The Refugee Crisis at Our Doorstep

PTRBlog, Mental Health Matters

In the summer of 2014, thousands of Central Americans – mainly unaccompanied children and parents traveling with children from the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala – crossed Mexico into the US. The arrivals made headlines as a humanitarian crisis.The United Nations designated …

Growing Up In the Midst of War

PTRBlog, Global Voices

Let me tell you a story… It was 1984. The setting: post revolution Iran, a nation still reeling from the aftermath of the change in its political regime and the subsequent U.S. hostage crisis. The country now in the middle of a bloody war with …