2. PTSD-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder AM Myers PEARLS Hawthorne School ammyers@pearls.ypschools.org

3. AIM: What is PTSD?

4. GROUP DISCUSSION:THINK, PAIR, SHARE  Define Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Discuss your opinions with your group members

5. DEFINITIONS  Stress: mental, emotional, or physical strain caused by; anxiety, worry, concern  Trauma: an extremely distressing experience that causes severe emotional shock and may have long-lasting psychological effects  PTSD: Post-traumatic stress disorder is a type of anxiety disorder that's triggered by a traumatic event. You can develop PTSD when you experience or witness an event that causes intense fear, helplessness or horror.

6. PTSD CAUSES  Discuss for a moment with your group the causes.  Share with the class what your GROUP feels are the causes for PTSD.

7. PPA FORMAT & EVALUATION  Evaluate the current policy on treatments for PTSD using the PPA format  Using the following worksheet determine if the current policy is effective and what can we do to improve this policy.  Policy worksheet #4 (Examining existing public policy) Policy worksheet

8. WHAT CAN BE DONE?  Veterans can attend therapy sessions at the VA hospital  Check out work/school/community therapeutic resources  Take stress management classes  Certain drugs/medicines can help elevate some symptoms of the disorder

9. NEW POLICY CREATION  From your review of the existing policy create a new policy, using the following worksheet.  WORK SHEET #6 (Selecting the best public policy solution) WORK SHEET

10. ADVOCACY CHAMPAIGN  Create a poster campaign that tells others what the new policy is going to be.  Your poster should be INFORMATIVE, as well as CREATIVE!  Follow the directions & you will be graded using a standard poster rubrics

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