Family Houston, according to its website, has been serving residents since the early 1900s and is currently offering free counseling services for veterans and their family members suffering from PTSD
claim about 6 out of every 100 people i.e., 6% of the population, will have PTSD at some point in their life, and about 12 million adults have gone through PTSD during a given year.
"I mean, children as young as babies, for example, that have medical trauma, that have went through the NICU journey, the new Intensive Care Unit, for example, can develop PTSD symptoms," he explained. "And of course, those who are in car accidents, we had Hurricane Harvey several years ago, PTSD can result from that - sexual assault and rape victims, for example, physical violence and multiple elements can lead to PTSD.
"Part of this culturally sensitive therapy and counseling is really to kind of honor that and to learn more about their culture to assess to explore more and then from there to make counseling decisions and counseling, treatment strategies and modalities that are based on their culture," Lorn explained.
"We have to really be kind of have our heartbeat with the current state that we're living in and not kind of compare, okay, 20 years ago, 30 years ago to today because that's not an apples and apples comparison is really different, you have to contextualize to the timeframe that we're living in now," he explained. "And most people did not live through a pandemic, in the currents of our current climate that we're living in now.
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