Katia Riddle is a correspondent at NPR covering mental health. She has reported extensively on the impact of events such as Hurricane Helene, Los Angeles wildfires and the loneliness epidemic. Prior ...

Makayla and Maddux Jamerson slept through a 6:30 a.m. flash flood warning and woke to their three kids screaming that water was coming into the house. In less than an hour there was already more than ...

It’s a mental health intervention designed to address a therapeutic deficit exposed by other terrible events — like the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Nineteen ...

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On an unseasonably warm fall afternoon, Frank “The Tank” Watkins welcomes me to one of his favorite places: the skatepark at Pier 62 in Manhattan. “This is my community, my sanctuary, my second home,” ...

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Psychological first aid is the idea that interventions that can be done in the wake of a traumatic event to promote resilience and healing. Psychiatrist Robin Gurwitch helped develop the protocol.

It's a mental health intervention designed to address a therapeutic deficit exposed by other terrible events — like the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Nineteen ...

Several months after Hurricane Helene, survivors still need help coping with the trauma they endured. NPR's Katia Riddle went to Asheville, North Carolina, recently. She brings us this story about a ...