PTSD and the news
Often current events allow us to make links to what we are teaching in class. When studying PTSD, being able to apply their understanding of the disorder to people suffering in natural disasters is a way to get them to think about PTSD outside of the context of the military, which is what so much of the research is about. Below is an example of a lesson that I did in 2013 - after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) destroyed...