Article: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/ foster alumni
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:34 am
Former Foster Children in Washington and Oregon Suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at Twice the Rate of U.S. War Veterans, According to New Study
http://www.casey.org/MediaCenter/PressR ... iStudy.htm
This may be just another scheme to funnel money into the pockets of shrinks, but there is obviously a lot of validity to it, because the parents also suffer the same symptoms.
I had read about PTSD when researching "Workplace Bullying," which I found by doing a search for "emotional abuse," because of my work situation. Social services uses many of the same techniques used in 'workplace bullying.'
Many of the sites on this topic come from England and Australia, and they talk in the style of 'bloody this and bloody that.' They have passed laws against it in some European countries. I finally found an Americanized, sanitized, government publication on this phenomenon on the Center for Disease Control website, NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
The publication is called, Stress at Work.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/stresswk.html
Quoted below:
"What is Job Stress?
Job stress can be defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. Job stress can lead to poor health and even injury.
The concept of job stress is often confused with challenge, but these concepts are not the same. Challenge energizes us psychologically and physically, and it motivates us to learn new skills and master our jobs. When a challenge is met, we feel relaxed and satisfied. Thus, challenge is an important ingredient for healthy and productive work. The importance of challenge in our work lives is probably what people are referring to when they say "a little bit of stress is good for you."
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(I have quoted this on a statement for an Unemployment Claim.)
All of the above can be said for any foster care service plan, based on what I have seen.
The two basic elements of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are:
Unpredictible situation,
and Uncontrollable situation.
A foster care plan says, predict your situation and control your situation, while at the same time we will predict your situation and we will control your situation.
The same is true for the children.
After a while they start to float or become detached. They give up control and run on automatic pilot. They start to lose their conscience. It goes into Reactive Attachment Disorder, which is a related condition needing another forum page.
Becoming detached and floating is a very frightening experience. The front part of the brain involved in planning shuts down, and the more primitive back part of the brain takes over, doing unpredictible things in order to survive. It happens during war to military people and civilians alike.
http://www.casey.org/MediaCenter/PressR ... iStudy.htm
This may be just another scheme to funnel money into the pockets of shrinks, but there is obviously a lot of validity to it, because the parents also suffer the same symptoms.
I had read about PTSD when researching "Workplace Bullying," which I found by doing a search for "emotional abuse," because of my work situation. Social services uses many of the same techniques used in 'workplace bullying.'
Many of the sites on this topic come from England and Australia, and they talk in the style of 'bloody this and bloody that.' They have passed laws against it in some European countries. I finally found an Americanized, sanitized, government publication on this phenomenon on the Center for Disease Control website, NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
The publication is called, Stress at Work.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/stresswk.html
Quoted below:
"What is Job Stress?
Job stress can be defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. Job stress can lead to poor health and even injury.
The concept of job stress is often confused with challenge, but these concepts are not the same. Challenge energizes us psychologically and physically, and it motivates us to learn new skills and master our jobs. When a challenge is met, we feel relaxed and satisfied. Thus, challenge is an important ingredient for healthy and productive work. The importance of challenge in our work lives is probably what people are referring to when they say "a little bit of stress is good for you."
- - - - -- - - - -- -- -- - - - - - - - -
(I have quoted this on a statement for an Unemployment Claim.)
All of the above can be said for any foster care service plan, based on what I have seen.
The two basic elements of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are:
Unpredictible situation,
and Uncontrollable situation.
A foster care plan says, predict your situation and control your situation, while at the same time we will predict your situation and we will control your situation.
The same is true for the children.
After a while they start to float or become detached. They give up control and run on automatic pilot. They start to lose their conscience. It goes into Reactive Attachment Disorder, which is a related condition needing another forum page.
Becoming detached and floating is a very frightening experience. The front part of the brain involved in planning shuts down, and the more primitive back part of the brain takes over, doing unpredictible things in order to survive. It happens during war to military people and civilians alike.