Skip to main content
Georgia Public Broadcasting Logo
  • Watch

    Featured Specials and Programs

    • All Creatures Great and Small
    • Antiques Roadshow
    • PBS News Hour
    • Miss Scarlet & The Duke
    • Finding Your Roots
    • Doc Martin
    All Programs

    GPB Originals

    • Georgia Legends
    • Lawmakers
    • A Fork in the Road
    • View Finders
    • Georgia Outdoors
    • Your Fantastic Mind
    GPB Originals

    Browse by Genre

    • Arts & Music
    • Culture
    • Drama
    • Food
    • History
    • News & Public Affairs
    • TV Schedule
    • GPB Programs
    • PBS Passport
    • TV Highlights this Week
    • PBS KIDS
    • Ways to Watch
    • Newsletters
    • Contact GPB
  • Listen

    Featured Programs

    • The Daily
    • Morning Edition
    • All Things Considered
    • Serendipity
    • John Lemley's City Cafe
    • Fresh Air
    • Here and Now
    • Code Switch/Life Kit
    • Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
    All Programs

    Podcasts

    • GA Today
    • Salvation South
    • Battleground: Ballot Box
    • Football Fridays in Georgia
    • Narrative Edge
    • Peach Jam Podcast
    • A Fork in the Road
    • Radio Schedule
    • GPB Classical
    • Radio Programs
    • Podcasts
    • GPB News
    • Find Your Station
    • Ways to Listen
    • Contact GPB
    • Newsletters
  • Learn

    Featured

    • Chemistry Matters
    • Classroom Conversations Podcast
    • GASHA Go! World
    • Georgia Farmcraft®
    • Georgia Classroom
    • Georgia Studies Collection
    • Econ Express
    • Let’s Go Enviro
    • Let's Learn GA!
    • Lights, Camera, Budget!
    • Live Explorations
    • Physics in Motion
    • School Stories
    • Virtual Field Trips
    • VR in the Classroom
    • Writers Contest

    For Kids & Teachers

    • GPB Games
    • PBS KIDS
    • PBS LearningMedia

    • on Twitter
    • on Facebook
    • on Email
  • News

    Featured Programs & Series

    • Lawmakers
    • Lawmakers: Beyond the Dome
    • 1A
    • Battleground: Ballot Box
    • GA Today Podcast
    • Storycorps
    • Narrative Edge

    More GPB News

    • Politics
    • Georgia News
    • Justice
    • Arts & Life
    • Health
    All GPB News
    • Radio Schedule
    • Radio Stations
    • GPB Apps
    • Podcasts
    • Contact GPB News
    • Follow Us on Apple News
    • Newsletters
  • Sports

    GHSA Sports

    • Football
    • Basketball
    • Cheerleading
    • On Demand
    • GPB Sports Blog
    All Sports

    High School Football

    • Scores & Schedule
    • On Demand
    • Teams
    • Rankings
    • Brackets
    • Heads Up Georgia
    Football Home
    • GPB Sports App
    • GPB Sports Blog
    • GPB Sports OnDemand
  • Events

    Browse by Type

    • Community
    • Donor
    • Kids & Family
    • Screenings
    All Events

    Browse by Category

    • Education
    • News
    • Sports
    • Television

    Sign up to receive GPB Event announcements via Email.

    Sign up

    • on Twitter
    • on Facebook
    • on Instagram
  • Kids & Families

    For Kids

    • Video
    • Games

    For Parents & Caregivers

    • Kids & Families Blog
    • Kids & Families Events
    • GPB KIDS - Ways to Watch
  • Support Us

    Support GPB

    • Ways to Give
    • Planned Giving
    • Sustainers
    • GPB Passport
    • Leadership Giving
    • Corporate Sponsorship
    • Vehicle Donations
    • GPB Next
    • Matching Gifts
  • Search
GPB Passport icon GPB Passport icon Passport
GPB donate icon GPB donate icon Donate
Listen Live Listen Live Watch Live Watch Live

GPB Newsletter CTA

Sign Up For Our Newsletter

News Topics

  • Georgia
  • National
  • Politics
  • Lawmakers
  • Elections

Don't Miss

Don't Miss:

  • Support GPB Today
  • New Podcast: Manufacturing Danger: The BioLab Story
  • TV Highlights This Week

News Articles: Trauma

Ribbon cutting ceremony outside the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville Green Tower

Tagged as: 

  • Health Care

This Level 1 Trauma Center in northern Georgia has a new helipad atop an 11-story tower

A new helipad on the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville Green Tower's roof means faster and more efficient access to support life-saving trauma, heart and surgical care.

February 07, 2025
|
By:
  • Ellen Eldridge

Tagged as: 

  • Health

Ever felt so stressed you didn’t know what to do next? Try talking to your 'parts'

'Parts work' or Internal Family Systems is a type of talk therapy that’s surged in popularity. Here’s how it works and how it can help with stress. 

October 28, 2024
|
By:
  • Allison Aubrey
Khadija Rahmani says her son, Mujib Ur Rahman, 12, looks forward to visits from Shabana Siddiqui, a health educator who left Afghanistan in 2022. The Rahmani family arrived in the U.S. in January and settled in Maine.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

How do you help young Afghan refugees heal? A new program in Maine offers a way

Research shows that a toxic mix of past traumas and the stresses of resettlement puts refugee kids at significantly higher risk of long term mental health challenges. A new effort aims to mitigate those risks by supporting parents and children in refugee families.

September 15, 2024
|
By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Some researchers say restraint and seclusion of children can cause long-lasting trauma and escalate negative behaviors.

Tagged as: 

  • Children's Health

'I'm not safe here': Schools ignore federal rules on restraint and seclusion

Federal officials have long warned that restraint and seclusion in schools can be dangerous and traumatizing for children, but school districts often fail to report incidents as required by law.

January 17, 2024
|
By:
  • Fred Clasen-Kelly
Palestinians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Images of suffering, violence and death in Gaza and Israel have flooded the news since Oct. 7.

Tagged as: 

  • Health

Watching war unfold is distressing — here's how to protect your mental health

Doomscrolling won't help the people who are suffering and it might put you into a state of chronic stress. A psychiatrist who works with trauma shares advice for how to process global tragedy.

November 27, 2023
|
By:
  • Malaka Gharib
A girl looks on as she stands by the rubble outside a building hit by Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023. Children in Gaza have been exposed to high levels of violence even before the current war, researchers say, increasing their risk of mental health challenges.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

How a history of trauma is affecting the children of Gaza

Even before the current war, researchers documented the impact of conflict on children in Gaza. Now they worry that kids who are trapped on the battlefield face long-term impacts on mental health.

November 10, 2023
|
By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Left: A Palestinian woman cries at the garden of Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist Hospital after it was hit in Gaza City, Gaza on Oct. 18. Right: After an attack by Hamas on a kibbutz near the Gaza border, a swing is left intact while most of this family's house is in ruins. Five family members were kidnapped.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

The Middle East crisis is stirring up a 'tsunami' of mental health woes

The Israel-Gaza conflict is likely to leave people in the region struggling with trauma-related mental health symptoms for a long time to come.

October 26, 2023
|
By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton has studied Auschwitz survivors, Vietnam war veterans, survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and people who'd been subjected to repression by the Chinese government. He reflects on what he's learned in his new book, <em>Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the Covid-19 Pandemic.</em>

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

What survivors of trauma have taught this eminent psychiatrist about hope

In his new book, 97-year-old Robert Jay Lifton shares the "survivor wisdom" he's learned from those who've lived through terrible events — the Holocaust, Hiroshima, POW camps.

October 09, 2023
|
By:
  • Joanne Silberner
hospital entrance

Tagged as: 

  • Health

Trauma care in Georgia is strained, and a rural review points to systemic failures

The review, by the American College of Surgeons, sets most standards for trauma care in the state. But standards, mostly in logistics, are missing across Georgia's 159 counties, especially south of Atlanta. 

May 11, 2023
|
By:
  • Sofi Gratas
People hug at a memorial at the entrance to the Covenant School on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.

Tagged as: 

  • Mental Health

A therapist has advice for how to cope with repeated mass shootings: Lean into family

The U.S. sees hundreds of mass shootings each year — so many that some people have survived more than one. A therapist offers advice for how to cope with the trauma.

March 30, 2023
|
By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Almost 60% of teen girls in the U.S. had depressive symptoms in the past year, according to new survey data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And nearly 1 in 3 said they'd seriously considered suicide.

Tagged as: 

  • Health

Teen girls and LGBTQ+ youth plagued by violence and trauma, survey says

Nearly one in three girls reported seriously considering suicide in the past year – a 60% rise from a decade ago, according to the CDC survey data.

February 13, 2023
|
By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Surgeons perform a surgical operation.

Tagged as: 

  • Health

Trauma surgeons detail the horror of mass shootings in the wake of Uvalde and call for reforms

In recent years, the medical profession has developed techniques to help save more gunshot victims, such as evacuating patients rapidly. But some trauma surgeons say that even those improvements can save only a fraction of patients when military-style rifles inflict the injury.

June 10, 2022
|
By:
  • Lauren Sausser and
  • Andy Miller
A group of teachers visiting from Dilley, Texas, view a memorial honoring the victims killed in last week's elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Friday, June 3, 2022.

Tagged as: 

  • National

This is how handguns and assault weapons affect the human body

The effect of assault weapons is much greater in children, as the surface area of their organs and arteries are smaller, said Dr. Joseph Sakran, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

June 06, 2022
|
By:
  • Emma Bowman and
  • Ayana Archie
A group of teachers visiting from Dilley, Texas, view a memorial honoring the victims killed in last week's elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Friday, June 3, 2022.

Tagged as: 

  • National

This is how handguns and assault weapons affect the human body

The effect of assault weapons is much greater in children, as the surface area of their organs and arteries are smaller, said Dr. Joseph Sakran, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

June 06, 2022
|
By:
  • Emma Bowman and
  • Ayana Archie
Left: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Feb. 22. Right: Zelenskyy on April 4.

Tagged as: 

  • History

Images of Zelenskyy show the physical toll that trauma and stress can have on the body

Health experts told NPR that long-term exposure to trauma and stress — like that of the war in Ukraine — can impact a person's sleep, memory, mood and physical appearance.

April 13, 2022
|
By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
  • Load More

Newsletter Signup

Sign Up For Our Newsletters

Connect with GPB

  • Connect with GPB on Facebook
  • Connect with GPB on Instagram
  • Connect with GPB on Twitter
  • Connect with GPB on YouTube
  • Connect with GPB on Apple News

Footer

Footer First Nav (Main Menu)

  • Watch
  • Listen
  • Learn
  • News
  • Sports
  • Events
  • Kids & Families
  • Support Us
  • Search

Footer Second Nav Menu

  • Help Center
  • About GPB
  • Contact Us
  • Closed Captioning
  • Directions
  • Studio Production
  • Program Submissions

Footer Third Nav Menu

  • Support Us
  • Careers
  • Accessibility
  • FCC Public Files
  • Drawing Rules
  • News Media Request
  • Open Records and Document Retention Policy
  • Privacy Policy

Georgia Public Broadcasting

260 14th St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
United States

(404) 685-2400 In Atlanta
(800) 222-4788 Outside Atlanta
ask@gpb.org

Newsletter Signup

Sign Up For Our Newsletters

Connect with GPB

  • Connect with GPB on Facebook
  • Connect with GPB on Instagram
  • Connect with GPB on Twitter
  • Connect with GPB on YouTube
  • Connect with GPB on Apple News
© Copyright 2025, Georgia Public Broadcasting. All Rights Reserved. Georgia Public Radio® GPTV®