Campus Killings Take Toll On Students
Psychologist Asks To Watch For Warning Signs For Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
POSTED: 3:46 pm EDT October 21, 2009
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- Questions are being raised as to how UConn students are supposed to move on after a homicide occurred on campus in what was supposed to be one of the safest spots on campus, the student union.
It’s a disturbing event even for students who were not eyewitnesses, including parents.
Clinical psychologist Dr. Robert Reynolds knows what the students at UConn are going through. His office is near the Wesleyan University campus where, in May, a student was shot and killed inside of a campus bookstore.
Reynolds said he treated a handful of Wesleyan students, including one who was inside of the bookstore during the shooting.
Reynolds said, “Of course there was nothing he could have done but he needed to talk that through and realize this was something that was beyond his control.”
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