• Question: Have you ever treated a shell shocked solider?

    Asked by anon-315999 on 1 Apr 2022.
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      Jamie Chan answered on 14 Mar 2022:

      Hi! That’s very interesting question but I’m a social psychologist, which means that I don’t deliver treatments to people – those are clinical psychologists! Social psychologists study how people behave and why they behave that way.

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      Hannah Howman answered on 14 Mar 2022:

      Similar to Jamie, I work in a different area of psychology so I don’t treat people but rather study how they behave. I hope another psychologist here can answer this question better.

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      Reece Bush-Evans answered on 14 Mar 2022:

      Interesting question, I haven’t treated anyone with shell shock, however, I have interacted with individuals with PTSD before. It can be super challenging.

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      Nadine Mirza answered on 17 Mar 2022:

      Yes! I once worked in a hospital in Pakistan- which is where my family is. At the hospital I worked in the men’s ward and I was part of a team looking after an older man who used to be in the Pakistani army. He would have vivid flashbacks of his time fighting and if there was a sudden or loud sound he would hide under his bed. This turned out to be shell shock or what is known today as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

      I didn’t give him in any therapy but when it was my turn to check in on him it was just to speak to him calmly, get him to talk to me about how he was feeling, and make him feel safe and comfortable.

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      Michelle Newman answered on 18 Mar 2022:

      I haven’t, as I predominantly do research work, and with individuals who have had brain injuries rather than PTSD. However, this is the area that a colleague of mine works in. Hopefully the research she is doing will inform how practitioner psychologists and therapists can help those who do suffer from it.

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