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CIVILIAN CASE STUDY
Civilian Case Study
Janelka Williams
School of Behavior Sciences, Liberty University
TRMA830: Assessment and Testing in the Treatment of Trauma (B01)
Professor- Clay Peters
September 10, 2023
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CIVILIAN CASE STUDY
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Brief Summary
Rose is a 38-year-old married mother of three children (9, 7, and 2-years-old), and works
full-time as pharmaceutical representative to various doctors and medical practices in her region.
She typically drives anywhere between 700 to 1000 miles per week in a company-provided car.
She is in good health, likes to run on her days off, and generally enjoys working in her yard and
garden.
Rose had some traumatic experiences in her childhood, her family moved around a lot
due to her father being in the diplomatic core of the State Department. A bombing just feet away
from where she was staying and seeing dead bodies and blood everywhere, a 7.1 earthquake a
couple years later, where she was dragged out to the middle of the street and glass crashing
everywhere, and just a few years after that witnessing a demonstration where folks were beaten
and arrested in front of her.
Those scenarios alone should have caused major PTSD side effects that maybe she has
not opened up about, or even remembered or realized she was having. Then you have this major
accident where she feels crushed, like she could not three her neck was twisted, and she worried
about dying and never seeing her family again for 30 minutes until she was rescued. I often say
that old trauma brings a new trauma. And although we don't hear much about those traumatic
