Keywords: Rape-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD), Sexual Abuse, Trauma, Violence Introduction Trauma is defined as a psychological threat or assault to a child's physical integrity, sense of self, safety or survival or to the physical safety of another person significant to the child (Vermont, p 170). ... What is Rape-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Terr (1992) defined Rape-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder as a reaction to being exposed to an event which is outside the range of normal human experience. ... It can be concluded that after being sex-abused, the ...

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Stress causes mental or physical tension or strain. ... In situations of extreme stress, officers may display the symptoms usually associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ... Another form of stress is organizational stress. ... Role stress is the type of stress that derives from characteristics of occupational roles that promote the onset and maintenance of stress (Hall, 1992). The main concern of research into role stress is investigating the circumstances to perceptions of stress. ...

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The victim is faced with a variety of stress if they choose to persecute their offender. ... The perpetrator's lawyers often ask degrading questions which add to the stress and shame, such as "what were you doing in the parking lot at night and what were you doing wearing that dress?... They may also develop eating disorder for example, if the victim is thin, she will want to become fact, and if the victim is fact, she wants to be thin. ...

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Directed Forgetting of Trauma Cues in Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse With and Without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Children that are in sexual abuse situations are smaller and not as powerful as their predator. ...

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Besides that, he also suffers from anxiety and it could seem like he's also affected by posttraumatic stress disorder after his time in the military, where he served as a soldier who killed people. ...

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"Slaughterhouse Five" Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a novel involving the character Billy Pilgrim. Billy is a WWII veteran, German prisoner of war, and survivor of the bombing of Dresden, who insists that he has become stuck in time. Having witnessed and survived the atrocities of WWII, there is no doubt tha...

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Coker 1 The Senseless Murder Abortion clinics across the United States kill over one million children per year (Hollander 54). These facilities must be permanently closed. The service offered is immoral and causes serious emotional and physical complications (Reardon 65). Abortion is absolutely ...

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Intense anxiety producing situations like this can manufacture certain psychological disorders and/or exaggerate already existing psychological characteristics. ... He could be viewed as possibly having posttraumatic stress disorder. ... Schizophrenia refers to a class of disorders involving severe distortions of reality (Feldman et al. 2004). Process schizophrenia refers to schizophrenia that has a gradual onset, and reactive symptoms have a sudden onset following a stressor (Feldman et al. 2004). ...

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