The Psychological Cost of Disasters
January 26, 2017
PDF slideshow by Richard Bryant from the University of New South Wales on the psychological costs of disasters for victims.
Resources for PTSD & Mental Health
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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.
“Trigger Warnings” in the Media
November 28, 2016 by Autumn Slaughter, Elana Newman
An overview of current research on the use of trigger warnings in broadcast news, the effectiveness of these warnings and suggestions for future research.
Storyful Releases Podcast on Confronting Vicarious Trauma
November 16, 2016
Dart's Executive Director Bruce Shapiro joined Storyful's Della Kilroy and Joe Galvin, and journalists Jenny Hauser and Razan Ibraheem, to discuss the impact of graphic content on both journalists and viewers, as well as methods to confront vicarious trauma in the age of graphic online content consumption.
"On Assignment" Podcast Features Ochberg Fellow McEvers, Shapiro
November 8, 2016
The third installment of On Assignment's “Women We Love” series features Kelly McEvers, a veteran conflict reporter and co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, and Bruce Shapiro, the Dart Center's executive director.
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.
Overcoming Depression
October 29, 2016
Information on depression and its treatments from the American Psychological Association.
Under Threat: The Changing State of Media Safety
October 23, 2016
A 12-part report from the International News Safety Institute.
Summary: Early Childhood Institute
October 18, 2016
The Dart Center is offering a four-day reporting institute for international journalists on early childhood experience and the developing brain, March 9-12, 2017 at Columbia Journalism School in New York City. The application deadline has passed.
Lancet Publishes Groundbreaking Series on Early Childhood Development
October 18, 2016 by Karen Brown
A new series in the Lancet, Advancing Early Childhood Development: from Science to Scale, makes some troubling predictions. In middle and low-income countries, almost 250 million children – 43 percent of children under five – will fail to meet their developmental potential because of extreme poverty and deprivation. Karen Brown reports on these new findings in advance of the Dart Center's four-day reporting institute on early childhood experience and the developing brain.