Question

Watch this talk and respond to the questions below. Please use complete sentences and answer the questions thoughtfully.

Art can heal PSTD's invisible wound

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1. According to the site, what do you know about Melissa Walker, the speaker of the talk?

2. What is PTSD? What are other words/terms for PTSD that have been used over the years?  

3. Why does Walker talk about her grandfather?

4. Why does Walker mention her first job as an art therapist?

5. What impact can art therapy have, according to Walker?

6. Click the "Transcript" tab and find two direct quotations from the talk that you find to be meaningful and representative of the subject matter. Use signal phrases to set up the quotes, quote accurately, and then explain what each quote means, using your own words.

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Answer 1

1) Let's first talk about Melissa Walker his profession and interests: Melissa Walker is a creative arts therapist at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, a directorate of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She works with active duty service members suffering from traumatic brain injury and psychological health conditions. Dedicated to helping recovering service members safely express their deep thoughts and emotions in a creative environment, Walker designed the Healing Arts Program at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence in 2010, where she engages her patients in mask-making, a powerful mechanism for helping them express their invisible wounds. Walker received her Master's Degree in art therapy from New York University.

2) Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, rape or other violent personal assault. People with PTSD have intense, disturbing thoughts and feelings related to their experience that last long after the traumatic event has ended. They may relive the event through flashbacks or nightmares; they may feel sadness, fear or anger; and they may feel detached or estranged from other people. People with PTSD may avoid situations or people that remind them of the traumatic event, and they may have strong negative reactions to something as ordinary as a loud noise or an accidental touch.

PSTD is also known by different words like: combat disorder, combat fatigue, combat neurosis, complete exhaustion, operational exhaustion and shell shock.

3) Walker talked about her grandfather his violent and cruel activity which came in way of walker.

4) Walker mention her first job as art therapist because whe was the one who aviod all threats which were considering about art therapy. The word Therapy seemed to generate a fear and suspicion, amongst many, particularly within art schools, where there was and still is a strong desire to have art condidered as academically respectable (it has only recently been established that art qualifications were of degree status) and the notion that art cold be therapy was seen as insulting to the serious pursuit of Fine Art. She started give emphasis on art therapy and also laid more emphasis on the soldiers who were wounded and she quote the example of many country.

5) According to walker art therapyh can have the following impacts:

The results indicate that long-term art therapy resulted in higher satisfaction with treatment. Art therapy helped most with developing a sense of self after injury, experiencing positive emotions, processing trauma, and reducing feelings of guilt, grief.

6) First quote explains the situation of Afganistan where every time bad happening took place, talking about soldiers who are fighting for their country results damage to citizens and to soldiers itself also it is the responsibility of high ranked soldiers to save the wounded prey's on account of humanitarian grounds.

In the third conversation the situation is explained as although the soldiers have threat to their lives as well as for their job yet they kill their emotions and dump their feelings in their hearts.