21.   Children tend to overreact immediately to traumatic events, but they then look ahead.

22.   Counseling sessions known as debriefings, in which health professionals seek to lessen the effects of traumatic events by encouraging emotional expression, have been increasingly common.

23.   Even basic impressions of the nature of traumatic events are often misguided.

24.   For years, psychologists have hotly debated whether completely forgetting and then remembering a traumatic event is even possible.

25.   For more than a decade, he has studied responses to traumatic events.

26.   Funded by the National Institutes of Health, it is a study he thinks will improve understanding of what happens in repressed memory of traumatic events.

27.   Heard is victim services coordinator and thus deals with people who have just suffered traumatic events.

28.   In recent years, Glenn said, the country has had no traumatic events such as those in the past that forced people to care about their society.

29.   In the early history of every field, there are traumatic events.

30.   Instead, they often use even the most traumatic event as a springboard for a creative and helpful response to life.