trauma
lborkowski | August 15, 2017A few of the recent pieces I recommend reading:
Larissa MacFarquhar in the New Yorker: When Should a Child Be Taken from His Parents?
Brian Rinker at STAT: 32 churches and no methadone clinic: struggling with addiction in an opioid ‘treatment desert’
Renee Bracey Sherman in the New York Times: The Right to (Black) Life
Brianna Ehley at Politico: ‘I just started flowing. It was the only thing that helped.’In tough neighborhoods, can high-school mental health counselors cut the school-to-prison pipeline?
Yamiche Alcindor in the New York Times: In Sweltering South, Climate Change Is Now a…
lborkowski | June 8, 2011A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
Jamie Holmes in The New Republic: Why Can't More Poor People Escape Poverty?
Maryn McKenna at Superbug: 30 Years of AIDS, and How it Began (also Part II and Part III)
Jesse Green in New York: "A Textbook of Trauma" ("The crash of the Chinatown charter was the worst bus accident in the city's history. Fifteen of its victims ended up at one hospital. Fourteen lived.")
Emily Dugan in The Independent: The unstoppable march of the tobacco giants
Annie Lowrey in Slate: Your Commute is Killing You ("Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce,…
grrlscientist | June 4, 2008tags: researchblogging.org, psychology, trauma, emotions, 9-11, psychological health
To talk or not to talk, apparently that is the question, especially after a collective catastrophe, such as 9-11 or the Virginia Tech University shootings. A paper that will be published in the June issue of Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology reveals that -- contrary to current opinion -- verbally expressing one's emotions is not necessary to cope successfully with a community tragedy, and in fact, doing so might actually be harmful.
Expressing one's emotions in the aftermath of a community…