A livid mother aggressively grabs her masked son (link is external)before he joins the melting pot of rioters, protestors, and police filling the Baltimore backdrop. A picture worth more than a thousand words that aptly captures the ongoing debate in America regarding police brutality and citizen responsibility for community safety—a conversation that recently shifted toward a parent’s role in socializing children to protect themselves. Little else matters when a child’s safety is in the balance—and few life events have as grave of an impact on an individual’s sense of safety as psychological trauma.
[For more of this story, written by Isaiah Pickens, go to https://www.psychologytoday.co...y-why-all-the-trauma]
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