Psychology and Psychotherapy

It is a development of certain characterized symptoms after exposure to one or more traumatic events.  It can be actual or threatened death or severe injury or any sexual violence. PTSD individuals may have the below symptoms: Exposure and Experience of a traumatic situation. Recurring, Involuntary, and Intrusive distressing memories (nightmares, flashbacks, fearful thoughts and etc). Psychological distress Physiological reactions Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with a traumatic situation. Distorted cognitions Negative emotional state The diminished interest of activities Feelings of detachment Inability to experience positive emotions Hypervigilance, Irritated, anxious Sleep and Appetite disturbance Summary : It can happen to anyone after experiencing a traumatic event that causes hurtful, shocked, and extremely fearful, ultimately they feel helplessness.   These patients are at with increas

Most of the parents eagerly wait for their baby to say a few words such as calling them mama, papa and etc.  This usually we see in the children between nine (9) months and a year.  By the time, the child reaches two (2)  years, he or she should be using simple phrases and at the age of 3 years, the child should start speaking full sentences.  Grammatical mistakes even though we observe at the age of four, the child must be able to speak sentences. This means the child should have acquired basic language by the age of 5 years.  Language acquisition takes place in 6 stages: -           Prelinguistic (1 st year of life) -           Holophrase or one word (between the age of 10 and 13 months) -           Two-word sentence (18 months) -           Multiple-word sentences -           Complex grammatical structures -           Adult-like language Let’s understand this, the more toddlers exposed to the complex and rich conversation, the better cognitive and language