Why Are Hispanics At Greater Risk For PTSD?

This study, focusing on police officers, reports that cultural and social factors play a major role in leaving Hispanic police officers more deeply affected by exposure to trauma. These results could have implications not only for the training of police officers but also for the benefit and protection of one of the fast growing ethnic groups in the U.S.

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