By Julia Yarbough — 2021
The pandemic was rough for Black and Latina families, but many women in these communities met the challenges head on.
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Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., ABPP, is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Disparities, and Director of the Laboratory for Culture and Mental Health Disparities.
What is post-traumatic growth? Amazingly, there really is such a thing. You've probably heard of post-traumatic stress disorder, but some individuals manage to not only recover from a trauma but actually grow from it.
Too often American veterans return from combat and spiral into depression, anger and loneliness they can neither share nor tackle on their own.
A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.
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Healing happens in our body and is more likely in a body that can stay settled in the midst of conflict and uncertainty.