Psychologists call it ‘vicarious trauma’ – the result of witnessing too much misery, even if you’re not experiencing it first hand. And it can affect anyone, from war correspondents to legal professionals and interpreters
Learning to Live in a World Without a Loved One
How can we cope with loss and navigate the grieving process? By Lucy Hone | June 2, 2021
Coping with the loss of a loved one is hard at the best of times. At the worst of times, as COVID-19 continues to ravage the planet, it can be even harder to bear. Not only has the virus caused the unexpected, sudden deaths of so many, but the circumstances accompanying those deaths and the limitations the pandemic placed on mourners have made the grieving process that much harder to navigate.
In my capacity as co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, I’ve been working with companies around the world to support the resilience of their teams throughout the pandemic. The multitude of grief stories has been harrowing. Only this week I spoke to a client whose work colleague had lost four members of his family to the virus. I’ve also spent time supporting a family whose husband/father was dying in
Can police be taught to stop their own violence?
Bostonâs department and others are adopting a peer-intervention training program. The ideas come from a UMass psychologist who survived the Holocaust, thanks to the help of others.
By Douglas StarrUpdated May 6, 2021, 7:31 a.m.
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Ervin Staub, a professor emeritus at UMass Amherst, is an expert on the science of interventionzack wittman for the boston globe
THE KILLING OF George Floyd is a recurring national nightmare. It played out again during the trial of his murderer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin â nine minutes and 29 seconds of Chauvin kneeling on Floydâs neck, ignoring Floydâs pleas and the shouts to stop from people nearby. What has been relatively less examined is the behavior of the other officers at the scene: Tou Thao, who stood facing the crowd, stopping people who were trying to help; J. Alexander Kueng, who held Floydâs waist; and Thomas Lane, who held his le