Sonja Sohn (Det. Kima Greggs): "It validates the experiences of a large group of people.
Our website offers an anonymous community that validates the experiences of those who have endured harassment and microaggressions in their learning environments, and renders visibility to these experiences in order to spur institutional, and systemic, responses.
But this can happen only if we all practice authentically with reality as it is- which requires that we acknowledge and understand our role in perpetuating a white supremacist system that validates the experiences of white people and invalidates the experiences of people of color.
To a certain extent, data from the point prevalence study validate the experience of the bedside clinical staff; namely that among the 23 patients who met RRS activation criteria, only one had a serious adverse event.
Therefore, should disasters survivors be viewed as "psychologically damaged by the experiences that befell them or was it more appropriate to validate the experience of trauma from a humanistic and existential perspective by viewing their responses as an adaptation to frightening environmental events?" [ 12].
Healthcare professionals – particularly GPs – need to validate the experiences of every patient, regardless of their weight, remembering that it takes courage to admit to, and request support for, an eating disorder.
It is a powerful move from Bey, who uses her latest work to validate the experiences of black women everywhere.
As the country begins to give greater attention to the problem of sexual assault, it is my hope that we will also validate the experiences of young women who have suffered from other forms of abuse.
Rather than clumsily trying to squeeze people's distress into different boxes, and attempting to convince the public that these reflect illness processes, as with flu or cancer, we must shift our focus to one that validates the lived experience of people who are suffering, however they choose to understand their pain.
The decision to expand the section on mental health was validated by the experience of assessing women and reviewing their medical records: "The thing that jumps out at me is that psychiatric medication is number four on the list [of reasons for encounter]… That's bizarre doesn't happen in any other primary care grouping".
