PTSD and natural disasters
Current events can provide valuable opportunities to connect classroom learning to the real world. When studying PTSD, for example, natural disasters allow students to consider the disorder beyond the military context that dominates much of the research. The following lesson was developed in 2013 after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) devastated Tacloban in the Philippines. With winds reaching 230 km/h, the typhoon caused...