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Some students, faculty, and staff will experience the COVIC-19 pandemic and social responses to it as trauma. This response depends on how they have responded to past trauma and the existence of other traumas in their pasts.
“Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.” Source: Van Der Kolk, B. (2014). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. New York, NY: Penguin.
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