Contributing Factors and Prevention of Suicide
Experts explain factors that contribute to suicide, and the best methods of prevention.
Experts explain factors that contribute to suicide, and the best methods of prevention.
With suicide rates in the U.S. armed forces at record highs, debate is raging about whether changing the name post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to post-traumatic stress injury (PTSI) would help reduce stigma. The Dart Center asked three leading clinicians and researchers to weigh in.
While the debate is focused on the power of naming a disorder, it really represents a far more important set of nuanced issues and assumptions about the nature of psychological responses after surviving catastrophe, brutal deaths, war, sexual assault and other horrific life events. It also represents differing views on how best to achieve needed cultural changes.
Changing the name of PTSD won't eliminate stigma or make sufferers more likely to seek treatment.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has been an accepted diagnosis since 1980. It's time for clinicians to adopt a new name - Post-Traumatic Stress Injury - that is more accurate, hopeful and honorable.
Ethical issues and common-sense suggestions on how mental health professionals and journalists can collaborate in the coverage of people who have experienced trauma.
A 2010 Dart Ochberg fellow reflects on how her work as a cultural anthropologist shapes her approach to journalistic and literary storytelling.
Lara Logan suffered sexual battery in Cairo, then gender bigotry back home.
A Haitian-born journalist and media scholar advises educators on how to equip the journalists of the future with the cultural awareness to effectively and sensitively report on natural disasters.
The story of war on the home front isn't complete without understanding its effect on military families.