Therapy as institutional cover

After mass shootings institutions routinely deploy standardized mental‑health scripts and services. Those bureaucratic responses can function less as targeted clinical care than as a rapid reputational safety valve that reduces scrutiny of operational or security failures and can unintentionally undermine ordinary resilience. — Recognizing post‑crisis mental‑health programs as potential accountability shields forces colleges, hospitals, and governments to redesign both support services and failure‑investigation protocols so that compassion does not substitute for corrective action.