Cascading Climate Hazards and Environmental Justice

Cascading Climate Hazards and Environmental Justice In Communities on the Fenceline of Polluting Industries Alique Berberian, MPH, MIA Section Editor: Claire J. Starrs Climate change, driven largely by human activities like fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions, is having widespread and unprecedented impacts on physical environments and populations in many regions across the world…

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On The Double: A Veteran-Driven Dissemination Campaign Spreading Awareness of PTSD Treatment Options

On The Double: A Veteran-Driven Dissemination Campaign Spreading Awareness of PTSD Treatment Options Infographics of Treatment Options for People with PTSD Teresa Granger Section Editor Created by Jacquelyn Baldwin, BSN, RN (Florida Atlantic University) and On The Double PCORI Dissemination Grant Team. Distribution welcome. Summer 2025 Issue Cascading Climate Hazards and Environmental Justice On The…

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Who’s Who: Meet Dr. Carolee GiaoUyen Tran

Who’s Who: Special Feature Special Feature for the 50 Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon It’s important to humanize the face of not only the Vietnam War but all wars so we can bear witness to the horror, suffering, destructiveness, and displacement that accompany them… I truly believe that at the end of the day,…

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Ethnotraumatology: Understanding Trauma in Black, Indigenous, and Diverse Ethnic Communities

Ethnotraumatology: Understanding Trauma in Black, Indigenous, & Diverse Ethnic Communities Educating Psychologists Beyond A Western Framework Lisseth London, PhD Karen Brown, PhD PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA Psychological trauma, as defined by the American Psychological Association, refers to the emotional response to an event or series of events that overwhelms an individual’s capacity to cope. The clinical definitions…

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Summer 2025 President’s Column

President’s Column | Summer 2025 Jessica Punzo, PsyD Happy Summer Everyone, I hope you all are taking time to get some sunshine and warm air, amidst all the business that comes with summer schedules. I am excited to share some of the things we have been working on behind the scenes here. The first thing…

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Summer 2025: Member Open Submissions

Collage

Sil Machado, PhD Being Diminished in the Eyes of the Other Collage The encounter with homophobic attitudes and behaviors is a significant, often traumatic stressor in the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals. This collage, which is part of an arts-based interpretive phenomenological inquiry into the experience of homophobia, represents the theme of being diminished in the…

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Trauma Wears a Hall Pass: Corporal Punishment in our Schools

Trauma Wears A Hall Pass: Corporal Punishment In Our Schools Kristina Schoenthaler Section Editor: Kiara Tookes-Williams Peer Reviewers: Molly Becker, Olivia Jackson, Jasmine Merlette, Zaine Roberts Advisor: Antonella Bariani When working with children in the welfare system, I often ask a simple but powerful question: “If you had a magic wand that could fix all…

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Book Review: Black Men and Racial Trauma: Impacts, Disparities, and Interventions

Review by: Nancy Maguire Section Editors: Serena Wadhwa & Omewha Beaton Yamonte Cooper, (New York, NY: Routledge), 2024, 314 Pages, ISBN 978-1032554105 (hardback), 978-1032554112 (paperback) Dr. Yamonte Cooper’s work, Black Men and Racial Trauma: Impacts, Disparities and Interventions, is seminal. He begins by articulating the meaning of anti-Blackness, simply and clearly stated as “racism based…

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