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TRAUMA-INFORMED
AND CULTURALLY
RESPONSIVE PRACTICES
IN SCHOOLS
To succeed in school, notes author and
clinical psychologist Isaiah Pickens,
BA ’05, students fundamentally need to
feel safe and connected—particularly
when chronic stress at home, in the
community or at school makes it dif昀椀cult
to learn. In his book, psychology major
Pickens explains practical ways to infuse
schools with trauma-informed and
culturally responsive (TICR) practices
that can foster compassionate
relationships, promote the well-being
of students and educators alike and
unlock young people’s academic
and social emotional potential. He
provides tools for implementing TICR
strategies in classroom instruction,
multi-tiered systems of support, school
safety planning and professional
learning. The book is packed with case
study examples, checklists, activity
guides, templates for assessment
and best-practice resources.
STUPID TV, BE MORE FUNNY
During his years at GW, journalism major Alan Siegel, BA ’05, bonded with his
classmates over their shared Simpsons super fandom. Now, in his book Stupid
TV, Be More Funny, Siegel celebrates the animated impact of Homer, Bart and
pop culture’s 昀椀rst family. A comprehensive account of the meteoric rise of the
long-running cartoon, the book takes readers inside the making of an American
phenomenon that Siegel calls “the most in昀氀uential show in the history of TV.”
He combines incisive pop culture criticism and interviews with the show’s creative
team to chart how The Simpsons developed its singular sensibility throughout the
’90s, one that was at once groundbreakingly subversive for a primetime cartoon
and shockingly wholesome. The result is a de昀椀nitive history of The Simpsons
through its most essential decade.
ADDICTION, INC.
MEDICATION-ASSISTED
TREATMENT AND AMERICA’S
FORGOTTEN WAR ON DRUGS
Despite epidemic levels of overdoses in the United
States, by 2020, only 20 percent of Americans
suffering from opioid use disorder received
medication-assisted treatment, the most effective—
and possibly most controversial—method for reducing
illicit drug use and curbing the symptoms of withdrawal.
In Addiction, Inc., historian and American studies major Emily Dufton, MA ’10,
PhD ’14, explains how this promising avenue of treatment emerged during
President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs in 1971 as a radical experiment in public
health, but eventually gave way to an immensely pro昀椀table private industry that
offers poor care at high costs to an insuf昀椀cient number of people.
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