Week 1- Assignment

My Research Topic is  “Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)”. 

Focus Topic and References

[WLO:3] [CLO: 6]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read

Section 1.4

of the Newman (2016) textbook, view the instructional tutorials embedded in the How to Locate Scholarly Articles quiz (

A Digital Library (Links to an external site.)

,

Keywords Are Critical (Links to an external site.)

,

Database Search Tips (Links to an external site.)

, and

Help! Need an Article! (Links to an external site.)

), view the

Evaluating Sources (Links to an external site.)

tutorial in the Ashford University Library, and read

Developing a Topic (Links to an external site.)

in the

Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)

. Part of the preparation work for applying the scientific method is to define the research topic and learn what is already known about it, based on previous research.

Using the topic you selected for the Week 1 discussion, go to the Ashford University Library and find three scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic. Download the full-text PDF of each article and save them on your computer.

In this paper, you will describe your research topic, identify the articles you found, and discuss what you think each article says about your topic. Upload the PDFs of the articles with your assignment in Waypoint.

For this assignment,

• Describe the chosen research topic.
• Identify three scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles from the Ashford University Library that directly relate to the topic. Read each with the intent of understanding what it reflects about your topic.
• Evaluate how each article relates to your topic.
• Properly cite all articles within your paper. (For assistance see the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.))
• Upload the full text PDFs of the articles with your paper.

The Focus Topic and References paper

• Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate title page with the following:

  Title of paper
  Student’s name
  Course name and number
  Instructor’s name
  Date submitted
  For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

• Must use at least three scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles.

  The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the 

Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)

for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your

Running Head: POSTTRAMAUTIC STRESS DISORDER 1

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Casey O’Neill

PSY326: Research Methods

Instructor: Steven Schneider

Ashford University

Date submitted: 26th Jan, 2020

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POSTTRAMAUTIC STRESS DISORDER

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People who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reports a higher level of

dissatisfaction across dynamic life domains such as occupational functioning, social, and

physical health functioning. Previous research evidence asserts that quality of the life of those

suffering from PTSD improves with tandem with the signs enhancement during both

pharmacological and psychological treatment. Nonetheless, a lot of the study is mostly funded on

the quality of life including the mental as well as physical health quality of life evaluated by

measures including short form health survey. Personal wellbeing is popularly referred to as the

subjective dimension of the quality of life.

Besides, physical as well as mental health domain, the view of personal welling relates to

the range of dimension such as perception of an individual standard of living, quality of personal

relationship as well as life achievements. Other determinants includes perceived safety, future

security as well as community engagement.

Additionally, the concept of the personal wellbeing assumes the possibilities that a person

may thrive instead of just lacking disability. More so, there remains absence of the study that has

applied measures touching on a broad range of domains for personal wellbeing in treatment

of the individuals abstaining treatment from PTSD including relationship satisfaction and

perceived safety among other factors (Berle et al. 2018).

Most of the studies that has been investigating changes taking place after PTSD treatment

on life satisfaction as well as personal wellbeing have primarily focused on a particular including

spiritual wellbeing. Understanding the process of PSTD treatment is for instance there is also an

increasing evidence that holds symptomatic improvement increases following the treatment

however it is not clear if this applies to the personal wellness as well (Berle et al. 2018). The

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1. reports

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Schneider]

2. higher level of

dissatisfaction across

dynamic life domains such

as occupational

functioning, social, and

physical health functioning.

Cite your source. [Steven

Schneider]

3. Previous research

evidence asserts that

quality of the life of those

suffering from PTSD

improves with tandem with

the signs enhancement

during both

pharmacological and

psychological treatment.

Cite this research. [Steven

Schneider]

4.

What does this mean?

[Steven Schneider]

5. a lot of the study

What study? [Steven

Schneider]

6. Personal wellbeing is

popularly referred to as the

subjective dimension of the

quality of life.

Cite your source. [Steven
Schneider]

7. Besides, physical as well

as mental health domain,

What are these domains and

what is their significance?

[Steven Schneider]

8. Other determinants

includes perceived safety,

future

security as well as

community engagement.

Cite your source. [Steven
Schneider]

9. the concept of the personal wellbeing assumes the possibilities that

a person may thrive instead of just lacking disability.

Used the words or ideas of others without properly citing the source; did not

use quotation as required by the APA; in addition, this is not in your own

words and can be considered to be plagiarized. [Steven Schneider]

10. there remains absence of the study

What does this mean? [Steven Schneider]

11. Most of the studies

Are you sure?

Cite your source. [Steven Schneider]

12. Understanding the process of PSTD treatment is for instance there

is also an

Wording and sentence structure error. This makes it difficult to understand

what you intended to say. [Steven Schneider]

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purpose of this investigation was to find out if a 4 week residential group treatment of PTSD is

related to the improvement of personal wellbeing together with the symptoms of PTSD.

The study also holds that the level of wellbeing in people with PTSD is always low and

the treatment should not focus on PTSD symptomatic treatment alone. The focus should be on

their general life and wellbeing. The journal also holds that the future study or research should

focus on most effective means of improving personal wellbeing which might be enhancing

symptoms or emphasizing on the approaches which has a separate focus.

The 21st century started in array of peace and hope. The worldwide prosperity was

believed to start with the new millennium and more so few years ago most people in the world

spoke primarily off peace. However, today majority of world population are in fear and anxiety

about the self as well as the neighbor. Socio political event has displayed a shadow of uneasiness

bout the security affecting people at both societal and personal level. For instance Greg, a

business man in California took a flight and he barely survived in the eventful incident of 9/11.

Later Greg tried to contact his anxious family who were in hock and denial. The event affected

Greg and up today he does not travel frequently. Traumatic incidents are awfully stressful. The

kind of stress that are related to the traumatic incidents precipitates a

spectrum of both physio-

pathological as well as psycho emotional outcome. At its highest point the response is diagnosed

as psychiatric disorder.

PTSD is the psychiatric condition or disorder which result from experience or witnessing

of the life threatening event including terrorist attacks, military combat, natural disaster, violent

crime as well as abuse and serious accident among many other events. Individual; suffering from

PTSD in most cases relieve the experience by the help of flashback and nightmares among other

forms (Iribarren et al. 2005). Most of PTSD patients report difficulty in sleeping at with time the

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1. purpose of this

investigation was to find

out if a 4 week residential

group treatment of PTSD is

related to the improvement

of personal wellbeing

together with the symptoms

of PTSD.

Wording and sentence

structure error. This makes it

difficult to understand what

you intended to say. [Steven

Schneider]

2. The 21 st century started

in array of peace and hope.

The worldwide prosperity

was

believed to start with the

new millennium and more

so few years ago most

people in the world spoke

primarily off peace.

Used the words or ideas of

others without properly citing

the source; did not use

quotation as required by the

APA; in addition, this is not in

your

own words and can be

considered to be plagiarized.

[Steven Schneider]

3. However, today majority

of world population are in

fear and anxiety

about the self as well as the

neighbor. Socio political

event has displayed a

shadow of uneasiness bout

the security affecting

people at both societal and

personal level.

Used the words or ideas of
others without properly citing
the source; did not use
quotation as required by the
APA; in addition, this is not in
your own words and can be
considered to be plagiarized.
[Steven Schneider]

4. Traumatic incidents are awfully stressful. The

kind of stress that are related to the traumatic incidents precipitates a

spectrum of both physio-

pathological as well as psycho emotional outcome. At its highest point

the response is diagnosed as psychiatric disorder.

Used the words or ideas of others without properly citing the source; did not
use quotation as required by the APA; in addition, this is not in your own

words and can be considered to be plagiarized.

Cite your source. [Steven Schneider]

5. by the help of flashback and nightmares

Wording or spelling error. [Steven Schneider]

POSTTRAMAUTIC STRESS DISORDER 4

grow detached and this accelerated by the associated conditions such as substance use, problem

of memory and cognition and depression. With time the disorder result to the impairment of the

ability to relate or w function in the social life leading to occupational instability, difficulty in

parenting, marital problems as well as divorce and family discord. The condition can become

severe leading to the victim

committing suicide.

Posttraumatic disorder happens to be a primary mental condition or illness and it is

increasingly becoming a public health problem (Ghaffarzadegan, Ebrahimvandi, & Jalali, 2016).

According to the article besides disorders related to the PTSD among the military and veteran

personnel and the recent improvement in diagnosis and treatment little is known in regard to the

policies initiated for prevention of this disorder.

The knowledge related to the PTSD has improved over the last forty years but

implementation of policies to reduce or minimize this cases is limited. In most cases coming up

with the policies faces a lot of barrier because the challenge of PTSD is taken as a single

organizational challenge, however this is a fallacy because it’s a multi organizational challenge.

For instance, the patient’s family, community, colleague, neighborhoods and employers are

always involved in this tragedy. The problem is always complex due to the long delays between

the cause and the effects.

Conclusively, military personnel are always seen to be strong people and therefore, they

are always served the last. However, the sector of military is challenging this people including

the veteran seem to have had awful experiences. Most of them are always reluctant to share

leading to PTSD after a traumatic event including military combat.

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1. grow detached and this

accelerated by the

associated conditions such

as substance use, problem

of memory and cognition

and depression.

Wording and sentence
structure error. This makes it
difficult to understand what
you intended to say. [Steven
Schneider]

2. With time the disorder

result to the impairment of

the ability to relate or w

function in the social life

leading to occupational

instability, difficulty in

parenting, marital problems

as well as divorce and

family discord. The

condition can become

severe leading to the victim

committing suicide.
Cite your source. [Steven
Schneider]

3. Posttraumatic disorder

happens to be a primary

mental condition or illness

and it is

increasingly becoming a

public health problem

Did not use quotation as

required by the APA; in

addition, this is not in your

own words and can be
considered to be plagiarized.
[Steven Schneider]

4. The knowledge related to

the PTSD has improved

over the last forty years but

implementation of policies

to reduce or minimize this

cases is limited. In most

cases coming up with the

policies faces a lot of

barrier because the

challenge of PTSD is taken

as a single

organizational challenge,

however this is a fallacy

because it’s a multi

organizational challenge.

Cite your source. [Steven
Schneider]

5. Conclusively,

What does this mean?
[Steven Schneider]

6. this people

Wording or spelling error. [Steven Schneider]

7. including

the veteran seem to have had awful experiences. Most of them are

always reluctant to share

leading to PTSD after a traumatic event including military combat.
Cite your source. [Steven Schneider]

POSTTRAMAUTIC STRESS DISORDER 5

References

Berle, D., Hilbrink, D., Russell-Williams, C., Kiely, R., Hardaker, L., Garwood, N., … & Steel,

Z. (2018). Personal wellbeing in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): association with

PTSD symptoms during and following treatment. BMC psychology, 6(1), 7.

Ghaffarzadegan, N., Ebrahimvandi, A., & Jalali, M. S. (2016). A dynamic model of post-

traumatic stress disorder for military personnel and veterans. PloS one, 11(10).

Iribarren, J., Prolo, P., Neagos, N., & Chiappelli, F. (2005). Post-traumatic stress disorder:

evidence-based research for the third millennium. Evidence-Based Complementary and

Alternative Medicine, 2(4), 503-512.

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Casey, please see the feedback within your paper and in the scoring rubric.

Describe the chosen research topic. You made a good start, but did not fully address all the below parts detailed in the instructions and grading criteria.
Remember, come up with a specific subject you want to study? In other words, what about your topic do you want to study? What is it about the topic that
interests you the most?

Evaluate how each article relates to your topic.

Important: I found that your paper has some parts that are similar to your Turnitin report and are not in your own words. Even more important, by not citing and
quoting your sources in correct APA format, it can be considered plagiarized. Please work on avoiding copying from your sources. You can’t earn credit for
plagiarized material. Please see what I attached below. It will help explain the grade you received.

Please work on correcting the writing errors throughout your paper. See the examples I gave.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Dr. S

( 0.64 / 1.00) Describes the Chosen Research Topic

Below Expectations – Attempts to describe the research topic; however, significant details are missing and unclear.
Comments:
Can you take what you started and come up with a specific subject you want to study? In other words, what about your topic do you want to study? What is it
about the topic that interests you the most?

( 0.64 / 1.00) Evaluates how Each Article Relates to the Topic

Below Expectations – Attempts to evaluate the relevance of the articles; however, does not include evidence that supports the position, and/or significant details
are missing.
Comments:
While you discussed what was in these articles, you did not provide an evaluation of how useful each article would be in studying your topic.

( 0.32 / 0.50) Written Communication: Control of Syntax and Mechanics

Below Expectations – Fails to display basic comprehension of syntax or mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains major errors which
distract the reader.
Comments:
Some of this paper is copied from your sources.

( 0.16 / 0.25) Written Communication: APA Formatting

Below Expectations – Fails to exhibit basic knowledge of APA formatting. There are frequent errors, making the layout difficult to distinguish as APA.

( 0.22 / 0.25) Written Communication: Page Requirement

Proficient – The length of the paper is nearly equivalent to the required number of correctly formatted pages.

( 1.76 / 2.00) Written Communication: Resource Requirement

Proficient – Uses the required number of scholarly sources to support ideas. All sources on the reference page are used and cited correctly within the body of the
assignment.
Overall Score: 3.74 / 5.00
Overall Grade: 3.74

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