Psychological debriefing usually involves counsellors providing survivors with a single counselling session soon after an event. But ‘talking through’ trauma can over-consolidate painful memories.
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Recording and bearing witness to a Black person’s death from police violence is in itself traumatizing.
Traumatic experiences affect people closest to the victims.
The deaths of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue filled people with sadness and fear. Transforming the grief into meaning is very difficult, a trauma psychologist writes, but ultimately healing.
One year after the Oct. 1 shooting massacre in Las Vegas, a team of scholars from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas offers insights into how to best help those affected by the violence.
Prisoners of war experience trauma, torture, humiliation and profound loneliness. A trauma psychologist explains how the effects can be lasting – and that Americans’ gratitude should also be.
Academic research brings people close together as they collaborate on shared goals and projects that often last decades. Saying goodbye to a collaborator can be as hard as saying goodbye to family.
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Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
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Assistant Professor-in-Residence of Counselor Education and Assistant Director of Clinical Services, The PRACTICE, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Associate Faculty-in-Residence in Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor & Director of Traumatic Stress Clinic, UNSW
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Sessional Instructor, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor-in-Residence in Psychology and Assistant Director of Clinical Services and Research at The PRACTICE, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Global Challenges Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh