In the study, 497 primary caregivers of 2½- to 3½-year-old children completed a widely used questionnaire to determine adult attachment, answering 32 questions about the nature of their close relationships. They also rated themselves on...
An international team of researchers reviewed more than 120 reports on the biological mechanisms underlying the relationship between childhood trauma and psychosis. They concluded that people experiencing psychosis should be offered...
This press release was issued by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Friday. Elizabeth, who is a member of ACEsConnection, began her job today. Congratulations, Elizabeth! Governor Scott Walker announced today that he has appointed Elizabeth Hudson to be...
Susan Broderick, assistant research professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, wrote this for Juvenile Justice Information Exchange: For the past several years, researchers and practitioners around the country have...
I'm sure everyone here is just crazy busy, as I feel often that I am. But, I'm going to ask anyway...I am looking for one or two volunteers who are well versed in basic parenting skills, ACEs Prevention, and/or Parent/Infant Bonding and...
Hotlinks to websites: http://ACEsTooHigh.com/got-your-ace-score http://www.ReachingInReachingOut.com
Ilana Yurkiewicz , third-year student at Harvard Medical School and a blogger for Scientific American, wrote this well-researched and well-written article for Aeon Magazine. It address individuals who are bullies and the hospital system that...
Based on her ethnographic study of psychiatric residency programs, anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann concluded psychiatry is “of two minds”: one “mind” emphasizes the role of neurochemistry, while the other...
January 28, 2014 [This is reposted from a comment I left on the ACEs in Foster Care group.] My Dear Colleague Jeff Bergstrom: This note is sent in reaction to your experience in the restaurant, regarding foster care. The interaction you had in June 2013 was fascinating, scary and probably an honest summary of some of the mis-information and the biased thinking that dominates segments of this country. I have been told that it is difficult to reason someone out of...
A program that provides a place for frazzled, angry parents to drop off their kids before the situation turns abusive plans to reopen Monday. The resurrection of the KPC Respite Center ends a nine-month closure that had left the region without a...
Our research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford showed that the week-long Project Welcome Home Troops intervention was successful, with our analyses showing significant decreases in PTSD and anxiety....
Prosecutors says the environment in the home is the biggest contributing factor to teen violence. It's a habit Jefferson County attorney's hope to break through counseling and intervention. "Those behaviors are learned, they're exposed to violence in...
Massage therapist Marriam Donovan says she grew up watching her stepfather beat her mother, so she's Donovan and hundreds of other women have received training under a program aimed at reaching victims of domestic violence through their...
We talk a lot about cortisol when we discuss trauma or adverse childhood experiences, and for good reason. While people a lot better educated than myself debate classifications and the symptomatology of trauma for the DSM and others create laundry...
This is the second part of a year-long series about domestic violence in Texas. Domestic violence incidents down, but cases can move slowly and programs lack funds. When Texas police officers answer an emergency domestic violence call these...