Lawyers with a history of being treated for mental illness could find it easier to practice in Connecticut after what some say was an overdue change in questions posed to applicants to the bar. The Connecticut Bar Examining Committee recently decided...
The time is NOW- Please add your voice to end the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health care in Ohio. Call your elected leaders and state administrators and tell them the children of Ohio have waited long enough- it is time to ACT. Once...
The principal sponsor of the Vermont ACEs bill, Dr. George Till, has an ALE (not a typo) score of at least one. He describes losing six of seven sections of the ACEs legislation as an “Adverse Legislative Experience (ALE)”. But if...
This is an excerpt from AAP SmartBrief, May 23, 2014: Traumatic childhood experiences may have lasting effect on blood vessels U.S. researchers followed 221 healthy teens and young adults and found that those who experienced at least two adverse...
Dr. Bruce Perry, MD, National Council, Washington, May 4: I had to transcribe a few quotes that really hit me hard from his speech, to provoke you to watch his whole video: “Born for Love: “Why Empathy is Essential – and...
Illustration credit: Matthew Woodson, New York Times Bessel van der Kolk sat cross-legged on an oversize pillow in the center of a smallish room overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. He wore khaki pants, a blue fleece zip-up and square...
Photo credit: Tatiana Vdb, Flickr Maternal depression is more common at four years following childbirth than at any other time in the first 12 months after childbirth, and there needs to be a greater focus on maternal mental health,...
If a friend or a co-worker takes us aside and confides that he has been diagnosed with cancer, we give him a shoulder to lean on. We ask what we can do. But most of all, we care. We understand. But if that same individual tells us he has been...
Screening for suicide risk in adolescent, adult, and senior patients in the absence of definite risk factors has no proven benefit in the primary care setting, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said. In an update to a 2004...
"The Critical Role of Parenting in Human Development" by Marianna S. Klebanov and Adam D. Travis, published by Routledge (Francis & Taylor Group) will be released August 2014. It is available for presale: Critical Role of Parenting
Illustration by Gary Locke, MarketWatch Roughly 23 million Americans are addicted to alcohol or drugs, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a federal agency. And while SAMHSA says only 2.5 million...
Illustration credit: Maëlle Doliveux, New York Time s Most of our closest friends didn’t know that we struggled with depression. It just wasn’t something we discussed with our high school classmates. We found that we both had...
America incarcerates more people than any other country in the world both on an absolute and per-capita basis. As of 2012, the U.S. had 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. By comparison, Japan had 63 prisoners per 100,000, Germany had 90, Britain had...
Photo credit: Lloyd Morgan, Flickr Men and women are most likely to have suicidal thoughts within a year of a marriage or de-facto relationship breakup, new ANU research has found. The vulnerability may be due to the trauma of the breakup, along...
Dr. Vincent Fellitti enlightens us to the fact that ACE goes unrecognized because for many of us our adverse childhood experiences are lost in time and protected by shame, by secrecy, and by social taboos against routinely exploring certain realms of...