What action can take to change the ways we care for children and adults with unresolved trauma issues while also focusing on preventing traumas from occurring in the first place? Many of us realize that the systems we have in place to care for children and families are woefully unprepared to consider how trauma plays […]
The Reality of Political Trauma
In the midst of the trauma of impeachment proceedings in Washington DC, the various political debates and the barrage of news items about candidates and their degrees of honesty, integrity and abilities to maintain our democracy, many of us may be actually experiencing what can be termed “political trauma.” If you Google the term, you […]
Theory: Can Compassion Reduce or Prevent PTSD
I have been reading a fascinating and very informative new book called Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference. As the title suggests, the authors studied the impact of compassion on health outcomes in hospitals and other medical settings. They define compassion as “the emotional response to another’s pain or suffering, involving […]
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