In this analysis, FrameWorks provides Alberta-based strategies for creating new ways of talking and thinking about child maltreatment and child sexual abuse. In 2014, the Canadian Medical Association Journal reported that approximately one third of...
Download the Summer 2015 Issue of Trauma Matters In this Issue: Trauma, Media Exposure, and Increased Tolerance to Violence: Its Impact on Empathy Role of Trauma Screening With Children and Families Ask the...
Mental health patients smoke more than three times as much as the general population, a Public Health England and NHS survey of 105 care units suggests. Smoking can increase depression and anxiety and reduce the effectiveness of medication by...
Jane Evans, a trauma therapist in England, posted this on Twitter the other day and I thought the message was terrific! Put on your Trauma Glasses, and you'll see things in a totally different way (how great is that?)
Children adopted from foster care and internationally are at significant risk of Attachment Trauma due to the many and chronic traumas they may have endured. While any child who has experience early trauma is at risk of it developing into Attachment...
As part of a series of editorials about transgender experiences, we are featuring personal stories that reflect the strength, diversity and challenges of the community. Welcome to this evolving collection. [See the collection here http://www.nytimes.com/interac...ll/transgender-today ]
Being a mother is arguably the nation’s most difficult job. Sadly, the playing field around the world is not a level one: A variety of indicators related to maternal well-being make motherhood in some countries more difficult (and even...
Daily Table opened its doors Thursday with shelves full of surplus and aging food. The nonprofit grocery store is in the low-to-middle income Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. It's selling canned vegetables two for $1 and a dozen...
More Los Angeles Unified students move in and out of juvenile detention than any other school district in the country. After release, their academic prospects have been dismal. Now a new effort mandated by the state legislature aims to improve...
A lot of excitement has been generated during the past year, thanks to Colby’s interest in a public/private partnership downtown. The chance to build on what we have and to make it better is energizing. While the work of strengthening...
Children with mothers in prison are more likely to have outside caregivers play a prominent role in their lives than those with an imprisoned father, according to research from Cornell University. Oklahoma has been No. 1 in female incarceration...
Peter Silverstone knows that, of all his professional accomplishments, none are more important than the work he's doing right now. "I said to my wife that this is probably the most important thing I'll ever do in my life, if I can get this...
Last month came the news that Josh Duggar, now-former executive director of the Family Research Council’s lobbying arm and eldest son on the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” had apologized and said he had “acted...
This opinion piece waswritten by Victor Vieth, the senior director & founder of the Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center. Josh Duggars admission to sexually abusing five children when he was a teenager has brought national attention to the issue of sexual offenses committed by juveniles. The fact that Duggars victims include members of his own family highlights one of the most difficult aspects of child sexual abuse. The Duggar case is not...
Can we recover from the legacy of slavery, lynching, land theft, disenfranchisement, redlining, job discrimination, and mass imprisonment? We turned to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter the Rev. Mpho Tutu for wisdom on this question....