Discerning Trauma

NGomez

  • Towards a Transtheoretical Model for Treating Trauma

    a focus on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, polyvagal theory, internal family systems, and neurofeedback Continue reading

  • Review & Reflection on Teaching and Learning Discussion

    To begin with I thought I would share my 4-year-old’s wisdom as he sat next to me and asked what I was doing as I was typing the answer to this discussion. I told him I was doing my homework,… Continue reading

  • Yahusha, the Master Teacher

    Reading Scripture with the purpose of examining the way Yahusha taught is a task that feels long overdue. The majority of my walk I have approached His teachings as student, simply trying to learn and apply. Now, through this assignment,… Continue reading

  • Thoughts On Higher Order Thinking & Adult Learning

    Although all of the topics covered in the assigned readings were relevant and important for us to understand about adult learning, I felt the two that were most important had to do with the need adults have for education to… Continue reading

  • Using Discussion for Critical Thinking

    Teaching and Learning Critical Thinking Components Techniques of Discussion Starting a discussion with a common experience can drive thought deeper because some of the pressure is removed from the discussion since all students have seen or read it (Svinicki &… Continue reading

  • A Reflection on Qualitative Research

    Story of this Journey  There once was a woman who believed that what she saw was what it was. Not being aware of where other paths were or how to even get to them, her faint understanding of divergent viewpoints… Continue reading

  • Intermediate Statistics and Research Project

    Discerning Meaning: Examining the Relationship between Religious/Spiritual Meaning and Stress Abstract This study examined the relationships between gender and stress on religious/spiritual (R/S) meaning struggles through a mediation analysis. Participants (N=736) completed the Religious and Spiritual Struggles (RSS) scale to… Continue reading

  • The Null Hypothesis and You

    Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), or statistical significance testing, is used to compare the sample means with hypothesized population means (Warner, 2021). Once a proposed value for population mean is determined, it is compared to a sample mean to see… Continue reading

  • Basic Statistics

     A well-rounded understanding of statistics includes the evaluation of outliers and of methods for sampling distributions. Measures of central tendency are important tools in the study of statistics for the evaluation of data. Mean, median, mode, and range all describe… Continue reading

  • Basics of Research

    The idea of causal inference can be considered with respect to interactions in everyday life. Many correlations may be observed throughout our days, however although correlation is necessary, it is not a sufficient condition for causal inference (Warner, 2021a). This… Continue reading

  • Endocrine Stress Response During and After Pregnancy

    A study (Stickel et al., 2020) collected hair samples from women less than one week postpartum and 12 weeks postpartum to measure amounts of hair cortisol (HCC) and hair cortisone (HCNC). The women were evaluated and placed in a non-depressed… Continue reading

  • Coping With Distorted Thinking

    Name, Feel, Surrender, Redirect Adapted from Uncovering Happiness by Elisha Goldstein as stated in The Art of Holding in Therapy by Karen Kleinman. When faced with negative thoughts, we may be reminded of the Scripture which refers to renewing our… Continue reading

  • Reflection Journal: Professional Disaster Responses

    Several ideas from the multiple reading sources this week stand out as critical information for the student of disaster mental health response. The characteristics of effective helpers as described by Jacobs (2016) appear central to the understanding of requirements in… Continue reading

  • My Silent Miscarriage Story

    Amayah Nevaeh Gomez I have been writing this as the journey progresses. I wrote it for me at first, knowing that writing my story would bring healing, not sure if I would share. I knew it would help me heal… Continue reading

  • Trauma and Suicide

    Childhood trauma has been associated with an increased risk of deteriorated mental health, including suicidal ideation, suicide completion, physical diseases, and psychological diseases (Rieger et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2022). Childhood trauma can affect resilience by shutting down the thinking… Continue reading

  • Traumatology

    To develop a thorough understanding of traumatology, a summary of the general understanding of the nature and causes of trauma will be explained. Additionally, a specific type of event that can result in a trauma-related disorder will be discussed. Special… Continue reading

  • Movie Review: The Cokeville Miracle

    The Review  The Cokeville Miracle is the true story of an event that occurred on May 16, 1986, in an elementary school of Cokeville, WY. Doris and David Young decided that was the day they would enter the elementary school… Continue reading

  • Book Review: “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog” by Bruce Perry

    Summary The boy who was raised as a dog by Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz is a book which summarizes a psychiatrists’ most important cases for the purposes of learning what the children can teach us about loss, love, and learning (2017).… Continue reading

  • Movie Review: “Room”

    Room is a movie about a teenage girl, Joy, who is kidnapped and forced to live in a soundproof shed for seven years. During her time there she becomes pregnant by her captor. The movie is set during a time… Continue reading

  • Addictions Case Study

    Case Conceptualization Brief Summary Marci, a 22-year-old female college student, is undergoing therapy after being arrested for driving while impaired (DWI) five months prior. She had a 0.13 alcohol level and was also found to be in possession of about… Continue reading

  • Treatment Plan – PTSD

    Treatment Plan Problem: Posttraumatic Stress DisorderSecondary Problem: Domestic Violence Survivors – FemaleAdapted from The Group Therapy Treatment Planner, with DSM-5 Updates Second Edition By Kim Paleg and Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr.  Counselor: Nora Gomez  Population and demographics of group: This posttraumatic… Continue reading

  • Miami-Dade Community Needs Analysis

    A community mental health needs and resources assessment was conducted for the purpose of becoming familiar with the overall mental health needs in the Miami-Dade County community. The most pressing local mental health needs were assessed along with a focus… Continue reading

  • Case Study Treatment Strategy

    The community counseling model is utilized to develop a plan of action that will assist a family in moving toward healing and recovery. Two counseling sessions have been conducted and based on the information gleaned, a cohesive treatment strategy has… Continue reading

  • The Trauma Brain 

    The concepts of brain functioning and neurobiological aspects of trauma presented in Uhernik (2017) are insightful and thorough. The author provides a basic understanding of brain structure and function with its relation to psychology and trauma therapy in an outside-the-box… Continue reading

  • Personal “Working” Theory of Counseling

    A working theory merging Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CPT), Attachment Theory (AT), and Christian psychology will be described along with an integration model based on the Christianity integrates psychology approach (Tan, 2011). The eclectic theory developed merges the importance of cognitions… Continue reading

  • Cognitive Processing Therapy

    Today, many are enduring the constraints and hardship of trauma. The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (2019) state that about 8 million people in the United States have Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) any given year and claim this is a… Continue reading