Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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How anger became the forgotten emotion
Characters like Succession’s Logan Roy can teach us a lot about anger and trauma, and why we need to understand more about the link
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Restoring the lives of Australians with PTSD
Australia’s largest ever treatment trial of PTSD in military personnel and veterans is delivering game-changing results
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New hope for treating PTSD
Treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder usually involves patients focusing on their traumatic experience, but world-first research may offer another treatment pathway
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Building togetherness in the face of disaster
A ten year study into the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfires highlights the importance of community and connection in what is a lesson for current and future disaster recovery efforts
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The morals and ethics of the COVID-19 frontline
Victoria’s healthcare workers need a comprehensive program of support to help them avoid moral injury and its impacts through the COVID-19 pandemic
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What is COVID-19 doing to our mental health?
Coronavirus isn’t only taking a physical toll, it’s playing with our minds, too. But there are steps we should all be taking to keep ourselves mentally well
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Understanding posttraumatic nightmares
Research into the effectiveness of “rescripting” dreams suggests that posttraumatic nightmares are actually a range of different phenomena, opening up the possibility of targeted treatments
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Bushfire trauma puts schooling at risk
A new study of nearly 25,000 school kids finds that those exposed to the traumatic 2009 Black Saturday Australian bushfires are more likely to fall behind in their learning years
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Can alternative therapies help PTSD?
Talking or exposure therapies may not work for everyone with post-traumatic stress disorder, but do the alternatives work?
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War and trauma: Learning the lessons
From a cup of tea behind the lines, to sophisticated psychological therapies, we are still working to improve treatments for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder