Assistant Professor @ UNLV School of Social Work. Research focused on improving mental & behavioral health outcomes for populations with traumatic experiences.
Aug 21, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
As a #trauma researcher I often wonder why the fact that violence is squarely within the repertoire of normal human behavior is absent from the conversation among #academics and #culture observers more broadly. #whyisthat
Something deservedly undesirable in many contemporary contexts is not, as a result, abnormal.
Instead, I’d argue violence is often a maladaptive problem solving or #emotion regulation strategy.
