A new brain-imaging technique enables people to 'watch' their own brain activity in real time and to control or adjust function in pre-determined brain regions. The study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro, McGill...
Molly Rowan Leach wrote a story for opendemocracy.net about how police and the community in Longmont, CO, learned about and embraced restorative justice. Some of the details in the event that involved Officer Greg Ruprecht, who's interview in...
The staff at Right Step’s adolescent drug rehab in Dallas has become Tier-One certified in collaborative problem-solving. This makes Right Step the nation’s first residential addiction treatment center for teens to implement...
Thousands of documents detailing the Archdiocese of Chicago’s often halting response to sexual abuse allegations against 30 priests were posted online Tuesday after eight years of negotiations between victim advocates and Roman...
A thickening of the brain cortex associated with regular meditation or other spiritual or religious practice could be the reason those activities guard against depression – particularly in people who are predisposed to the disease, according to...
In the 2010 reporting year, there were 15 abuse or neglect deaths in which DCFS had had some involvement with the family within a year of the death, according to a Sun-Times and WBEZ investigation published in November. The spike in deaths to 34 in...
The national child sex abuse inquiry will sit this week to hear further evidence on two case studies - the YMCA NSW and the Catholic Church's abuse complaints procedure. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse ended...
"When parents learn a new way to respond to their kids and can address the fear beneath the behaviors, the children heal, their brains heal," said Denise Combs, a licensed marriage and family therapist who has taught the workshops for agencies in...
The survey, commissioned by national charity YoungMinds... questioned 2,000 children and young people aged 11 to 25, found: • More than half of school pupils believe they will be a failure if they don't achieve good exam grades • A...
A new study found that children who were bullied during P.E. class or other physical activities were less likely to participate in physical activity one year later. Overweight or obese children who experienced teasing during physical activity had a...
Many people have said that at the very heart of understanding adverse childhood experiences is that love is the cure and the prevention. Not just love manifested in the caring of one individual for another, whether that be parent to child, friend to...
“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life,” the president told the New...
The participants have a history of domestic violence. The most serious charge for a prisoner in the class was attempted murder and elevated aggravated assault against a partner, she said. Wotton said she believes the program impacted the...
Dr. Mike Rosmann wrote this for Iowa Farmer Today: One of the ways my wife, Marilyn, and I like to help our adult children is by providing childcare for their infants so the parents can return to their professions. We spent several weeks during the...