The last people to leave Riverside Church at midnight were always the homeless men and women who sat for hours on wooden pews in the hallway to escape the frigid air. They were also the first to return at 6 a.m. when the doors reopened. So the...
From the February bulletin of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network: In the first article: "Trauma Tre atment in Young Children with Developmental Disabilities: Applications of the Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Model to the Cases of...
Two of my friends have killed themselves recently and I want badly to know how to help others deal with suicidal thoughts and depression with more than psychotropic medications. When I wrote INVISIBLE CHILDREN in 2005 , a...
In stressful family circumstances, parenthood sometimes take a bigger toll on fathers' mental health. Scholars at Brigham Young University and Princeton conducted research that gives a better look at how various types of parents...
College-educated and gainfully employed 36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi should be a sought-after friend or date, planning nights on the town and faraway resort vacations. But she works in Japan, a nation where workaholic habits die hard. Often...
You’ve heard the sex trafficking story before. A woman from a foreign country is brought to live in the US in a dirty apartment and forced to have sex with people until the police step in, she escapes or she dies. This is just one example...
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says the company is ready to take a stand against trolls, and he's personally leading the campaign to boot abusers off the social media platform. San Francisco-based Twitter has come under fire for its platform's continued...
On a recent Sunday afternoon in the tightly packed slum of Narela at the edge of Delhi, a group of children sat on a bright green rug amid broken tiles, bricks and bits of wood, engrossed in an animated discussion about their neighborhood. Hens...
It’s no secret that the years since the Great Recession have been hard on American workers. Though unemployment has finally dipped below six per cent, real wages for most have barely budged since 2007. Indeed, the whole century so far has...
Some years ago in Southern California, a 400-pound lesbian decided that life with her 300-pound partner and their three adopted children wasn’t worth living, so she drove into a semi truck, crushing her legs and hips and leaving her in...
15 years ago, my colleagues and I held a party in Catford to celebrate the launch of the first time bank in a UK health centre. The idea was to make mutual support possible among patients, their families and their neighbours, and I wanted to...
Traffic slows to a crawl, then a stop. You are trapped in a bottleneck nightmare, and late for a meeting. The stress takes a toll on you psychologically -- but your body is at risk as well, according to a Tel Aviv University researcher. A new...
In each police-related death recently dominating the headlines, authorities overreacted to black men’s behaviors as if they were life-threatening. On Staten Island, an unarmed Eric Garner was wrestled to the ground by five police officers...
Almost half of Minnesota’s county child protection directors say they are so short-staffed that they cannot respond to reports of child abuse in the time required by law. Only 60 percent of counties said they have the staff needed to make...
Emotions ran high last month during the final episode of the popular NBC series "Parenthood." The series, centered around the Braverman family, brought honest conversations about depression, substance use, mental health, aging, cancer and other...