Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET) uses human cadavers to teach surgical exposure of anatomic structures that when injured may pose a threat to life or limb. The one-day course ...

Between 85-89% of college students have experienced some form of trauma in their lifetime, significantly impacting their academic performance, mental health, and overall well-being. The compounding ...

When people talk about trauma they often think of crisis, therapy or medical intervention, not university education. But the truth is trauma walks into our classrooms every day. Some students carry ...

In a recent blogpost, Stop Focusing on Pathology, I introduced five basic principles of trauma-focused psychotherapy. In this post, I will elaborate on the first of those principles: Psychoeducation.

Sexual and substance use education that incorporates knowledge about trauma could improve developmental outcomes among justice-involved Black youth, according to a Rutgers study published in the ...

In a recent post, Stop Focusing on Pathology, I introduced five basic principles of trauma-focused psychotherapy. In this post, I will elaborate on the first of those principles: psychoeducation. In ...

A child may survive violence, homelessness, or other profoundly distressing circumstance, but that doesn’t mean it’s over. The stress-response system that trauma activates in the body can have ...

Hard, challenging, difficult. Painful, disorienting, life-altering. There are so many words we reach for in response to the difficult experiences of life. We feel how words fail, how they are all ...