PTSD-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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PTSD-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

• AM Myers
• PEARLS Hawthorne School
• ammyers_at_pearls.ypschools.org

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AIM What is PTSD?
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GROUP DISCUSSIONTHINK, PAIR, SHARE

• Define Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
• Discuss your opinions with your group members

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DEFINITIONS

• Stress mental, emotional, or physical strain
  caused by anxiety, worry, concern
• Trauma an extremely distressing experience that
  causes severe emotional shock and may have
  long-lasting psychological effects
• PTSD Post-traumatic stress disorder is a type of
  anxiety disorder that's triggered by a traumatic
  event. You can develop PTSD when you experience
  or witness an event that causes intense fear,
  helplessness or horror.

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PTSD CAUSES

• Discuss for a moment with your group the causes.
• Share with the class what your GROUP feels are
  the causes for PTSD.

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PPA FORMAT EVALUATION

• Evaluate the current policy on treatments for
  PTSD using the PPA format
• Using the following worksheet determine if the
  current policy is effective and what can we do to
  improve this policy.
• Policy worksheet 4 (Examining existing public
  policy)

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WHAT CAN BE DONE?

• Veterans can attend therapy sessions at the VA
  hospital
• Check out work/school/community therapeutic
  resources
• Take stress management classes
• Certain drugs/medicines can help elevate some
  symptoms of the disorder

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NEW POLICY CREATION

• From your review of the existing policy create a
  new policy, using the following worksheet.
• WORK SHEET 6 (Selecting the best public policy
  solution)

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ADVOCACY CHAMPAIGN

• Create a poster campaign that tells others what
  the new policy is going to be.
• Your poster should be INFORMATIVE, as well as
  CREATIVE!
• Follow the directions you will be graded using
  a standard poster rubrics

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