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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) sounds complicated, but the treatment itself is straightforward.

We all experience trauma over our lifetimes — the loss of a loved one, a bad injury or medical scare, a violent attack, a natural disaster. For most of us, fortunately, these incidents are few and far ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Learn what not to say to someone with PTSD. Show empathy and support with better communication strategies to aid healing and understanding.

Much of clinical psychologist Dr Edith Shiro's professional life revolves around the axis of trauma. In her Miami practice she specialises in helping people to unpick their life's most destabilising ...

Metahab at Sacramento State connects academic, research, and interprofessional resources to provide strengths-based curriculum, community programs, and organizational support promoting resilience, ...

The experience of significant life events, especially difficult ones, can motivate reflection on things we want to change. Psychologists have been studying this idea—known as post-traumatic growth—for ...

Rena Goldman has over a decade of writing and editing experience. She covers health, wellness, mental health, small business, and how politics and policies impact our daily lives. Rena has worked as a ...

Dear Doctors: My wife has a condition where any disruption to her skin, like a bug bite, a scratch or exposure to poison ivy, results in a rash that spreads over half of her body. It’s not related to ...