Kohlmann. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Rat. The Stanford Storytelling Project. In this show, we are talking about a very special kind of belief—belief in something.

The Stanford Storytelling Project

Often considered a defining human characteristic, like language, belief shapes our lives. We put our confidence in something that is unseen; we understand the world in terms of a bigger, unknowable framework. This ability may not be unique to humans, but it does appear to be a very special talent. The Rhetorical Situation. Understanding and being able to analyze rhetorical situations can help contribute to strong, audience-focused, and organized writing. The PowerPoint presentation in the Media box above is suitable for any classroom and any writing task. The resource below explains in more detail how to analyze rhetorical situations. Understanding Rhetoric Writing instructors and many other professionals who study language use the phrase “rhetorical situation.” This term refers to any set of circumstances that involves at least one person using some sort of communication to modify the perspective of at least one other person.

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We're working hard this summer on a redesign of the Purdue OWL. Worry not! Our navigation menu and content will remain largely the same. Summary: MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. How to Cite a Photograph in MLA - EasyBib Blog. Photograph – An image produced by a camera.Citing a photograph displayed in a museum or institutionStructure:Last, First M. Photograph Title. Year Created. Photograph. Museum/Institution, Location. Museum/collection: Where the photo is takenCity: City where the photo is locatedExample:Cartier-Bresson, Henri. MLA Formatting and Style Guide. Summary: MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

Contributors:Tony Russell, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli, Russell Keck, Joshua M. Paiz, Michelle Campbell, Rodrigo Rodríguez-Fuentes, Daniel P. Kenzie, Purdue OWL StaffLast Edited: 2014-02-17 04:26:06. Create an MLA Digital Image Citation for your Bibliography. Memos. Summary: 'Between the World and Me' by Ta-Nehisi Coates. PTSD: The War Disorder That Goes Far Beyond the Battlefield. The first time I experienced what I now understand to be post-traumatic stress disorder, I was in a subway station in New York City, where I live. "The Empathy Exams" by Leslie Jamison.

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