ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Betty Pfefferbaum

Okay kiddo, have you ever heard of Betty Pfefferbaum? She's a really smart lady who knows a lot about something called psychiatry. That's like when doctors study how our brains work and how we think and feel.

Betty Pfefferbaum has done a lot of research on how people can recover from really hard things like disasters, or bad things that happen in our lives. She wants to help people feel better and be happy again.

She also helps people called first responders, who are the brave people who go to disasters and help others. Betty Pfefferbaum helps them feel better too, because their job can be really hard and they see things that are scary.

So Betty Pfefferbaum helps people have happy lives, even when bad things happen. She uses her really smart brain to figure out how we can all feel better and be happy again.