The Effects of Community Violence on Children and Adolescents
March 30, 2009
A National Center for PTSD Fact Sheet. A summary of the specific effects of community violence on children and adolescents.
Resources for Homicide & Mass Shooting, PTSD & Mental Health
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The Burden of Memory
March 11, 2009 by John Trotter
Photography is a medium, a record and a means of reclaiming identity in award-winning photojournalist John Trotter's multimedia meditation on his recovery from brain injury.
Weathering the Trauma Storms: Developing Interviewing Techniques
June 30, 2007 by Gavin Rees
Nearly every journalist in the course of their career will interview people who have experienced significant trauma. But how many receive any training for the task? This article describes how role-playing traumatic incidents might give student journalists valuable insight and hone crucial interviewing skills.
Rwanda Documentary Illuminates Lingering Effects of Genocide
July 21, 2005 by Kevin Kawamoto
Through the window of an airplane about to land in Rwanda, the verdant mountains and lush foliage below appear as a slice of paradise on earth. But those familiar with the history of this central African nation know that its past is far from heavenly.
Even Without Malice, Errors Still Hurt
June 11, 2004 by Jenny Wishart
Reporters may have felt they didn’t want to intrude, but far from a closed and hushed house between Sheona’s death and her funeral, it was literally an open house.
The Joseph Palczynski Story
February 12, 2001 by Linell Smith, Marego Athans, Ann LoLordo, Patricia Meisol, Doug Kapustin, Joannah Hill
A two-part series from The Baltimore Sun on the lives of six women serially victimized by one man's extremes of physical and psychological abuse.
Columbine: A Photographer's Perspective
April 20, 2000
David Handschuh, staff photographer for the New York Daily News, had just returned to his office when his editor told him to go to Littleton, Colorado. Six hours after watching the event unfold on television, he was at Columbine, covering the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
Death by Love
February 18, 1995
A series of articles on domestic violence victims murdered by a lover or spouse. Originally printed in The Times, Munster, IN, in 1995.
Fighting Crime Together
August 28, 1993 by Janet Wiscombe
A series of articles exploring how communities adapt to and recover from urban trauma. Originally published as a series in the Long Beach Press-Telegram from August to November, 1993.