Authors #180 : Ann Hazzard, Marianna Celano, and Marietta Collins share how to help handle the strong emotion of fear

 

Doctors Ann Hazzard, Marianna Celano, and Marietta Collins are all psychologists who worked together at the Emory University School of Medicine and have worked for over twenty years with children’s behavioral health and social justice. They collaborated together to write the book entitled: Something Happened In Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence.  Illustrations are by Keith Henry Brown. The book explores the hard emotions after a cousin living with family is shot in the leg while attending a concert at a local park. The book shares some of the fears and how the characters in the story address those fears through art, talking with each other, coming up with ideas to change the neighborhood through community action, and how to move forward when you feel like you can’t move because of fear.  At the end of the story there are several pages of information in the reader’s note section. Some of the ideas the authors shared about dealing with anxiety include expressing feelings, encouraging positive thinking, and taking action. Find more information at: https://www.apa.org/pubs/magination/something-happened-in-our-park