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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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Originally intended to highlight risk factors, ACE scores are now used by clinicians to diagnose individuals, despite overlooking resilience and individual variations in response to adversity. TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities.

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

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Some kind of support to cope with it; you might also want to go it alone, or you could rely on the people around you. You may feel like you’re coming to a path and it matters a lot what you choose, so I was trying to capture all of that as possibilities of what we might understand by personal crises, and what people might want.

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