Suicide Statistics
A fact-sheet of both national and international statistics relating to suicide
A fact-sheet of both national and international statistics relating to suicide
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.
We know more about suicide than ever before, says epidemiologist Madelyn Gould. New recommendations tell journalists how to use that knowledge, and a classroom guide tells journalism educators how to teach it.
A 2010 Dart Ochberg fellow reflects on how her work as a cultural anthropologist shapes her approach to journalistic and literary storytelling.
Guidance from an experienced psychiatrist on mental health issues and how they evolve in regions devastated by natural disasters.
A report on Reuters.com sheds light on how stressful – and dangerous – the act of newsgathering has become. And what news organizations need to do about it.
The story of war on the home front isn't complete without understanding its effect on military families.