The Beneficial Effect of Psychological Counseling

The Beneficial Effect of Psychological Counseling for Traumatic Event Victims
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The Beneficial Effect of Psychological Counseling for Traumatic Event Victims
Introduction
One of the cornerstone pillars of healthcare is to improve the quality of human life. In most cases, delivery of healthcare services ends with the doctor’s diagnosis of an illness and prescription of medicine. However, while this approach may be sufficient in treating mild symptoms and common infections, it may not be effective for severe and life-threatening cases. This is a problem in healthcare because although medical treatments may heal physical injuries, patients may have to endure emotional and mental pain for the rest of their lives. For instance, rape victims experience stigmatization which affects their emotional, cognitive, and social development (Edna, et al. 1991). Other examples involve accident victims who lose their limbs, prisoners of war, combatant soldiers and people who experience traumatic events (Helzer, et al., 1987). The common factor in all these cases is that the subjects usually experience post-traumatic stress (Bradley, et al., 2005). Consequently, they might find it difficult to adjust to new life situations or assume normal lives after treatments for physical injuries. Such patients may experience post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms like stress, depression, anxiety and other psychological disorders.
In this regard, it is of high medical interest to explore the beneficial effect of psychological counseling for patients who experience traumatic events. The aim of the research study is to find out how well counseled trauma victims adjust to life after treatment of physical injuries compared to those who do not undergo psychological counseling.
Research question
How well do traumatic event victims who undergo psychological counseling adjust to life post-treatment compared to those who do not?
Population of traumatic event victims
Many people always deal with post traumatic natures. For example, war victims, rape victims, to those wounded in car accidents. Research shows that these incidences though ignored and overlooked, may inspire distraught population. Due to human nature’s pliability, most do recover and go on with their lives. By taking minor steps, traumatized persons transform their lives to a life full of events and uncovering their personalities. Most of the population is characterized by fear, agitation, and depression that can disrupt the patient’s life. Up to 15% of Americans suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that reoccurs to the individuals inform of recollections, hallucinations, commemorations or frightening thoughts in the process of recovery. Though, this reoccurrence that remind them of their past trauma occurs when they are subjected to a similar circumstance that led to their trauma. Posttraumatic stress disorder is always diagnosed for the majority of the population when it has surpassed a month after the incident (Dan, 2011).
The majority of the people are still having wounds of what they had experienced in the past, and the number continues to grow. And the post-traumatic growth has been largely accepted by a larger population especially those who assumed the process. After undergoing a post-traumatic counseling, they said that they lived more encouraging lives.
This gives an insight that those who undergo post-traumatic treatment benefit more by appreciating their lives than those who do not. Thus, the process should mainly be accepted as a treatment after trauma (Dan, 2011).
Intervention through psychological counseling
In trying to understand why well traumatic events victims adjust well in life after treatment compared to those who do not, looking at the psychological counseling process would show the reason why those who undergo the treatment adjust to life more easily than those who do not.
An individual is in a position to know that he has traumatic stress if: the person is incredulous and unable to handle his/her emotional response to the event or the person experiences extreme fear, defenselessness, loss of control, or threat to life or psychological damage (Blackledge, 2009).
In order to experience the healing process from psychological and emotional distress, the victim is expected to face and show firmness for the unbearable emotions and memories that have been avoided overtime. Or else, the emotions keep on coming back over and over, unbidden and irrepressible.
The process of psychological counsel involves:
Treating trauma-related memoirs and feelings
Quitting restrained “fight-or flight” vigor.
Learning how to control strong emotions
Rebuilding the ability to trust other people again
These processes are all dependent on the personal strength and determination to overcome postt...