Impact of Traumatic Injuries on Patients and Their Families
aking (13th edition) by Dr. Stephen E. Lucas.)
In this week’s reading, you learned that the first step in the whole speechmaking process is choosing a topic. For the most part, interesting topics usually make interesting speeches. The reading gives details on several approaches you can take in your quest to find a great topic. You can select a topic you know a lot about, or choose a topic you want to learn more about. You can further determine an exact topic through several different brainstorming methods (personal inventory, clustering, or internet search).
The assignment this week takes a creative approach, so be sure to follow all five (5) steps.
Step 1: Using the personal inventory, list ten (10) things from your experiences, interests, hobbies, skills, beliefs, etc., that will help you as you determine a good informative speech topic. (NOTE: An informative speech is meant only to educate/teach the audience something.)
Step 2: Select two (2) topics from the finished list in Step 1.
Step 3: Combining ideas from Step 2, come up with three (3) possible topics for an informative speech.
Step 4: Determine a final speech topic.
Ste 5: Write a snapshot of how to characterize the final topic from Step 4.
Use the “Example of a Topic Selection Exercise” guide to structure your writing assignment. Click this link for the guide Download Click this link for the guide.
What and How to Submit:
Submit a Word document. Do not submit a PDF.
Upload your submission to Canvas using the “Submit Assignment” link in the top, right-hand corner of the page. Your submission should meet the following criteria:
Length: Follow all five steps. See the “Example of a Topic Selection Exercise” PDF below.
Writing Mechanics: Submission is free from spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.
Formatting: APA formatting is used (12-point font, such as Times New Roman or Helvetica; 1" margins all around; the text is aligned only on the left side of the page.)
Organization: The “Example of a Topic Selection Exercise Download Example of a Topic Selection Exercise” guide is utilized [Link to PDF].
APA: Support your brainstorming idea with one source. All material is cited (in-text or parenthetical citations are used) and written fully as a reference at the bottom. Center the word “Reference” (without quotation marks), then list the source you used. NOTE: Do not use Wikipedia, videos, blogs, or any social media.
Week 3 Informative Essay: Impact of Traumatic Injuries on Patients and their Families
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Traumatic injuries can lead to psychological stress in victims. This psychological stress may influence the patient's well-being, health, and overall life quality. Recovery from a traumatic injury takes an extended timescale and is normally incomplete. Healthcare providers often miss or discount psychological trauma linked to traumatic injuries when evaluating the patient clinically. Interestingly, a personal encounter with trauma, directly or indirectly witnessing a traumatic injury or event sustained by a loved one, can have far-reaching mental health implications for the person. Different reactions are normally recorded or reported after the traumatic injury. Traumatic injuries have adverse implications for patients and their families because they lead to negative emotional reactions, emotional dysregulation, intrusive memories, and thoughts, as well as long-term detrimental ramifications such as depression.
The patient is likely to experience emotional reactions after a traumatic injury. Emotional responses can vary significantly and are greatly influenced by the patient's sociocultural background. Apart from the original emotional reactions after getting the injury, the patient is likely to develop feelings of embarrassment, sorrow, fear, as well as anger. However, patients could have problems recognizing such feelings for specific rationales. In addition, the patient might lack previous experience with suppressing emotions within their community or family. In this vein, patients will likely form a strong relationship between expressing feelings with a previous traumatic event (Weis et al., 2022). Therefore, they will believe that emotional suppression may result in feeling out of control of their situation. In other circumstances, the patient will deny having any feelings due to the traumatic injury, thus choosing to be numb or show a lack of emotions for their situation.
The patient may also develop emotional dysregulation. Emotional regulation is a construct entailing the ability to (a) be aware, understand, and accept emotions, (b) control impulse behavioral tendencies and foster goal-driven behavior when encountering undesirable emotions, (c) be flexible in using non-avoidant, context-appropriate approaches to control the duration and intensity of the emotional response to meet personal objectives as well as situational expectations, and (d) willingness to persevere undesirable emotions to pursue meaningful life trajectories. A deficit in any of the above-delineated abilities refers to emotional dysregulation (Forbes et al., 2020). Although individuals may react differently after a traumatic injury, emotional responses include anxiety, sadness, confusion, depression, blunted affect, and dissociation. Emotional regulation is the complex process via which the individual expresses and experiences emotions. Dysregulation may depict deteriorated bottom-up decoding of emotionally crucial information (e.g., difficulties identifying emotions) or maladaptive top-down emotions control (e.g., problem engaging the necessary coping str...