Word: sociality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are no hard-and-fast rules for treating PTSD, but studies show that stricken veterans who have a strong social network of family and friends tend to bounce back faster. For Waddell, the treatment has been a combination of techniques designed to calm the storm of his wartime memories and his emotional responses to them. It involves everything from drugs to cathartic sessions of therapy to mapping his brain waves. It also helps for Waddell to vocalize his traumatic experiences, so he and Marshéle often speak to church and community groups about PTSD. It can take years...
Raúl A. Carrillo ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House...
...spilled over into so many other places,” wrote House Committee Co-Chair Michael F. Ayoub ’10 in an e-mailed statement to the Crimson. “The open houses they periodically hold at their residence are always warm and inviting, a main social event for all of Eliot House...
Jessica A. Sequeira ’11, a Crimson associate editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House...
Perhaps worst of all, the “vitality vs. security” argument masks a certain, purposeful interdependence in America, especially between generations. Democracy works on the premise that the social contract spans eras. Today’s young provide some protection for those who sacrificed in the past, and today’s elderly maintain a duty of active stewardship for those who will come in the future. There are live wires between us, and to describe the American contract of caring for citizens of other generations as a mere siphoning process, as Brooks does, is to cheapen...