To determine whether or not a patient suffers from depression, a doctor will often refer to a checklist of symptoms found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), often called the “bible” of psychiatry. According...
“The greatest gift you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo The other day, when I was out celebrating a friend’s birthday, someone asked about the best gift I’d ever...
There's so mething that's always bothered me about advice for parents and caregivers. It assumes that to be a healthy mom/dad/caregiver all you need is more information.....about what to do or what not to do. But that doesn't address why the...
The primary focus of the second-annual See the Girl Summit hosted by the Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center at the Jessie Ball duPont Center on Thursday focused on that all of a girl’s experiences impact her needs and life. The summit,...
Think for a moment about what would happen if you upended the whole system of financial incentives for hospitals. What if you said goodbye to what's known as fee-for-service, where hospitals are paid for each procedure, each visit to the...
Have we finally turned a corner? Has it finally happened that when a man says he is making job decisions around his family we can finally believe him, as opposed to wondering when the email exchanges with his outside honey are going to come...
The highlight for me of the “Beyond ACE” Capitol Hill briefing—in addition to networking (more on that later)—was meeting Dr. Roy Wade, known to organizers of the event as “Dr. Roy.” I was familiar with his...
In the past five years, juvenile justice reform legislation in the United States has grown at a remarkable pace. The recent shift in juvenile justice policy marks a clear departure from laws enacted 20 years ago. After a dramatic increase in...
Minorities are more entrepreneurial than people give them credit for. Immigrants, in particular, are “a significant force in self-employment and in creating jobs,” according to a new Pew Research Center study of Census data...
Earlier this month, McGraw Hill found itself at the center of some rather embarrassing press after a photo showing a page from one of its high-school world-geography textbooks was disseminated on social media. The page...
The most famous mom in Baltimore is uneasy. It is noon on a Wednesday, and she is six hours into her shift driving addicts from a halfway house to a treatment center. She has only made $60 so far today, which is not nearly enough. She withdraws...
Most of the anorexia patients Dr. Joanna Steinglass sees in the inpatient eating-disorders unit at the New York State Psychiatric Institute have been to treatment before. While in the hospital or a residential treatment center, they generally...
When urban teens were asked to identify solutions for reducing violence in their New Haven, Connecticut community, their recommendations were loud and clear: They hoped for better employment opportunities, more after-school activities, and a cleaner...
In order to respond to our needs, we must know them in the first place. We must tune into ourselves and ask and listen. That’s where doing a regular check-in comes in. This simply involves asking ourselves a variety of questions to see...
Solace can be hard to find in times of grief. Which is why Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep is so incredible. The organization is made up of photographers who capture perhaps the most painful moments of parents' lives in a beautiful way...