Brannan and Katie’s teacher have conferenced about Katie’s behavior many times. Brannan’s not surprised she’s picked up overreacting and yelling—you don’t have to be at the Vines residence for too long to hear Caleb hollering from his room, where he sometimes hides for 18, 20 hours at a time, and certainly not if you’re there during his nightmares, which Katie is.
This claim is showing the effects that katies fathers PTSD is having on her. She is exposed to his nightmares and screaming. To her that is normal and when that is brought outside of the home it can be very bad for a child.
Other studies have found a “higher rate of psychiatric treatment”; “more dysfunctional social and emotional behavior”; “difficulties in establishing and maintaining friendships.”
This claim exemplifies the effects of Caleb’s PTSD affecting his daughter Katies social life. The reason it could affect her is because the studies show she may have difficulties maintaining friends along with dysfunctional social and emotional behavior.
“She mirrors…she just mirrors” her dad’s behavior, Brannan says. She can’t get Katie to stop picking at the sores on her legs, sores she digs into her own skin with anxious little fingers. She is not, according to Brannan, “a normal, carefree six-year-old.”
This claim really drives the argument home. The argument being is PTSD contagious. This claim answers that question perfectly by showing how katie mirrors her fathers PTSD behaviors.
“Suppose that there is a second-generation effect in veterans, there are a few differences that are quite significant” from children of Holocaust survivors that “might account for difference in coping mechanisms and resources.” Holocaust survivors “had more resources and networks, wider family members and community to support them to adapt to their new circumstances after a war.” They were not, in other words, expected to man up and get over it.
This claim digs deep into history of holocaust survivors and there PTSD. It is shown that they had significantly less transmission of PTSD from generation to generation. Although, like the author says they had a much larger support group and were not expected to just get over these feelings unlike many PTSD patients today.
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Counterintuitive Fall 2022 
Grizzly, if you’ve read any of your classmates’ PTSD posts, or my reactions to them, you know that there are always MULTIPLE claims in every bit of text that can be identified and to some extent named. Your example:
Brannan and Katie’s teacher have conferenced about Katie’s behavior many times. Brannan’s not surprised she’s picked up overreacting and yelling—you don’t have to be at the Vines residence for too long to hear Caleb hollering from his room, where he sometimes hides for 18, 20 hours at a time, and certainly not if you’re there during his nightmares, which Katie is.
The author begins with a Factual Claim that Brannan and Katie’s teacher have conferenced. While it’s presented as fact, we know the author is taking Brannan’s word for the frequency of the conferences and their content. The rest of the paragraph similarly blends what the author personally observes and what she’s told.
Brannan makes an Evaluative and Causal Claim when she reports that Katie has “picked up” the yelling and drama that she observes in her dad. In effect, she’s claiming that being around yelling has led to Katie’s mimicking her dad’s behavior.
The author makes her own Factual and Evaluative Claim when she reports that anyone who spends a little time in the house (as she has done herself) will hear Caleb yelling from his room (as she must have done).
She passes along what Katie must have reported as a Factual Claim that Caleb spends 18 or 20 hours a day in his room, and the Evaluative Claim that he’s “hiding” in there from something.
She finishes with a mostly useless claim about Katie’s hearing dad scream at night, the value of which is to let readers know Caleb suffers from nightmares and that Katie’s sleep is probably interrupted by screaming.