Post-Traumatic Stress

A recent study shows that seafarers taken prisoner by pirates have disproportionately high rates of post-traumatic stress.

• By Ian Evans

New research cautions journalists against harming their most vulnerable sources.

• By Lauren Kirchner

What happens to children and teenagers exposed to violence in their own neighborhoods.

• By Lois Beckett

Vet courts, like drug courts, treat the underlying factors for first-time offenders.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Worries about post-traumatic stress have become a stock part of the media narrative surrounding tragedies like Boston and Newtown. And resilience is supposedly the best we can hope for in the face of adversity. But what if there's a third option? The story of one mass shooting, and the surprising tug of post-traumatic growth.

• By Mark Obbie