Seeing the Picture From Inside the Frame: Two Therapists' Observations Following the Virginia Tech Tragedy  

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Keeling, Margaret L. ; Piercy, Fred P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Traumatology vol. 14 no. 1 (Mar. 2008), page 21-24.
Topik: Virginia Tech; grief; human development; family therapy
Fulltext: 21.pdf (66.84KB)

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Around 8:30 a.m., I (MK) was in my office at the Family Therapy Center at Virginia Tech (VT). On hearing the first, tentative reports of a gunman on campus earlier that morning, I was not particularly alarmed. After witnessing the manhunt on the first day of that school year, I felt confident that the campus was secure and that the matter was probably already resolved. I wondered if my 12:30 class would be cancelled and how I would adjust my lesson plans if it was. As the morning hours went by, e-mails, Web postings, automated phone alerts, and the office grapevine made it clear that something terrible was happening. Those of us in the Family Therapy Center felt safe, being a couple of blocks away from the main campus, but we worried about students and colleagues who were scattered among the main campus buildings. It was not until around noon, after we were allowed to leave the building and go home, that I saw the news and realized the horrific extent of the shootings. I spent the rest of the afternoon intermittently watching the news, crying, and trying to contact students, coworkers, and family over computer and phone lines swamped by thousands of others trying to do the same.

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