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In my senior year of college, I began my first job as a social worker, counseling victims of sexual assault. I began every morning determined to help my clients, who had experienced major trauma. But ...

In a recent randomized clinical trial, we found adding Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Prevent Suicide (MBCT-S) to treatment-as-usual reduced the total number of suicide events and the ...

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The Action Collaborative brings together leaders from academic and research institutions and key stakeholders to collaboratively work toward and share targeted actions on addressing and preventing ...

We are living in an era in which the level of human suffering as a result of intra-State conflict seems to be escalating exponentially. The essential challenge remains how to create the political ...

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