Tag: Trauma
The Psychological Effects of the Zero-Tolerance Immigration Policy
Journal releases a compilation of articles detailing how zero-tolerance policy may impact mental health.
Correcting Misconceptions of Trauma-informed Care with Survivor Perspectives
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.
Entire Black Communities Suffer Trauma After Police Shootings
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...
Disrupting Toxic Stress in Children to Prevent Health Impacts
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...
His Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward (Podcast)
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...
Immigrant Shelters Drug Traumatized Teens Without Consent
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...
Early Life Exposure to Famine Can Lead to Depression
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...
The Lasting Impact of Detention on Children
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...
Joint Public Statement on U.S. Immigration Policies
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...
Separated-at-Birth Triplets Met Tragic End After Psych Experiment
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...
“The Angry Consumer”: Embracing Difficult Conversations
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.
The Drugging of Migrant Children: A Symptom of a Systemic Issue
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.
Pursuing Choice, Not Truth: Debates Around Diagnosis
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...
A Haunting Exploration of a Holocaust Survival Story
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...
What Trump Could Learn From Anna Freud About Parentless Kids
From Daily Beast: "Seventy-five years ago in the midst of World War II, Anna Freud, the daughter of Sigmund Freud, and her close friend,...
ISPS Australia’s Response to Schizophrenia Awareness Week: Drop the Label!
It really is time to drop the label of schizophrenia, and ISPS Australia invites us to consider just that, in favour of understanding human experience and removing the impediments to a person making sense of their experience — impediments that exist due to the primarily biomedical perspectives that continue to dominate the mental health systems.
The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma
In this piece for The New Yorker, Junot Diaz reflects on the impact of his experience of childhood sexual abuse and the ways that therapy...
How Compassion Can Triumph Over Toxic Childhood Trauma
From Medical Xpress: New research findings suggest that when pregnant women who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) feel supported by those around them, their...
Study Finds Connection Between Trauma and Psychosis in Children
Researchers connect the impact of early trauma to the development of psychosis in children as young as 7 years old.
How War Gets “Under the Skin”
In this piece, Patrick Larkin explores the impact of war on growth and human development. A study he conducted on Hmong refugees in French Guiana...
Trauma, Memory, and Mental Health
In this episode of ABC Radio National's All In The Mind, Lynne Malcolm interviews three experts about the impact of trauma on our memory and mental health. One guest,...
Meta-analysis Links Childhood Trauma to Psychosis Symptoms
The study results suggest that experiences of childhood trauma impact the development of symptoms associated with psychosis.
Childhood Trauma May Alter Immune Function
A new study finds an important link between childhood trauma, immune activation, and the development of psychiatric disorders.
A Radically Different Perspective on Mental Health
In this blog, Phil Wilshire, Principal Social Worker for Avon and Wiltshire NHS Partnership Trust, shares how the new Power Threat Meaning Framework aligns...
You’re Not Imagining It: Empathy Hurts
From WBUR: National tragedies such as the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida can be traumatic even for those who were not directly affected. It is...
