First-responders are those rescuers that are first to arrive at any catastrophic event – whether “natural” (such as a flood or earthquake) or man-made (such as mass school-shootings or terrorist attacks). The knowledge obtained by studying enduring psychological reactions among rescuers has far-reaching public health implications. Following the spate of deadly mass-shootings over the past Read more…
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Friday, December 7th, 2018Letting your Child “Cry it out”: A big No-No according to Scientific Studies
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018Darcia Narvaez, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, recently wrote in Psychology Today how excessive crying out could be dangerous for children, leading to a lifetime of harm. In trauma research, foraging patterns are used to study stress responses by replicating different attachment models. A research team led by Read more…