Today’s coverage of the Pulse night club shooting includes stories that focus on the EMTs, police officers, and health care workers who were first on the scene and treated victims in the immediate aftermath of the attack, and on the impact of secondary trauma in their lives.Īs Michelle Bosquet Enlow notes in her contribution to this series, “the definition of trauma includes not only direct exposure to actual or threatened death or serious injury, but also witnessing such an event or experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of such an event.” Secondary trauma-sometimes also referred to vicarious trauma or compassion fatigue-is the result not of direct experience of harm, but of intense exposure to the details of harm. This is in keeping with a recent trend to discuss the lasting effects of incidents of mass violence on the wider community. But amidst the coverage of survivors and their loved ones, some stories are taking a step back to look at the broader impact. Much of the coverage-then and now-has rightfully focused on those most directly affected: the victims and their loved ones, and the LGBTQ and Latinx communities who were targeted and disproportionately impacted by the attack.
By the time the police shot the gunman three hours later, he had killed 49 people and wounded more than 50 others in the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter in American history.Īs we mark today’s anniversary, the news is awash with stories of the way the shooting continues to impact people a year later. On June 12, 2016, an armed man walked into the Pulse night club-a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, packed with patrons enjoying Latin night-and opened fire.
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Background on the series and links to other blog posts are here.īy Cristine Hutchison-Jones, PhD Community members gather at a memorial service after the Sandy Hook school shooting.
This post is part of a series “Healing in the Wake of Community Violence: Lessons from Newtown and Beyond,” based on an event of the same name hosted at Harvard Law School in April 2017.
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