Resources for PTSD & Mental Health

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Dec 6-7, 2013

"Covering Immigrants" Workshop Resources

Philadelphia, PA - United States - North America
On December 6-7 2013, the Dart Center hosted a workshop for journalists to improve news coverage of immigrants and refugees, with a special focus on mental health. The workshop was sponsored by the Thomas Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health. Scroll down for event coverage, including full video from all eleven panels and conversations, and other workshop resources.
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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.

"The Story Behind these Hands: Finding Their Way Out"

March 28, 2013 by Bill Landauer, Jason Plotkin, Samantha Dellinger, Scott Blanchard, Brad Jennings

Judges described this multimedia feature story in the York Daily Record (PA) as "moving" and "compassionate." It explores the lasting impact of trauma on one community nine years after the 2003 shooting at Red Lion Junior High that left the principal and shooter dead. Originally published in April, 2012. An interactive version of this story can be found here.

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.

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