As we've learned since the most recent economic crisis, the inability of Americans to pick up and move for new jobs or new housing often comes hand in hand with an inability to climb up the socio-economic ladder. Now new research finds that...
Early-childhood development is the rare issue that unites liberals and conservatives, nearly all of whom agree that the first few years of a child's life are a time of crucial social and intellectual formation. Yet policymakers and educators rarely...
Kids' math and reading skills when they start kindergarten can vary greatly based on their social and economic status, according to a new study. “We knew economic circumstances have an impact on early child development, but it was...
Laws intended to protect children from abuse and neglect are not being properly enforced, and the federal government is to blame. That's according to a study by the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law,...
By day, Andrea Letamendi was a model doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of California, San Diego, who kept her head down while concentrating on her research on post-traumatic stress in Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans....
For many, the phrase “psychiatric asylum” conjures up haunting and disturbing images: lobotomy procedures, drugged and restrained patients, the creepy facility in the movie “Shutter Island,” the cruel Nurse Ratched...
“Desensitizing people to past horrors rarely prepares them to be fully available to deal with post-combat realities.” Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD (NY Times Comment) Although written in the context of veterans, Dr. Van Der Kolk’s...
I have wondered what resilience truly is. Reading Tina Marie Hahn's comments on resilience helped me achieve a better understanding. I agree that resilience is not something we are born with. We talk about resilience in a couple of ways....
January 27, 2015 Dear Colleague, A special issue of the Journal of Women’s Health, released on January 22, details how intimate partner violence (IPV) has a profound impact on the health of our nation’s women and girls. Such violence...
To the Editor: Re “Redefining Mental Illness,” by T. M. Luhrmann (Op-Ed, Jan. 18): While many experiences — such as hearing voices — can occur without illness, a psychiatric diagnosis is more than a single symptom. The...
The true-crime podcast “Serial” was a phenomenon, in part, because it was told in the first person. The narrator, Sarah Koenig, all but whispered the story into our ears, and her brainiac sensibility was as interesting as the killing at...
Public schoolteachers would undergo more suicide prevention education under a proposal from a bipartisan group of New Jersey lawmakers. An Assembly committee approved the measure late last year while State Senator Diane B. Allen, a Republican,...
Across the country, efforts to make marijuana more accessible have quickly gained traction. Medical marijuana is now legal in 23 states, and recreational use is also legal in four states and the District of Columbia. Science, however, hasn't...
With the attached ACEs history synopsis, we wanted to start out with what our team at UWECI has done in the last several years and looking forward to our future plans.
Dr. Adrienne Coopey, a board certified pediatric and adult psychiatrist with Mission Hospital in Buncombe County, North Carolina, is taking action in the prevention and healing from ACEs. In her recent article on Citizen-Times, Dr. Coopey does...