Excelsior College PTSD Survivor Story Storyboard Case Study

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

PTSD Survivor’s Story: For this assignment, complete the steps below. 

Select a PTSD case study to use for your storyboard. Veterans and PTSD (https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/what/aging_vete…)

Choose a template and customize the story with appropriate pictures, colors, and text to best exemplify your survivor’s story.

Due to the nature of this assignment, you will need to create more than one page. To add another page to your story click on the duplicate button at the top right corner of your page 1 image. Once it is duplicated you can change the images and text to continue your story. 

For your chosen case study, depict the following:

Your first panel should be a title panel that clearly lists your name, the course, and the case study that you chose.

Your introductory panel(s) will introduce your client to the audience through an illustration. Depict the client’s age, sex/gender, marital/family status, and race/ethnicity.

1. Remember, you are presenting a story about the client from your case study. It is important that you introduce your client clearly. 

Next, show where your client resides (rural, urban, homeless, etc.). Select pictures from the template to help us understand your client’s residential situation. 

Is your client employed/unemployed? Select pictures that will show your client’s work status. 

1. In the next part of your story, have your client communicate to someone what the traumatic event was that triggered their PTSD. 

Following the description of your event, have your client or other characters in the story share the signs and/or symptoms being experienced by your client, as they align with the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. 

1. In your story, communicate specific evidence-based treatment/therapies/interventions you believe would be beneficial to your client.

A minimum of 3 interventions is required.

1. In the final part of the story, provide a positive ending to your client’s story by showing ways in which the client could minimize the long-term effects of exposure to trauma, based on what you have learned this term.