He also wrote a section on brain-based sexual assault responses and memories for the next version of “Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Toolkit,” distributed nationally by DOJ’s Office for Victims of Crime. He has created trainings on the neurobiology of sexual assault trauma for the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims and Crime and the Department of Defense’s Safe Helpline. His nonprofit and policy work has included being a founding board member and long-time advisor of 1in6, an organization for men who’ve had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences and those who care about them a board member of Stop It Now!, a child sexual abuse prevention organization and a member of the Peace Corps Sexual Assault Advisory Council. He is also a meditator, primarily in the Vipassana tradition, and a co-editor of Mindfulness-Oriented Interventions for Trauma: Integrating Contemplative Practices (Guilford Press, 2015). In his forensic expert witness work, he testifies on the short- and long-term impacts of sexual assault and child abuse. He consults and teaches nationally and internationally to civilian and military investigators, prosecutors, clinicians, victim advocates, military commanders, higher education administrators, and many others.Īs a clinician, he works with adults who have experienced assault or were abused as children. For over 25 years, his research, clinical, and consulting work has focused on the psychological and biological effects of sexual assault, child abuse, and other traumatic experiences. He’s hoping that he can find that good and caring person within himself once again.Jim Hopper, Ph.D., is an independent consultant and Teaching Associate in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School. Still, he was once a dedicated officer and a compassionate family man. The less he feels overall, the less likely he is to feel pain. Jim has been beaten down by tragedy and is simply going through the motions.
But now that he’s stumbled upon a true mystery and what appears to be some serious crimes, he’s trying to rise to the occasion to help bring Will back to Joyce safe and sound.
Frankly, Chief Hopper hasn’t been especially engaged with his job lately, or with life in general for that matter. unraveling the mystery of what happened to Will Byers. He still does fairly well landing women, but doesn’t seem to be seeking any connection deeper than a night or two of fun.Ĭhallenge. Jim was once married to Diane, but the death of their daughter Sarah was too much for the marriage to overcome. Jim is an expert in numbing pain while pretending it doesn’t exist. But soon Jim discovers that Will’s disappearance is tied to some very strange and dangerous doings, centered around the Hawkins National Laboratory. That’s why when Joyce Byers claims that her 12-year-old son Will is missing, an unworried Jim says that he’s probably just playing hooky. The rest of the “force” consists of two other officers, and the worst thing he’s encountered in the four years he’s held the job is when an owl attacked a local woman after mistaking her hair for a nest. That might sound more impressive than it is. chief of police of the Hawkins Police Department. These days he spends most of his time in an alcohol and drug-induced haze, rolling in late to work after sleeping one off and/or indulging in a one-night stand. At one point Jim was a big-city police officer and a married man with a beautiful daughter, but all of that is gone now. alone and back in Hawkins again, which definitely wasn’t the plan. in small-town Hawkins, Ind., where he went to high school with Joyce Byers, among others.
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