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Apa Lit Review 3
What support system does UTEP have for students with PTSD?
This literature review will examine how the symptoms of PTSD affect students and patients.
What Support System Does UTEP have for Students with PTSD?
In order to answer the question above an interview with an employee of the Military
Student Success Center at UTEP was to be conducted. While obtaining information on who is in
charge of the support system to help students with PTSD, it was found that UTEP has no support
system in place. Instead they direct any PTSD related issues to the Veterans Affairs Office in El
Paso, specifically to the Mental Health Department of the VA. With that given information, this
was an interesting find to the research question. Since UTEP had no support system, finding out
the support system the VA had was the next best option. An interview with the Chief of Mental
Health, Brian Oldell, was a great source to gather information. Oldell obtained his Masters in
Public Health at the University of Oklahoma and also a Masters in Social Work at Our Lady of
the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. He has been employed at the Veterans Affairs in El
Paso for two months but has twenty-five years of experience when it comes to the subjects of
mental health and PTSD.
Figure 1: The graph shows the enrollment rates of students from freshmen to senior year
comparing victims of child abuse to non-victims. The percentage of students that have
experienced child abuse drops significantly more than those students with no such history.
Since nearly two-thirds of student service members have been in combat, emotional
distress is high. During their first year in college students with PTSD are more prone to earning a
lower GPA. Another factor that can hinder academic performance is depression. With the given
facts that PTSD and depression correspond to a lower GPA and early dropouts, this puts students
service members at a high risk of academic difficulties.
Conclusion
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has the ability to changes ones life if they do not act upon
it. It is most common to affect military personal that go to combat or see events that are tragic
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