![]() ![]() 4 Research is needed to improve our understanding of effective and cost effective interventions to promote psychological resilience and emotion regulation/distress tolerance in individuals exposed to violence. 3 Homicide has widespread negative sequelae touching all facets of survivors’ lives. 2 The homicide forces survivors to be fearful and lose confidence. 1 This paper recounts our efforts to promote coping and healing for homicide survivors and service providers specializing in providing support, counseling and other services to this population through testing the feasibility and acceptability of a low cost mind-body intervention at a community based service provider in Boston.Ī recent systematic review of the research of the impact of homicide on survivors or co-victims of homicide found consistent evidence for elevated rates of anxiety, depression, rage, and guilt. Survivors of homicide - the surviving family, friends and loved ones of individuals killed - are often considered co-victims. Coverage of violent acts against people of color on the television and the internet are all too often lived and retold by the “Survivors” of the violence. have disproportionately and historically been victims of racism and violence.
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