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Psychotherapy and other mental health interventions
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Psychology and trauma
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Society and trauma
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Book reviews
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Book review: 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery - Take-Charge Strategies To Empower Your Healing Babette Rothschild
- While you are moving toward recovery, there are things you can do to make it a better journey
Book review: Resolving the anxiety dilemma - Dylan M. Kollman
- Anxiety is your friend…until it isn’t, at which point you will do well to have this book at hand
Book review: The body keeps the score - Bessel van der Kolk
- a highly original contribution from a trauma research pioneer
Psychotherapy and other mental health interventions
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About my PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)
- For YOU to give to other adults, to help them understand your PTSD
Anxiety and mindfulness meditation
- A self-managed intervention with no noxious side effects
Challenge walking
- Using your positive body sense to transform negative emotional learning and memory
Deepening self-awareness in the early stages of psychotherapy
- Knowing more enables doing more
Explaining your PTSD to your children
- A little gentle reassurance can be so very helpful
Feelings - is there more going on than you know?
- How to discover ALL that you are feeling
Finding a good therapist
- How to solve this problem thoughtfully and efficiently
Journaling as trauma therapy
- New research validates the effectiveness of expressive writing
Medication problems?
- How to find the best solution
Organic rule-outs
- Six top-priority concerns when you’re having a bad day
SSRI anti-depressants can lead to emotional blunting
- Effect seen in healthy subjects after 3 weeks of medication
Psychology and trauma
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Childhood influences adulthood
- It matters more than you may think
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder explained
- Many experts recognize that complex PTSD is a disorder in its own right
Memories of trauma are unique because of how brains and bodies respond to threat
- A traumatic memory can be nearly impossible to shake
PTSD in sexual assault victims differs from that in combat veterans
- Our picture of PTSD is inaccurate due to an overwhelming focus on PTSD in combat veterans
Threat detection can be an automatic, unconscious brain activity
- Managing this is particularly important in trauma and dissociation disorders
Trauma- and trauma-related diagnoses
- It’s more complex than you might think
Society and trauma
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Calling prostitution "Sex work" makes the problem worse
- It’s cover-up language
Children must be protected in their earliest years
- Serious mental and physical health risks in later life can be minimized if we do this
Childhood adversity is a ‘cause of causes’ of adult illnesses and mental health problems
- This public health hazard hides in plain sight
LGBTQ in America? That’s dangerous!
- Americans violently abuse LGBTQ people 9 times more often than non-LGBTQ people
Mental Health and treatment
- American views are becoming distinctly more positive
Parental violence against children has consequences
- …And none of them are good
Rape - it’s effectively decriminalized in England and Wales
- Why do so many men get away with rape? Police officers, survivors, lawyers and prosecutors on the scandal that shames the justice system
School shootings: At least 377 have occurred since Columbine
- Well over a quarter of a million children have been exposed to this violence since 1999
Sexual abuse rampant in U.S. federal prisons
- Bipartisan federal report finds abuse in the majority of prisons
Young children who are survivors of sexual abuse are not being heard
- The #MeToo movement has not included young sexual abused victims
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page author:
Tom Cloyd
| reviewed 2024-04-21