Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes for March 2022

Did you know Resilient Wisconsin offers free webcasts on topics related to trauma and toxic stress? Check out the library of videos on the Resilient Wisconsin: Resources webpage.

ACEs, adversity's impact

• Resource: Integrating Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening into Clinical Practice: Insights from California Providers

• Childhood trauma and genetics linked to increased obesity risk

• Why deaths of despair are increasing in the US and not other industrial nations—Insights from Neuroscience and Anthropology

• Women's experiences of sexual assault and harassment linked with high blood pressure

• Child abuse actually decreased during COVID. Here’s why

• 10 ways childhood trauma manifests in adult relationships

• Stress, trauma, and autoimmune diseases: They’re more related than you think

• Black women who experienced racism in adolescence at higher risk of depression

• Past trauma impacts family connections after perinatal loss

• How chronic trauma can make a person controlling

• Helping children grieve the loss of a caregiver due to COVID-19

• 5 signs that your childhood may have negatively impacted you

Brain and biology

• Are pandemic-related stressors impacting uninfected people's brain health?

• More alcohol, less brain: Association begins with an average of just one drink a day

• Stress damages the movement centers in the brain

• ACEs and the resilient brain

• How early life experiences may affect brain wiring

• Will the pandemic leave a lasting mark on baby brains?

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• Opinion: Effective anti-violence efforts are trauma-informed

• Juvenile Court Judge Katherine Lucero now leads California’s historic migration from punishment to healing

DHS careers

• Client services assistant
• Northern Wisconsin Center facility director
• Occupational therapist
• Qualified intellectual disability professional
• Registered nurse
• Social worker

View all DHS career opportunities

Moral injury

• Employees are sick of being asked to make moral compromises
• Moral damage during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Moral injury and the complexities of adoption

• The trauma of war: PTSD and moral injury

• OP-ED | Teachers increasingly feel the threat of ‘Moral Injury’

• Coping when current events bring up past trauma

• Lacking mental health support, first responders turn to peers

Posttraumatic stress disorder

• I don’t know who I am any more’: working through trauma is about reconnecting

• Elder abuse: How to spot and stop it

• 'What My Bones Know' is Stephanie Foo's memoir on living with complex PTSD

• PTSD and relationships

• How to help your child cope with horrific images from the war in Ukraine

• PTSD prevalence among U.S. military veterans higher than previously estimated

Resilience

• How pediatricians can help mitigate the mental health crisis

• Counseling patients with ACEs using a strengths-based approach? Dr. Bob Sege has your back

• Positive parenting can reduce the risk that children develop obesity

• Podcast: The Brain Architects: Building Resilience Through Play

• Healing from sexual abuse: Recovery tips for survivors

• Healing the wounds that bind you

• Your keys to achieving post-traumatic growth

• Mindfulness meditation can reduce guilt, leading to unintended negative social consequences, study finds

• Stress is contagious: How to stop the spread & regain your health

• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy benefits people with depression through promoting self-kindness

Schools

I'm a college president. Teaching a 101-level course reminded me how important compassion is right now

Substance use disorder

• Lifesaving addiction treatment out of reach for many Americans

• Mindfulness therapy reduces opioid misuse and chronic pain in primary care, according to new research

• 2022 Wisconsin Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit

Trauma-informed care

• Brief: Incorporating racial equity into trauma-informed care
• Resources: April is Family Strengthening Month

• Recognizing and healing inherited trauma

• Why ‘trauma-informed’ care is spreading from the therapist’s office to yoga classes and tattoo parlors

• Use these de-escalation techniques to help keep staff, patients safe

• Healing generational trauma: For Black and Indigenous communities, it takes more than therapy and medicine to tackle mental illness. We need a holistic approach

• Why resorts should be trauma-informed: The case for a trauma aware spa

• The health care exodus is an untreated trauma crisis

• Monday Medical: When trauma impacts a person’s nutrition