Xiaomin Lai

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Min (they/she) is a graduate of the MSc Mental Health Studies programme at King’s College London, with a background in trauma-informed care and how mental health services respond to complex trauma. Their research interests focus on the lived experience of trauma, particularly how gender, marginalisation, and cross-cultural contexts shape mental health and help-seeking. They have training in counselling, drawing on humanistic, narrative, and feminist approaches, and are particularly interested in the use of arts-based methods in mental health support and research.

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When words wound: the underestimated impact of verbal abuse

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We say words can hurt. But new research suggests we are not taking verbal abuse seriously enough, especially as it becomes more common than physical abuse.

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