by lindaoppenheim | Jul 16, 2018 | Article
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Mike Newall describes the Healers, the nine young black men completing “a [nine week] Drexel University . . . program that teaches young black men, all victims of trauma, to work through their own experience and to treat it in...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 3, 2018 | Call to Action, Events
The Princeton YWCA is presenting a summer series of Stand Against Racism group discussions. All events are free and open to the public. The discussions will be held at YWCA Princeton’s Bramwell House Living Room, 77 Bayard Lane Princeton, NJ 08540. Racism...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 29, 2018 | Article
Experience of both egregious acts of injustice and microaggressions and even visual exposure to such events causes racial trauma with the familiar symptoms of PTSD–depression, fear based distrust of surroundings, anxiety, hyper alertness and angry outbursts...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 7, 2017 | Article
Nicholas Bakalar reports in the New York Times (Tuesday, December 5, 2017, p. D4) that the trauma experienced by 46,877 Finnish children who were evacuated to Sweden between 1940 and 1944 affected their female children, who “were twice as likely to be...
