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The authors discusse a survey they conducted on social workers' assessment of the media's impact on the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Through point biserial analysis, they found a moderate degree of association between years of clinical practice and perceived trauma. They say that social workers with the greater amount of practice experience are more likely to envision that the media increases trauma among the victims.

This article employs theories of counterpublics to investigate the Arab-American press before and after 9/11 as a counterpublic to the American war on terror. We use Squires's categorization of counterpublics as (1) assimilative enclaves, (2) satellites seeking separation, or (3) resistant counterpublics, actively dissenting. Using a corpus of 113 articles from "Arab American News," we argue that the Arab-American press circulated stories consistent with (1) and (2) but not (3). We conclude that a strategy of active resistance required greater standing of the Arab-American point of view in mainstream American thought than Arab-Americans enjoyed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]