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Thinking about who you are and your purpose can help you move on from trauma.
On the 75th anniversary of India’s partition, scholars from the US, Canada, France, UK and Australia write about their favorite book or film that best explains the trauma of a violent division.
A lucid, demanding book on the psychology and neurobiology of trauma has become a publishing phenomenon. It resonates, writes Nick Haslam, with an age in which people are seeing trauma everywhere.
These two new romances starring bold, culturally connected heroines from Redfern and Western Sydney break the genre mould – but remain faithful to what readers love about romance.
The truth is that there are no easy and quick fixes, such as the governing party’s recent castration idea, which falls short on a range of scores.
An expert on grief says give people space and time to come to terms with loss and don’t expect them to need – or want – ‘closure.’
Terminally ill patients who seek an assisted death have no desire to end their life. Calling their decision ‘assisted suicide’ can have harmful consequences.
In a new report, child family violence survivors describe how family court worsened their trauma and profoundly affected their well-being even into adult life.
Sports can help prevent the involvement of youth in violent extremism.
The real Pennhurst – a hospital name-checked in the latest series of Stranger Things – was a place of segregation and abuse.
An anthropologist explains the power of purification rituals, such as bringing down a building following a tragic occurrence in it, and why they help reduce our anxieties.
These are ferociously intelligent books by two young female writers addressing the problems of gender, race and migration in Australia today.
Research on the impacts on schooling of COVID and bushfire and flood disasters has found academically the kids are mostly OK. It’s their well-being and recovery from trauma that demand our attention.
Schoolteachers routinely report feeling ill-prepared to guide their students through difficult conversations about high-profile violent events.
During spring and summer, as more people consider exercising outdoors, a trauma- and violence-informed approach to physical activity can help ensure equity, inclusion, safety and access.
People who are directly affected by mass shootings may develop PTSD and depression. But those who are indirectly exposed to these tragedies can also experience profound and long-lasting grief.
Trauma and PTSD can lead to challenges in the workplace. An expert explains what you should consider before seeking support at work.
Studying medication use in a traumatized population of immigrants required pharmacists to listen to and learn from trusted community health workers.
In her account of displacement, childhood abuse, pain and healing, Janine Mikosza recreates from memory the spaces she has inhabited and, in doing so, reinvents the memoir form.
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Professor, Yale University
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Child Psychiatry, University of Leicester
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Professor, Flinders University
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Adjunct Lecturer in Writing, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice | Co-leader of the Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit (SVRPU), University of the Sunshine Coast
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Assistant Professor / Department of Psychiatry; Assistant Research Professor / Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan
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Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Physical Therapy, Western University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
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PhD Candidate, Flinders University
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Associate Professor and Head of Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research, Monash University
