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A recent review found moral injury was experienced by a wide range of people in different professions, including journalists, police, teachers and soldiers.
The brain can do a lot, but it is vulnerable, especially to traumatic events. Over the years, researchers have learned the unique ways in which it is damaged by experiencing or witnessing trauma.
Teen survivors of school shootings face unique complications and challenges. In the wake of two suicides by teen survivors of the shootings in Parkland, Fla, a child psychiatrist exlpains.
In a landmark ruling by a Victorian court, a former Age journalist has successfully sued for damages after consistently covering traumatic cases in her job.
The media frenzy surrounding George Pell's conviction may force victims of child sexual abuse to relive their own trauma.
Some 80% of young people will experience a traumatic event by the time they become an adult. Here's how teachers and parents can support them.
How books can help veterans overcome physical and mental trauma.
Mass shootings bring terror in ways that people watching from afar can only imagine. And yet, society at large is also affected, a trauma psychiatrist writes.
To some extent, shell-shock still shapes our understanding of PTSD today.
Quetiapine is an antipsychotic drug to treat severe mental illness, but it makes people feel sleepy, so has also been used as a sleeping pill – by prescription and illicitly.
The deaths of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue filled people with sadness and fear. Transforming the grief into meaning is very difficult, a trauma psychologist writes, but ultimately healing.
After 9/11, academic investigation seemed to seek out trauma rather than signs of resilience.
Dealing with graphic videos and images can harm journalists' mental health.
The news that a former moderator is suing Facebook over unsafe work practices suggests it's time we finally took the mental health of moderators seriously.
PTSD is a relatively modern term, but the symptoms are as old as civilisation itself.
A scholar raised by leftist San Francisco parents in the 1970s ends up teaching in the heartland, where her students represent a very different kind of politics. What she learns from them is profound.
Once associated with mind-control experiments and counter-cultural defiance, psychedelics now show great promise for mental health treatments and may prompt a re-evaluation of the scientific method.
Bullying isn't just linked to depression and anxiety, it can also lead to more subtle effects such as problems with trust and self-esteem.
Is it always good to talk about violent pasts? Sixty Rwandan youths participated in a research project that aimed to understand the perspectives of people born of rapes committed during the genocide
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Arash Javanbakht is a Friend of The Conversation.Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor, Deputy Director Phoenix Australia Centre for Post-traumatic Mental Health, University of Melbourne
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