When scary events happen, children need honest conversations, emotional safety, and tools to calm their bodies, so fear doesn ...

Trauma can look different for everyone. It can arise after being in an accident, losing a loved one, experiencing natural disasters, witnessing something traumatic happen to someone else, and many ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and Wednesday’s school shooting in Colorado, some child psychologists say there is a lot of content circulating on social media ...

WASHINGTON — In times of tragedy, we lean on one another. Our community is mourning the devastating loss of 67 lives after a heartbreaking midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army ...

Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Its goal is to help people process traumatic events while challenging and changing ...

Over the next few weeks, months and even years, many Australians will be struggling to process their experiences of Sunday ...

FORT JOHNSON, La. —First aid for the mind is a critical need in the wake of traumatic events. At the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Johnson, the behavioral health department from Bayne-Jones ...

"Am I ever going to get over this?" Anna cried in my office. She had spent years grappling with the aftermath of a traumatic childhood, marked by neglect and emotional abuse at the hands of her ...

We all have our scars, but what happens when we bury them so deep they start to shape our lives in ways we don’t even notice? Trauma, whether it’s from childhood or more recent experiences, doesn’t ...

Currently, the first-choice treatment for PTSD is exposure-based psychotherapy, where therapists help rewire the emotions associated with the traumatic memory in the patient’s brain, shifting from ...