Abstract Previous research has shown that exposure to parental verbal aggression is common and associated with increased levels of depression, anxiety, dissociation, and drug use. A key question that has not been addressed is whether verbal affection...
Dr. Porges says that whenever we do NOT get mammalian attachment, our nervous system pushes us back into reptilian freeze on auto pilot. We don't have a say; it's not cognitive. Furthermore, for attachment to work, we need what he calls...
California's first-in-the-nation gun restraining order legislation was born out of a college-town rampage that left six people dead at the hands of a killer whose family felt helpless to stop him. Advocates say its greatest use actually might...
The young journalists from VoiceWaves Long Beach spent the summer reporting on the impact trauma has on youth and immigrants. They interviewed teens who escaped gangs and local refugees who left war-torn countries behind but still suffer from...
It's pretty common for people to use disability metaphors like "That guy is crazy!" or "This weather is so bipolar" without giving it a second thought. It's important to realize how these words and metaphors can affect people with disabilities...
Although teens and young adults who abuse prescription painkillers face a high risk of overdose, most don't know how to respond when one occurs, new research shows. At issue is the increasingly popular, non-medicinal use of legal prescription...
In a new memoir, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Charles Blow opens up about abuse he has suffered, and inflicted in his life. He tells Michel Martin why he told his story in Fire Shut Up in My Bones. [Listen to or read the transcript of the interview online at http://www.npr.org/2014/10/02/...l-abuse-and-violence ]
A fascinating project for fostering resiliency from HopeLab: http://www.hopelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/HopeLab_Resilience_Initiative.pdf
A "mini-stroke" may increase your risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. Transient ischemic attack (TIA), like stroke, is caused by restricted blood supply...
Health affects children’s immediate well-being and success, and it also has lifelong implications for educational, social, and economic success. This brief uses data from the 2011/2012 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) to...
"It's ridiculous to think that these perfect flats are being boarded up and left to rot when there are people out in the streets with nowhere to go," says 20-year-old East Londoner Sam Middleton. She's sitting with her friend Jasmin Stone in an...
BRIDGE and San Francisco State University’s Health Equity Institute recently published a white paper, “Trauma-Informed Community Building,” (TICB) which articulates how BRIDGE is engaging residents at Potrero Hill Terrace and...
Trust pathways in the brain are set in infancy and passed on from mother to child, according to landmark UNSW-led research. The work relates to oxytocin levels in new mothers and proves for the first time that it is linked to their...
The 8th Amendment bans cruel and unusual punishment. Yet it happens every day in prisons across the country. Putting aside capital punishment, which I would argue is cruel and unusual on its face, Americans are ignoring a host of horrific...
Often it starts with a call for help. A family member, a caretaker or even a stranger dials 911 seeking paramedics to treat someone in a psychiatric crisis. But when there’s a threat of violence, the first responders are usually police,...