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Sexual Violence Impacts Sexual and Ethnic Minority Women The Most: What Can We Do?

Sexual violence in the United States (i.e. rape and other forms of sexual assault) is a public health crisis disproportionately affecting...

Trauma and the 12 Steps

The video below is a discussion with Dr. Jamie Marich, the author of a recently revised version of her book, Trauma and the 12 Steps: An...

It Won't Happen To Me: Optimistic Bias About School Violence

Post-Columbine, children and adolescents’ knowledge about school violence has increased. But they believe it won’t happen at their...

Human Resilience: George Bonanno

George A. Bonanno, Ph.D. is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is known as a pioneering...

Substance Use and Traumatic Stress

Decades of research have shown a strong link between traumatic stress exposure and substance use. We used to think that we had to wait to...

Developing Resilience

Psychologists define resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant...

This year marks the 7th Annual Trauma Informed and Resilient Communities Conference in partnership with Crawford and Erie County Systems...

Trauma from an Intersectional Perspective: A Webinar from the International Society for Traumatic St

Intersectionality has been a buzzword in the mental health arena for some time, but what does it really mean—and how does it affect the...

Evidence-Based Policing is Trauma Informed Policing

Trauma-informed care is an approach used to engage people with histories of trauma. It recognizes the presence of trauma symptoms and...

A-B-C, Women and PTSD, It’s Easy Like 1-2-3: Medical Trauma, Women and PTSD

What is PTSD? Post-Traumatic Stress disorder, otherwise known as PTSD, is a mental disorder following a terrible or life-threatening...