It’s not surprising that urban violence traumatizes civilians - TopicsExpress



          

It’s not surprising that urban violence traumatizes civilians the same way war affects soldiers: Seeing friends gunned down on the way to school is at least as traumatic as watching comrades perish on the front lines. But when the violence ricochets across a community’s fundamental institutions of family, work and education, the cumulative social stress has more insidious effects, undermining people’s ability to work or care for their children. Meanwhile, these embattled communities are often isolated from critical mental health care resources. america.aljazeera/opinions/2014/3/ptsd-mental-healthgunviolencetrauma.html
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:30:09 +0000

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