Coping With Trauma: What a Psychologist Learned at Virginia Tech Could Help Northern Illinois

People who were in the ocean-sciences class at Northern Illinois University and who survived the gunman's rampage there last Thursday are not the only ones at risk for psychological trauma in the weeks and months to come. People who were across the campus at the time—or not even at the university­—may also be prone to stress and depression just because they know someone, or lost someone, who was close to the horror at Cole Hall.

"Both direct exposure as well as loss are

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