People who experience trauma often don’t discuss it until long after the incident has occurred. A lack of empathy is part of the reason.
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Families and friends bereaved after a sudden trauma may need both formal and informal support to help cope with their grief.
Lucid dreaming is showing some promise in treating nightmares. Could it help treat some mental illnesses, too?
Brain imaging study shows that we forget the context in which a traumatic event take place which could be crucial to avoiding negative loops.
How do we deal with people whose emotional responses we don’t understand? Demolition does not have the answers.
Chernobyl’s liquidators have come up with some intriguing ways of dealing with what they’ve gone through – without directly confronting painful memories.
The odds of recovering from a terrible experience are higher than you might think.
Just because acid isn’t generally used for mass-casualty attacks doesn’t mean that it doesn’t pose a very real threat.
A bill that would release the 112 children currently in immigration detention in Australia will soon go before the House of Representatives. So what should MPs consider when casting their votes?
First responders are hugely resilient – but here’s what to do when the memories become too much.
The death of a baby, whether born or unborn, is a devastating and traumatic event. More than 2,000 stillbirths occur every year in Australia. But a large number of them can be prevented.
Would you meet with the people found responsible for the deaths of your family members or friends?
Diagnostic labels usually describe symptoms, attempt to answer the question of what is wrong, and lead to a treatment plan. But “borderline personality disorder” fails on all three counts.
How do you deal with child mental health in an area where the cause is ongoing?
The emotional injuries from trauma can be as disabling as the physical injuries. But in the US only a handful of trauma centers employ licensed psychologists to look after patients and and families.
Not everyone has the same reaction to trauma, or recovers in the same way, or in a set time frame.
Boxing is big business but can come at a cost with severe health risks, even death. So what’s being done to reduce those risks?
The death of a 23-year-old boxer has prompted a call by the Queensland branch of the Australian Medical Association for the sport to be banned in Australia.
The Six Nations tournament has put the sport’s handling of head injuries into an uncomfortable spotlight.
Many of us have asked ourselves in the past few days: can you really falsely remember something as significant as being in a helicopter that was shot down? And many of us probably think “No way,” and quickly…
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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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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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