Psychologist Shares Thoughts on Dealing With Trauma of School Shootings
Monday, December 17, 2012
A clinical psychologist who helped people deal with the trauma of numerous disasters, including the Stockton schoolyard shooting and the Columbine shooting, shares his views on how people cope in the wake of Friday's Connecticut school shooting.
Post-Disaster Trauma: Friday's shooting at
Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School that ended in 27 deaths
"broke the nation's heart," to repeat the words of President Barack
Obama.
Unfortunately, school shootings in America are nothing new,
and this recent tragedy brings a reminder of the 1989 Stockton
Cleveland School shooting that left five children dead and 29
people wounded.
Mory Framer, a clinical psychologist who has helped people
deal with psychological trauma in the wake of numerous disasters,
including both the Stockton and Columbine shootings, talked about
the incidents and how people cope, during
Monday's Insight show.
Stockton Record columnist Michael Fitzgerald, who was a new
reporter covering the story at the time, also joined today's show
to talk about the stories.