Before the new school year begins, here’s a pop quiz for parents of middle-school children: What do you do when your child brings home a bad report card? A. Lecture the child. B. Restrict her activities, such as participating in sports or...
As someone who was diagnosed with a third mental illness last year, I can be overly sensitive to what people say or do around me. It got me thinking… How many times do kind, well-meaning people slip up and say something that causes more...
Big Think and the Mental Health Channel are proud to launch Big Thinkers on Mental Health , a new series dedicated to open discussion of anxiety, depression, and the many other psychological disorders that affect millions...
Mental illness is an intangible thing that can be all but impenetrable to those who don't experience it. That's why the U.K.-based artist Toby Allen decided to draw different mental illnesses as monsters, as a way of helping himself...
Vice President Joe Biden called domestic violence a "public health epidemic" that requires urgent attention in an address Friday to an audience of the country's preeminent medical, public health and domestic violence experts. "All of you in...
For parents with multiple kids under one roof, being poor has a compounding effect. That’s why in America, children make up 23 percent of the population but 33 percent of all people in poverty . If that isn’t staggering...
I n August, Partner for Healing explored treatment. We focused on several common treatment dilemmas and shared ideas for healing. In the first post we examined Is the Push for Change Making Your Treatment Less Effective ? As treaters we...
Register now for the September 29-30 "Building a Trauma-Informed Nation" event in Washington, DC, or at "Amplifier Sites" around the country. The information contained on this site provides details on how this innovative format will work with people...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-trauma-training-20150827-story.html
The State of Alaska publishes an annual dashboard of information about abuse and sexual assault . The information is pretty good, but I always wonder about underestimation of the problem because of the criminal nature of the acts published. There is...
In the late 1990’s, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) set out to provide the most extensive review ever conducted of the effectiveness of ADHD medications in children. It was known as the Multisite Multimodal Treatment Study...
A number of years ago, I asked Fran Ulmer, Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC), to facilitate a conversation among Chugachmiut (the organization I was leading), with the University of Alaska and the Alaska Native Tribal Health...
About 13,000 people on public assistance tumble into homelessness every month in Los Angeles County, according to a new study that experts say provides the clearest picture yet of extreme poverty in the region. Although many quickly find work...
The San Antonio Express-News ( http://bit.ly/1Eixf8Q ) reports her introduction to the challenges — and sorrow — of mental health problems started when she was young, the daughter of a minister who also was a counselor. She...
Question: Though the city is out of the schools business, city government has a role in the lives of its younger citizens. What would you do to enhance the lives of young people? Leo Awgowhat: Teach children to Just say “no”...