UNITED STATES OF TRAUMA: How a pandemic unmasked America:

by Robin Karr-Morse, Meredith Wiley, Ronald David

Overview

For Americans who can't help but feel the tension, stress and trauma that surrounds us, for those of us wondering about our mental health or that of our children, for those of us who wonder what the disturbance in city streets is all about, for those of us who may be angry and upset at the mobs of young people , some of whom show little respect for other people's property, and for those among deny being afraid of Black skin, for those of us who are now concerned that we have lost our way as a nation -or think the opposite: that we are the best nation of all- this little book is for you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781647892326
Publisher:	Robin Karr-Morse
Publication date:	10/26/2020
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Robin Karr-Morse is a family therapist in private practice for forty years. She has written and directed three statewide programs in Oregon, targeting prevention of the effects of developmental trauma. She was the consultant to Oregon’s largest interim legislative committee on preventing trauma to children and has authored three books on the roots of health and the roots of violence, including two editions of Ghosts from the Nursery and Scared Sick, which have taken her across the world as a lecturer. She lives with her husband and has four children and four grandchildren. This she considers her most important job.

Meredith Wiley is the former director of Fight Crime: Invest In Kids New York, part of a national bi-partisan, non-profit anti-crime organization made up of police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, victims of violence and crime prevention experts. She is a graduate (Cum Laude) of Willamette College of Law and has a master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She co-authored Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence, and Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease with Robin Karr Morse. Currently living in Fresno, Meredith is the editor of Our Children This Week, a weekly policy e-digest produced by The Children’s Movement Fresno.

Ronald David is a physician, public health administrator, priest and chaplain. The thematic thread that runs through all of his vocational endeavors is a deeply held conviction that relationships are primary. All else is derivative. Ronald is now retired and resides in Belmont, North Carolina with his wife Debbi and their Chocolate Labrador Retriever, Kabutu.