Tag: Trauma

The following are some ways in which trauma commonly impacts a trauma survivor’s life. Imagine, as you read, how different our society might be if systems of care and justice were as trauma-informed as your life might be.

Peter Stastny is a New York-based psychiatrist, documentary filmmaker, and a co-founder of the International Network toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR). He has been...

A case analysis of an American Indian woman illustrates how the DSM diagnostic criteria misrepresent the lives of indigenous people.

Researchers explore how the processes of colonization may impact the well-being of indigenous populations today.

Researchers find that efforts to integrate the Cambodian idiom baksbat (broken courage) into local mental health care may have served to pathologize adaptive responding.

Individuals who experience psychosis can also experience posttraumatic growth, which can be a central component of the recovery paradigm.

Researchers explore pathways of healing racial trauma in Latinx immigrant communities.

Authors propose various pathways to the phenomena of voice-hearing in clinical and nonclinical populations.

Study questions how international psychiatric treatment of street children in Cairo could be reinforcing their marginality and vulnerability.

A new study explores feelings of belongingness as a protective factor for childhood trauma and adult mental health outcomes.

A new study in JAMA Psychiatry investigates the relationship between trauma and psychotic experiences.

Journal releases a compilation of articles detailing how zero-tolerance policy may impact mental health.

Trauma-informed approaches have the potential to promote recovery but must involve survivors and service-users to prevent the experience of retraumatization within psychiatric and mental health services.

From YES! Magazine: "According to researchers, the incidents may contribute to 1.7 additional poor mental health days per person every year, or 55 million...

From Medical Xpress: "In an effort to address ACEs in young patients in Oakland, Long in 2012 created the hospital's Family Information and Navigation...

From Psychiatric Times: "After the first episode, when Giulia was healthy and balanced and stable in between, she was really mad at me, and I...

From ProPublica: "Emotional distress and mental health issues are prevalent among these children, sometimes a result of traumatic experiences in their home countries, at other...

From Medical Xpress: "New research from the University of Georgia reveals that exposure to famine during specific moments in early life is associated with depression...

From The Guardian: "Last month, amid international outcry over his administration’s 'zero-tolerance' policy, which led to the separation of 2,300 children from their parents, Donald...

Several psychology groups have released the following public statement on U.S. immigration policies and practices: "This statement is an official statement of the specific signatories...

From the New York Post: "'Three Identical Strangers' chronicles a story so wild that, as Shafran says in the film, 'I wouldn’t believe if...

Judgments of the so-called ‘angry consumer’ deeply reinforce divisions within mental health policy and services. The only way we can engage in meaningful co-production is not to gloss over histories of collective exclusion and disempowerment and all the pain and anger that goes with it, but rather to validate and work through difficult emotions.

Isolation, demeaning behaviors on the part of staff, forced injections and tranquilization — former patients of detention and residential facilities have been describing this inhumanity as the norm for decades. It is our acceptance of this as a norm that allows for abusive situations to arise so easily.

From Asylum: "Once we opt for a single story around mental health, whether that’s the story of illness, or the story of trauma, then...

From Aeon: "In Nach Am Leben (I’m Still Alive), the Australian animator and illustrator Anita Lester reflects on the harrowing and tragic life of her late...