Fifteen years ago I didn’t think about resilience at all. I was fresh out of graduate school and looking for a job. I was hired as a disabilities and mental health coordinator for a Head Start program that, at the time, was located in the 501 st...
Toxic Stress, Toxic Streets from H2O PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo . We’re proud to share “Toxic Stress, Toxic Streets,” a music video from the brilliant and talented students of Leadership High School in collaboration with H20 Productions...
[Mina De La O via Getty Images] Duke University professor emeritus Allen Frances, who chaired the DSM-IV task force wrote this for Huffington Post: I am a great supporter of mental-health research but worry that it has lost its sense of proportion and is chasing the wrong priorities. The really glamorous stuff consumes almost all of the enormous NIMH budget and now has behind it the huge addition of a $650-million private donation aimed at solving the genetics of mental illness. Neuroscience...
[Photo: AP] The nation's largest prison system has spent more than $36.5 million on psychotropic drugs to treat thousands of offenders in the past four years, according to federal Bureau of Prisons data supplied to USA TODAY. Nearly 10% of the 216,000 inmates are receiving medications designed to treat an array of illnesses, from depression and bipolar disorder to acute schizophrenia. The BOP's disclosure comes as government officials have raised questions about the costs of confining such...
If you’re a rich mom, addiction is a health issue. If you’re poor, rural, or a person of color, addiction is a crime. Women at the lower rungs of the economic ladder can have their children taken away if they are found to be using drugs or...
[California State Reform School in Whittier, 1910] Despite California’s steep decline in juvenile crime and incarceration rates, the state is spending millions of dollars helping counties finance the renovation and expansion of juvenile halls and camps. The California Board of State Community Corrections (BSCC), the agency overseeing adult and juvenile correctional facilities, will give out nearly $80 million available in lease-revenue bonds to support expansion of the bed capacity in...
ACEsConnection members Christopher Anderson and Jaime Romo, along with Les Gallo-Silver, co-authored this article in the summer 2014 issue of The Permanente Journal. The health care literature describes treatment challenges and recommended...
[Photo: Human Rights Watch] The latest flare-up in the Middle East catches children in the midst of their long-anticipated summer break. The wail of sirens replaces the jingle of ice cream trucks, and boys and girls dash to a bomb shelter instead of playing tag at the park. Young people are enduring a summer of violence, devastation, panic, and isolation. What are the long-term effects of these conditions? A new study published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress by Prof. Michelle Slone of...
When a person experiences a devastating loss or tragic event, why does every detail seem burned into memory whereas a host of positive experiences simply fade away? It's a bit more complicated than scientists originally thought, according to a study...
I recently worked with three groups of eighth- and ninth-grade students. All of the groups are comprised of students of color from families in poverty, which means they qualify for free or reduced-price lunch under a California program whose cutoff is...
[Photo: USNavy] Childhood traumas are more common among military members and veterans than among civilians, according to a new study. Researchers say the results support the notion that for some, enlistment serves as an escape from troubled upbringings. The study is the largest to examine how common bad childhood experiences are among military men and women. Disparities were most striking among men during the volunteer era: More than 25 percent had experienced at least four childhood...
Our book, The Critical Role of Parenting in Human Development ( by Marianna S. Klebanov and Adam D. Travis) is now available and about to be released in print. It describes recent research (including the ACE Study) to illustrate the...
Are You In Michigan??... Here we care about optimal Child Development.... So I wanted to add their website so If you have good ideas for a grant application to promote optimal child development in Michigan... See the link below... T he W.K. Kellogg...
Harsh physical punishment of children may reduce the amount of grey matter in some area of the prefrontal cortex, resulting in a variety of mental health disorders. How to discipline the next generation is a hotly debated topic. In 2012, a national...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons Mental health research has just received a large influx of funding. Ted Stanley is giving $650 million to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to find and treat the genetic underpinnings of mental...