What are the goals of professional treatment after a school shooting?

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Hayley Sherwood
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Reston Psychological Center, P.C.
www.restonpsych.com  
(703) 437-3236

Dr. Sherwood is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice at Reston Psychological Center, P.C., in Reston, Virginia.  She specializes in parenting, family, and women's issues.  She has extensive experience with clients with a variety of emotional and behavioral difficulties in clinical, community, and school settings.  Dr. Sherwood received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Temple University in 2000.  She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Virginia Psychological Association, the Northern Virginia Society of Clinical Psychologists, and the National Register for Health Service Providers in Psychology.

What are the goals of professional treatment after a school shooting?

 

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Dr. Hayley Sherwood: The goals of a professional treatment after a school shooting include, the safe release of feelings, release some symptoms recovery of a sense of mastery and control, correction of misunderstandings and self blame, restoration of a sense of trust in oneself and the future, development of a sense of prospective and distance regarding the trauma and minimizing the scar of the trauma.

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