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Blake Caudill
Mrs. DeBock
English 4
18 February 2016
Essential Question: Can problems be helped via therapy?
Working Thesis: Problems can be help through therapy because talking about things will usually
ease peoples minds.
Refined Thesis: Problems can be helped through therapy and other methods due to the
psychological studies done and scientists finding more and more successful methods to help the
patients mind and bodies.
Annotated Bibliography
"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)." : Symptoms, Treatment and Self-Help for PTSD. Web.
18 Feb. 2016.
This article expresses the difference between trauma and PTSD. It is a rough overview
and explains the risk factors and gives helpful tips on how to deal with it. It gives a more in
depth look into the different treatments and how to find which treatment is best for you. It states
what to do if a loved one has it also. It states how to find the best therapist for you and what
exactly a professional therapist will help with. It states the difference a therapist can make rather
than just self-help. This article will help me find what kind of method should I shadow and how
to help those with PTSD.

"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder." NIMH RSS. Web. 16 Feb. 2016.

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This article gives symptoms of those suffering from PTSD. It states what people are most
likely to contract this and when. It gives risk factors and tells what to avoid if you begin to
experience these symptoms. It gives re-experiencing symptoms and reactive symptoms. These
change over time and many times these symptoms only occur roughly once a month so being on
the lookout is extra important. It also gives a list of many triggers. This article will help me find
the symptoms of PTSD and what the many risk factors are.

"Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Anxiety and Depression Association of America,

ADAA." Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Anxiety and Depression Association of
America, ADAA. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.
This articles gives insight on what PTSD can cause problems for in everyday life. It lists
which other diseases can link with PTSD and shows that the problems many can have once they
contract this disease. It effects their everyday lives and current relationships with friends and
family. This article is focused on how victims of PTSD struggle everyday with it. It discusses the
circular pattern that PTSD patients fall into and continually ruin their relationships. This article
gives me not only a list of facts but how it effects their everyday life.

"PTSD: National Center for PTSD." Treatment of PTSD -. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.
This article is all about how to treat patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It gives
several examples of the most commonly used therapies. It states the most commonly used
methods that therapists use while applying these methods and what most people should expect
from their therapy. It gives a diagnostic test for those who believe to have PTSD. Gives a list of
many problems that can be expected with those that have PTSD and what they can do to solve

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said problems. Also gives advice for both professionals and public so I can see both sides. This
article will give my basis on what exactly is PTSD and what measures can be taken to stop it.

Thompson, Mark. "Unlocking The Secrets Of PTSD." Time 185.12 (2015): 40-43. Academic
Search Premier. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.
Thompson goes into a more science approach of what exactly is PTSD. Many drugs that
work for certain people will not work for others. The solution that scientist came up with is to go
straight to the brain. The fear and anxiety circuits within the brain seem to be overly reactive
whenever there is a trigger to come up. Scientists cannot figure out why, but they are looking for
a reason. They believe if they can understand it on a chemical level then it will allow for better
treatment than therapy ever could. The consequence of not treating PTSD properly can lead to
substance abuse or worse so scientist would prefer get it down to an exact science. This article
will help me learn about PTSD scientifically and on a cellular level.

Watts, Bradley V., et al. "Understanding And Meeting Information Needs For Patients With
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." BMC Psychiatry 16.(2016): 1-7. Academic Search
Premier. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.
Watts does a case study on one hundred PTSD patients all coming from different
backgrounds. This focused on the veterans with PTSD but still provides a lot of background for
how patients react to multiple types of methods. All patients were consulted also with how they
wanted to be treated. They wished to know what methods were being used and information about
the treatments being administered to them. The most preferred methods the patients said were the
most commonly used methods that therapists used. These methods were also the most effective

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and most were helped as a result. This article will help me by giving me a real case study on
PTSD patients and show me what PTSD patients are like and prefer.