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Police Reform and Mental Health Crises
In the wake of George Floyd’s death, meaningful discussion about police reforms should be based on actual evidence of what does and does...
Pam Alexander, PhD
Jun 17, 20203 min read
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Coping with COVID-19 - Part 7: What About People With a History of Trauma?
As difficult as this pandemic is for all of us, it is even more challenging for individuals with a history of trauma. For example, people...
Pam Alexander, PhD
Apr 21, 20203 min read
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Coping with COVID-19 - Part 6: Finding Meaning in Our COVID Experiences
COVID-19 is forcing us to wrestle with many ethical dilemmas. What is the obligation of a healthcare provider working in a hospital to...
Pam Alexander, PhD
Apr 21, 20203 min read
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Coping with COVID-19 - Part 5: Staying Connected with Your Kids
Caring for our kids means helping them to feel safe, comforted when anxious or sad and above all, loved. However, in order to do this...
Pam Alexander, PhD
Apr 21, 20203 min read
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Coping with COVID-19 - Part 4: Staying Connected with Your Partner and Friends
Attachment theory[1] says that our very survival as infants is dependent on our connection with a caregiver. A huge body of research has...
Pam Alexander, PhD
Apr 20, 20203 min read
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Coping with COVID-19 - Part 3: Paying Attention to Your Emotions
Another way for us to deal with our anxieties is to calm our limbic system or emotional brain in order to allow our rational cognitive...
Pam Alexander, PhD
Apr 17, 20203 min read
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Coping with COVID-19 - Part 2: Safety First!
The first way to calm the brain is to reduce the amount of threat that a person is actually facing. Hence, the COVID-19 safety...
Pam Alexander, PhD
Apr 14, 20203 min read
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Coping with COVID-19 - Part 1: Introduction
The threat that each of us is experiencing with COVID-19 is significant, pervasive and without a clear end in sight. According to recent...
Pam Alexander, PhD
Apr 14, 20202 min read
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Thoughts on Trauma & Resilience: What is trauma? What is resilience?
Trauma is typically equated with the experience of abuse such as physical or sexual abuse, domestic violence, stranger rape, or other...
Pam Alexander, Ph.D.
Apr 19, 20172 min read
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Thoughts on Trauma & Resilience: The ACE Study
In my 35 years of working with survivors of childhood trauma, I have been struck both by the long-term impact of maltreatment and family...
Pam Alexander, Ph.D.
Apr 19, 20173 min read
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