A Saint Louis University research paper published online March 16 in JMIR Mental Health explores the feasibility of helping low-income mothers through postpartum depression using text messages. Corresponding author Matthew A. Broom, M.D.,...
This makes total sense: When you're engaged in an activity you truly enjoy, you're happy. And, when you're happy you're not dwelling on all the negative things in life, nor are you stressed about obligations or problems. Certainly this is a...
In most states, mentally ill people deemed incompetent to stand trial are transferred to a state hospital, where they are given limited treatment that may include medication and therapy. But demand for such treatment services now exceeds the...
Fading fast at 11 p.m., Elizabeth texted her dealer and waited just 30 minutes for him to reach her third-floor New York apartment. She handed him a wad of twenties and fifties, received a tattered envelope of pills, and returned to her...
Every day a child somewhere will suffer from abuse and neglect, the result of growing up in a home with domestic violence, mental illness or addiction, or from the loss of a parent due to separation or imprisonment. Such trauma can...
If college admissions brochures are to be believed, American universities are thriving havens of not only racial diversity but also of racial harmony. Diverse student groups study and socialize together in marketing photos where everyone...
Over the past two decades, there has been a meteoric rise in the number of children – now estimated to be 1 in 6 – diagnosed and treated for a range of psychological disturbances including ADHD, autism, mood disorders, and learning...
I recently attended a meeting of social entrepreneurs and other leaders from business, government, philanthropy, academia and the nonprofit sector at an event called the Gathering of Leaders, hosted by New Profit, a Boston-based national...
Where children grow up matters. The environment to which people are exposed in their childhood plays a significant role in their adult life, according to health leaders who presented at the 12th annual Children’s Summit of Merced County....
Memphis has always been a place for new ideas, of course music but so much more than that. Holiday Inn's were founded here. Bayer Aspirin, AutoZone, and FedEx grew up here and the list goes on and on. Next Monday, April 20, another new idea...
Every day a child somewhere will suffer from abuse and neglect, the result of growing up in a home with domestic violence, mental illness or addiction, or from the loss of a parent due to separation or imprisonment. Such trauma can inflict...
It's safe to assume that every Montanan is against child abuse. But tragically, it happens all the time, the incidents of child abuse are actually increasing, and the impacts of abuse on the most vulnerable of Montana's citizens — our...
Children who experience multiple traumatic events, from emotional and sexual abuse to neglect, have higher blood pressures as young adults than their peers, researchers report. The difference of 10 points in the systolic pressure – the...
Every once in a while I write something that has nothing to do with trauma. Not in an obvious way anyhow. But I can't help but be me so even poetry by Hafiz seems to be about attachment to me. Out of a great need we are holding...
Obesity researcher Mary Forhan has a vision of what the care of people with obesity should be like. Sadly, the reality is very different. "Often standard hospital equipment including beds, stretchers, wheelchairs and exercise equipment don't...