There are apps for losing weight, and apps that encourage people to exercise more. Then there are apps aimed at improving your mental health. A growing number of mobile applications are designed to help people track and manage their emotions...
A mind-altering drug called ketamine is changing the way some doctors treat depression. Encouraged by research showing that ketamine can relieve even the worst depression in a matter of hours, these doctors are giving the drug to some of their...
On any given day, about half a million children are living in foster care. They've been removed from violent or abusive households; many suffer physical and mental health problems that have gone untreated. Their need is acute but the response...
Jonathan Bartels is a nurse working in emergency care. He says witnessing death over and over again takes a toll on trauma workers — they can become numb or burned out. But about two years ago, after Bartels and his team at...
A new study finds that a family intervention can help anxious parents raise calm kids. Children of anxious parents are at an increased risk of developing anxiety, but that doesn’t have to be the case, according to new research by...
Don’t despair. According to Ta-Nehisi Coates, that’s what President Obama told him at the end of a White House meeting in 2013. Coates had criticized the president on his blog for favoring the rhetoric of black self-help over an...
It’s Field Day at Pleasant View Elementary School and at the moment, there’s a crisis with the bouncy house. “No, no, it’s not supposed to go there,” says Principal Gara Field into her mobile phone as she rushes out...
The benefits of mindfulness are both well-established and wide-ranging . Studies on subjects ranging from college students to Marines have found the practice reduces stress and leads to higher levels of well-being. But...
In 1997, when a casino resort opened on the Cherokee reservation in western North Carolina, family life got a little easier. The tribal government, which owned the casino, distributed a portion of its profits to every adult in the...
Ivy Avenue Wellness Center, sponsored by Columbia Pacific Coordinated Care Organization, is scheduled to open Oct. 1 to help Tillamook County residents suffering from chronic pain. More than 500,000 Oregonians are estimated to suffer from persistent...
Juvenile justice reformers risk leaving girls behind if they fail to consider how traumatic experiences push girls into the system, says a new report . Officials and advocates are more aware than ever of the way trauma affects...
A diverse group of school staff, mental health professionals, justice advocates, and city employees recently crowded the Moot Court Room at the University of the District of Columbia David E. Clark Law School to begin dismantling the school to prison...
Building a Trauma-Informed Nation -- conference, amplifier sites and webcast -- starts this Tuesday morning. About 250 people are converging in the Cesar Chavez Auditorium at the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, DC. Hundreds -- perhaps...
The residents of the Harriet Tubman Women’s Shelter rose at 3 a.m. on Thursday to give everyone time to shower, fix their hair and get dressed in the best clothes they had after years on and off the streets, coping with evictions, abuse...
In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan , he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base. “At night...