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Bruce Perry leads one-day preconference university on trauma at National Council for Behavioral Health May 4
Experiences profoundly influence the development of young children. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) shape the brain’s organization, which, in turn, influences the emotional, social, cognitive, and physiological activities. Insights into...
Shhh, The Kids Can Hear You Arguing (Even When They're Asleep) by SHANKAR VEDANTAM April 29, 2013
Audio of an NPR radio broadcast. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/04/29/179237081/shhh-the-kids-can-hear-you-arguing-even-when-theyre-asleep
The loving touch is critical for premature infants
The benefit that premature infants gain from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers is measurable even 10 years after birth, reports a new study in Biological Psychiatry . In a new study, Dr. Ruth Feldman, a Professor at Bar-Ilan University, and her...
Wounded vets join child abuse battle
Federal officials say a children’s lobbying group, PROTECT, pitched the idea of incorporating wounded veterans in the fight against child pornography. ICE Special Agent Patrick Redling said the agency, where veterans account for 30 percent of...
This Is Anxiety (folo to Atlantic editor's essay on anxiety)
"Here’s what’s worked: nothing." Scott Stossel writes with resignation in the cover article for the current issue of The Atlantic , " Surviving Anxiety ." (Inside the magazine it's headlined "My Anxious, Twitchy, Phobic (Somehow...
Traumatic Childhood Experiences in the 21st Century--Broadening and Building on the ACE Studies With Data From the National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The study objectives were to (a) examine the association between total number of trauma types experienced and child/adolescent behavioral problems and (b) determine whether the number of trauma types experienced predicted youth behavioral problems...
Want to reduce mental illness? Address trauma. Want to save the world? Address trauma.
Different explanations have been given for the increased number of people suffering from mental illness. Some have claimed the increase is the result of ever-expanding diagnostic criteria and syndromes that risk medicalizing normal emotional...
In prison you get health care. When you're released ...
The Affordable Care Act now provides health care for low-income adults without children, including the approximately 300,000 who leave prison this year. Marketplace Dan Gorenstein looked at how former inmates may - or may not be - helped by this new...
Closing The 'Word Gap' Between Rich And Poor
Progress like Newell's stems from a special kind of parent-child interaction, says Dana Suskind, a professor of surgery and pediatrics at the University of Chicago, who started the 30 Million Words program. "We can't just have people saying 30 million...
Nonviolent Parent Spent Year Reuniting Family
This fascinating story, written by Anna Limontas Salisbury for WomensEnew.org , tells the story of Nancy Vivioda, who, without warning, had her five children removed from her and sent to five different foster homes for a year because her husband --...
Let's start with an introduction...
Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of such an important group of individuals, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Laura Mayo. I am the mother of a 10 year old son, Riese. Together we are survivors of alcoholic domestic violence, for me it...
We Aren't the World
This research has huge implications for ACE-, trauma-informed and resilience-building work around the globe. Although , so far, ACE surveys from different countries and on different sub-populations are finding similar results to the CDC's ACE Study...