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Racism hits mental health of victims
A survey in Australia has found that people who face profilic racist incidents are more likely to suffer high level of mental distress. The survey conducted by VicHealth, Beyondblue, University of Melbourne and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship of 1139 people found 40 per cent of victims of at [...]
Trauma
Kingsley Burrell Still Not Buried 18 Months After He Died
NO BODY, no burial, no justice, no peace.” This was the cry from hundreds of demonstrators who marched through Birmingham to protest about the suspicious death of Kingsley Burrell, whose body has still not been buried almost 18 months after his death. The 29-year-old father of two died on March [...]
Trauma
RECESSION BLAMED FOR INCREASE IN SUICIDES
A worrying study published in the British Medical Journal has concluded that the recession in the UK has led to an increase in suicides. The research, published this week, found that there were 846 more suicides among men than would have been expected based on historical trends, and 155 more suicides among [...]
Trauma
Inhuman Responses to Distressed Children
A report on ‘apathetic children’ in Sweden is important for UK asylum campaigners for the light it sheds on a condition so far unrecognised here. This useful report from Sweden throws light on the authorities’ treatment of children in asylum-seeking families who have developed severe depressive devitalisation (‘apathetic children’). The [...]
London, News and Events, Trauma
Unique Trauma Therapy project launched
TMG have launched the first trauma therapy project for victims of race hate crime. The Trauma Therapy Service provides emotional and psychological support to traumatised victims of race-hate crime. The project has two primary aims: 1. to help traumatised victims of racial and religious harassment develop and implement mechanisms for [...]
South East, Trauma
Machete rage of abuse victim who finally snapped
A FATHER who repeatedly stabbed a man with a machete was provoked by a gang of teenagers who had subjected him to racist abuse, a court heard on Thursday. In an attempt to protect his heavily pregnant wife, Jaimon Thomas, 39, had asked the youths to stop riding around the estate [...]
