U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - National Center for PTSD
January 29, 2017
Homepage for the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs National Center for PTSD.
Resources for PTSD & Mental Health, War & Civil Conflict
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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
January 29, 2017
Homepage for the VA National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics, which houses a wide variety of studies, reports, and statistical analysis of data pertaining to veterans health issues.
What Reporters Need to Know about Interviewing Trauma Survivors
January 9, 2017
Information from the National Veterans Legal Services Programs on interviewing veterans with PTSD and other trauma victims. Includes links to other resources.
What is PTSD? - U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs National Center for PTSD
October 29, 2016
Information from the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs National Center for PTSD on the causes, effects, and treatments of PTSD. Includes a downloadable PDF version of the report.
Military Health and Mental Health
January 29, 2016
List of reports and studies pertaining to military mental health.
Feinstein & Starr Release Study on Covering Conflict in Syria
May 20, 2014
The results are in from the only controlled study to date on the effects of trauma on journalists covering the conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of 63 reporters and media workers since 2011.
Good Wars, Bad Wars: Dale Maharidge & Nick Turse
May 10, 2013
A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge and Ridenhour Prize-winning journalist Nick Turse about their acclaimed new books, which revise our understanding of two very different wars.
Good Wars, Bad Wars: A Special Conversation
May 2, 2013
On Tuesday, the Dart Center hosted a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge and Ridenhour Prize-winning journalist Nick Turse about their acclaimed new books which revise our understanding of two very different wars. In Bringing Mulligan Home, Columbia Journalism professor Dale Maharidge goes in search of the ghosts that haunted his WWII veteran father. In Kill Everything that Moves, journalist and historian Nick Turse uncovers secret Pentagon records and tracks down survivors and perpetrators, revealing the brutal consequences of America’s military policy in Vietnam.
At War: Notes From the Front Lines
March 27, 2013 by Thomas J. Brennan, James Dao
Brennan, who suffered a traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan and was diagnosed with PTSD upon returning home, offers a uniquely personal and clear-eyed account of military culture and life as a veteran. Judges called Brennan’s blogging “fresh,” “powerful” and “profound.” Brennan's contributions to the "At War" blog were originally published in the New York Times in 2012.
The Power of Listening
November 13, 2012 by Andrew Hogg
In 2009, former news editor of the Sunday Times and the Observer Andrew Hogg spoke to journalism students at the City University in London about the treatment of torture victims. In the wake of the London High Court decision allowing three Kenyans to sue the UK government for torture they suffered during the 1950s and 60s Mau Mau revolution, we revive this illuminating speech.