Experts say exposure to trauma and other significant stress early in life can have profound effects on children’s development and the way they see the world. Those running Connecticut’s Medicaid program see the impact in...
Here are some guidelines for behavior management in foster care. They are only meaningful when imbedded in a context of training, supervision and support. 1. This approach to behavior management is based on the understanding that problem...
A nice walk through a city park can do wonders for a work-weary brain, reducing mental fatigue and improving attention. But if you're trapped on the high floors of an office tower all day, you can't exactly break for a long stroll...
Last December a Senate Intelligence Committee report revealed how two psychologists were involved in shaping the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” methods, using psychologist Martin Seligman's theory of learned helplessness to justify...
"I kept doing the body scan to feel calm," a fifth grade student explained to my colleagues as he recollected coping with a stressful situation at home. A "body scan" involves checking in with your body and noticing how it feels in the present...
A majority of American adults say they've tried dieting to lose weight at some point in their lives, and at any given time, about one-third of the adult population say they're currently dieting. Yet 60 percent of American adults are...
Anxiety disorders affect approximately one in six adult Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. The most well-known of these include panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and...
Adults who experienced multiple incidents of childhood maltreatment were more than two times as likely to have trouble sleeping than their counterparts who were not maltreated during childhood, according to a new study from researchers at the...
Tear down more state youth prisons, and spend the money saved on community-based alternatives to incarceration. Doing so, juvenile justice advocates say, would reduce overall youth crime and recidivism, keep nonviolent offenders from being...
ayleb Moon-Robinson was 11 years old last fall when charges — criminal charges — began piling up at school. Diagnosed as autistic, Kayleb was being scolded for misbehavior one day and kicked a trash can at Linkhorne Middle School in...
Three New York State mental health treatment facilities participating in a project to decrease the use of seclusion and restraint for children with severe emotional disorders demonstrated significant decreases in restraint and seclusion episodes per...
Only 6% of spend on mental health services is directed towards children and adolescents despite strong evidence that 50% of lifetime mental illnesses, excluding dementia, start by the age of 14. There has been a growing public and political...
When children and their parents first visit Northeast Treatment Centers (NET) Children’s Behavior Health Services in Philadelphia, they fill out a 10-question survey about their adverse childhood experiences so that therapists can tailor...
To survive growing up in a sexually abusive home, you had to deny what you witnessed, felt, and experienced. You had to numb and repress it. Like every child, you thought you could trust your family, the people who were supposed to love...
“GO ... go. Sonja — go!” I hear my name, and sprint out into the middle of the projects. I’m supposed to kick the man in front of me, as hard as I can. It’s a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. The...