Joan Cook, Author at Women's eNews

Joan Cook

Joan M. Cook, Ph.D. is a psychologist/associate professor at Yale University. For the past 20 years, she has been researching traumatic stress and clinically treating combat veterans, interpersonal violence survivors and people who escaped the former World Trade Center towers on 9/11. She is also an Op-Ed Public Voices Fellow, a regular contributor to Time Ideas and 2016 president of the American Psychological Association's Division of Trauma Psychology.

Campus Sexual Assault Survivors Need Support to Raise Their Voices

By Joan Cook ● Commentary ● January 6, 2017

As schools like Stanford University face lawsuits over ignoring sexual “predators,” survivors of these assaults need better support and justice.

Let’s Stop States from Shackling Female Prisoners in Childbirth

By Joan Cook ● Commentary ● May 15, 2016

Most of the women who are being subjected to this degrading and dangerous practice have already undergone enough trauma. We need the help of Congress and the Department of Justice to stop this “birthing barbarism” in the 28 states that still allow shackling at some or all points from the second trimester through postpartum recovery.

Rape Trauma Is Too Serious Not to Know Our Safety Options

By Joan Cook ● Commentary ● April 21, 2016

Novel interventions are springing up across college campuses to help young women prevent and even recover from rape. They are not a substitute for educating males and holding perpetrators accountable. But their benefits should still be appreciated.

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