Trauma can be passed down from generation to generation. What steps should adults take to try and break the cycle?
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Forget tinkering with the rules of boxing. It’s time for a wholesale change. Let’s make hits to the groin the aim of the game and ban hits to the head.
Children’s imaginations around events can be even more frightening than reality.
How to help people emotionally come to terms with the aftermath of a terrorist attack.
A cheap antibiotic may help prevent the formation of fearful memories.
A suicide in Tijuana casts bleak light on the trauma that undocumented immigrants face in Donald Trump’s America.
Reliving trauma on a national scale.
The pains of the past carry into the future, especially for groups of people who have been mistreated for decades or even centuries. Here is not only why that happens but also how you can help.
Researchers are finding medical uses for some molecules in certain street drugs, but it’s important to call the drugs by their real names. Here’s why that’s important.
The difficulties that soldiers face when returning home from battle are part of an old, old story.
Haiti has been struck by natural disasters before. Here’s what we learned about helping victims.
Because we all have it in us to be strong and courageous.
The lock hospitals inflicted incalculable traumas on Aboriginal people, wrenching them away from families and country.
People risk being physically harmed during violent protests. But there is also an emotional element at play.
The debates surrounding the 9/11 novel have been as informative as the novels themselves.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse has documented heart-rending testimonies and elicited shattering revelations. But how does a society witness itself failing at its most fundamental duty?
It’s not just children who need support to cope, their families and caregivers do, too.
It’s not uncommon for kids to experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress after a disaster. With thousands of children affected by Hurricane Harvey, how can parents help kids bounce back?
Jason Bourne’s overall pattern of forgetting and then retrieving memories is a better plot device than representation of real-world memory loss and recovery.
Why psychological pain and trauma could have some positive effects – but only for some people.
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Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
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Professor of Social Work, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
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Professor & Director of Traumatic Stress Clinic, UNSW
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Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Associate Professor, Paramedicine and Head of Department, Rural Allied Health, La Trobe University
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Professor of English, Flinders University
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Counseling Psychologist, Catholic University of Eastern Africa
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Casual Academic, Creative Writing and English Literature, Flinders University