UT San Antonio Researchers Pilot Ways to Help Youths Deal with Trauma [expressnews.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 2/3/204:00 AM

By Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News, February 3, 2020

Before 12-year-old Rihanna Briseño started taking classes at Good Samaritan Community Services, she was quick to dislike people and to get angry. The Rhodes Middle School sixth grader didn’t know why, but sometimes her brain told her the right thing was to beat up another kid.

“I would say those things that I’m not going to say now,” Rihanna said in a recent interview, censoring herself.

Instead, after a three-month class that a University of Texas at San Antonio researcher piloted, Rihanna knows she can just close her eyes and think of things she can hear, feel and smell. When she opens her eyes, she’s calm again.

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