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Evidence-Based Policing is Trauma Informed Policing
Trauma-informed care is an approach used to engage people with histories of trauma. It recognizes the presence of trauma symptoms and...
A-B-C, Women and PTSD, It’s Easy Like 1-2-3: Medical Trauma, Women and PTSD
What is PTSD? Post-Traumatic Stress disorder, otherwise known as PTSD, is a mental disorder following a terrible or life-threatening...
Addressing the Roots of Racial Violence
Why does the killing of unarmed blacks continue to happen?" asks political scientist Megan Ming Francis. She makes an urgent case for a...
The Importance of Trauma-Informed Teaching
In a trauma-informed school, the adults in the school community are prepared to recognize and respond to those who have been impacted by...
Psychological Trauma and Its Neurobiological Impacts on Transitional Aged Youth
While the word trauma is typically used in conversation to describe stressful situations that individuals are faced with on an everyday...
The Neurobiology of Psychological Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
The brain is one of the largest and most complex organs in the human body. It is made up of more than 100 billion nerves that communicate...
Stonewall Showed the World Our Resilience
NOTE: This blog post was first posted on June 24th on Psychology Today. To access the original post, please click here. As any lesbian,...
“Elder Abuse = Trauma”
What comes to mind when you hear the term “trauma”? For most people, you think about things such as PTSD, natural disasters, death...
Effects of Resilience and Hope on Parents
Resilience has always been a grounding factor for me. Growing up, I always had a maturity about how I respond to situations outside of my...
Trauma-Informed Approaches Requires Us to Challenge Implicit Bias
Implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. All...
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