Anger, Aggression, and Psychology: Personal and Professional Reflections on the Virginia Tech Tragedy

The following day I contacted my advisor who, along with his wife, had gone to the Inn at Virginia Tech to meet and support the number of families that were arriving on campus to locate their children whom they had not heard from. I asked if I could be of any help and he told me that there was much to be done. While at the Inn, I spoke with families dev-astated by grief and some thankful that their chil-dren had been found, unharmed. I saw my advisor, a neuropsychologist by training, exhibiting tremen-dous, supportive clinical skills and helping people with unimaginable grief. I witnessed a first-year clin-ical psychology graduate student who had spent all night serving as a point of first contact for families and police reluctantly leave only to return a fe