Our public media colleagues over at KPCC, Southern California Public Radio, have a fascinating two-part report on the efforts of schools in the Los Angeles area to address the effects of "toxic stress" on student learning. "As researchers work to...
Delinquency in youth predicts a significantly higher rate of violent death in adulthood -- nearly twice the rate of combat troops in wartime Iraq and Afghanistan. Delinquent females -- among the most vulnerable -- died violently at nearly five times...
Increasingly, law enforcement has become the first line of contact for people with serious mental illness in crisis. Approximately 10 percent of police calls involve someone who is mentally ill, and how officers handle these calls can make the...
Young women aged 16 to 24 are most at risk of domestic violence. BBC3's Murdered By My Boyfriend aims to bring the message to schools Alone in her room getting ready for a night out, 19-year-old Ashley Jones pulls up her top and tries to pretend that...
A hearing will be held on June 17 in the California Assembly Health Committee on a resolution to encourage statewide policies to reduce children’s exposure to adverse childhood experiences. California took a page from Wisconsin’s playbook...
This is the first of two articles in the New York Times on new findings on timing and range of maternal mental illness. Postpartum depression isn’t always postpartum. It isn’t even always depression. A fast-growing body of...
.....With shootings happening with alarming frequency in schools, malls, movie theaters and streets across America, people are again asking if video games contribute to gun violence. And do so-called first-person shooter games have a particular impact...
… In "Do Fathers Matter? What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We've Overlooked," Paul Raeburn attempts to redefine fatherhood for the 21st century. A veteran science journalist, he also wrote "Acquainted With the Night: A Father's Quest...
This is the second of two articles in the New York Times on maternal mental illness. Cindy Wachenheim was someone people didn’t think they had to worry about. She was a levelheaded lawyer working for the State Supreme Court, a favorite aunt who...
This is about a major education paradigm shift. It is NOT about charter schools. The growing number of schools that the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) has handed over to charter operators is sad. The district’s “failing”...
Nora Baladerian is a clinical psychologist who specializes in helping people with disabilities who have been abused, mostly sexually abused. She directs the Disability & Abuse Project, which strives to reduce the risk of abuse, to promote healing, and to seek justice for people with developmental or intellectual disabilities who have been abused. Q. What kind of work do you do that involves ACEs? A. My primary work is providing psychotherapeutic treatment to...
[Fred R. Conrad photo] In an unglamorous pocket of Long Island City, Queens, between two of the nation’s largest public housing projects, dozens of women could tell comparable stories about Sister Tesa. Twenty-seven years ago, answering an open call from an older nun, she started a home for children whose mothers were in the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Last year she was honored by the White House. Now, on a drizzly May afternoon, she walked the battered streets of her...
[Kristen Moe photo] To say that Camden has a bad reputation would be an understatement. Indeed, Camden, just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, has about the worst of any city in America. It’s been ranked at various times as both the poorest and the most dangerous. In 2012, it ranked as the number-one most dangerous city in the country . It’s also one of the worst urban food deserts in the country. In September of 2013, the last centrally located grocery store closed...
...But going from no income and no job prospects to a job that pays $20,000 a year is still a tremendous step up. Empowerment training also helps people stop thinking about low-paying jobs as dead-end jobs and start viewing them as opportunities. The...
[Photo: Stephanie Loos/Reuters] A very poignant post from Tina Traster, who wrote Rescuing Julia Twice: A Mother's Tale of Russian Adoption and Overcoming Reactive Attachment Disorder . The headline doesn't do this essay justice. My hands hover over the computer keyboard. They are trembling. I hold down the shift key and type the words with intention, saying each letter aloud: “R-e-a-c-t-i-v-e A-t-t-a-c-h-m-e-n-t D-i-s-o-r-d-e-r.” The words “reactive...