This week reviewed trauma and the domino effects created on the mind and body.
Fully understanding trauma mechanisms and that each individual will have a different perspective and effect from trauma is key to individuated care toward healing and improve patient outcomes. Trauma & Building Resilience Trauma has a unique effect on the mind and body that can be cascading. Knowing the pathology of trauma can assist the PMHNP in teaching coping skills for building resilience in the overall population. Trauma changes the brain and physical body at the cellular level, so the effects must include both behaviors to address the effects of the trauma as well as behaviors to build resilience overall for future impacts of daily stress and any future trauma. Questions
• Define Trauma & Building Resilience
• Examine self-criticism and its role in trauma.
• Contrast medical diagnoses from mental health concerns for the adult/geriatric population.
• Analyse trauma and the impact on overall health for the adult/geriatric population. Textbook Required Reading American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
• Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders & Dissociative Disorders p. 265-308 Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2015). Kaplan and Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). London, England: Lippincott Williams, and Wilkins.
• Chapter 11: Trauma- and Stressor Related Disorders • Chapter 12: Dissociative Disorders Recommended Reading Johnson, K. & Vanderhoef, D. (2016).?Psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner review & resource manual?(4th ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing.
• Chapter 10
