More than a third of women and more than a quarter of men in the United States have been raped, physically assaulted, or stalked by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. Unfortunately, one strategy for reducing those numbers,...
Violent crime rates have decreased dramatically over the past three decades, largely due to crime prevention efforts that focus on the root causes of violence, researchers say. Murders in the United States have dropped by more than half, from a...
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As I have written before, my advocacy for increased recognition of ACE's is tempered by a scientific process. When I look at outcomes, I focus not only on "negative" outcomes, but have expanded the impact of unresolved childhood trauma to include...
I have shamed myself. Not deliberately, but nevertheless actively. I never dreamed that one day I would research and write about healing psychological trauma. Or the perils of the mental health field. Or its pearls. It was really a matter...
Through times of trauma and distress, often all a child needs is to be showered with love. It may sound corny, but for the estimated 100,000 children who are sexually exploited per year around the country, it can be transformative....
Dante was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Aim Higher, Inc ., an organization that provides disability services, hastily assessed Dante with a standard questionnaire, asking him vague questions such as, “Does he/she display aggressive...
Students returning to class at the University of Texas System’s campuses this fall will be participating in the nation’s most comprehensive study on sexual assaults ever conducted in higher education. The University of Texas System...
A national policy dialogue on preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) was held in Belgrade, Serbia on 14 July 2015, hosted by the City Institute of Public Health of Belgrade, the Ministry of Health and WHO. Around 40 participants attended,...
School integration has shrunk steadily for nearly three decades: Ever since 1988, the number of black students and white students who attend school together has decreased. And the achievement gap between black and white...
Trauma may cause distinct and long-lasting effects even in people who do not develop PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), according to research by scientists working at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry. It is already known...
Abstract: This article examines how people of color can biologically inherit the deleterious effects of white racism. Drawing primarily on the field of epigenetics, I demonstrate how transgenerational racial disparities are in fact racist...
It’s a familiar scene near highway junctions. The cardboard signs, the dirty, sun-stained faces, and the religious sentiment, “God bless.” Familiar, yet uncomfortable. It is easier to ignore the person standing near the...
The U.S. Congress may soon be following California’s lead in requiring states to provide data on the academic progress of all homeless and foster youth and provide additional resources to those students. A bill amending...
By all rights, 96th Street Elementary School in Watts shouldn't be busy on a summer morning. School doesn't start until Aug. 18, and the front door is hemmed in by construction fencing to boot. But parents keep popping by the plain brick...