Matthew Haney, commissioner of the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education, and Neva Walker, executive director of Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth in San Francisco, wrote this op-ed for sfgate.com (San...
Here's one researcher's take on compassion. Would asking about ACEs be another? Or does compassion enter in HOW a physician or nurse asks about ACEs? "Good to see you. I'm sorry. It sounds like you've had a tough, tough, week." Spoken by a doctor to a...
This "mini-review" by Ulrike Ehlert at the University of Zurich in Switzerland appeared in the September issue of Psychoneuroendocrinology: There is increasing evidence of a strong interconnectivity between genetic dispositions, epigenetic...
Somehow, in recovering from dental surgery and not paying attention to much of anything except sleeping and reading mysteries, I missed this study published by researchers at the MARCS Institute Babylab at the University of Western Sydney....
Monique Morris, co-founder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute and author of Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century , interviewed black girls in juvenile detention in Northern...
THIS -- an essay adapted from Atlantic magazine editor Scott Stossel's upcoming book -- will rev up your anxiety just reading it, even if you're not the anxious type. Here are the first two graphs: I’ve finally settled on a pre-talk regimen...
...and that's just the beginning of this glance at high school and college graduation rates across the U.S. If you dug into these dropout rates, no doubt you'd find layers of ACEs and few support systems. This is another reason for making sure schools...
The Stearns County Domestic Violence Program is hiring a child advocate to help connect kids who have witnessed violence or other traumatic events with proper mental health care. “We’re very excited about the opportunity to have child...
If you haven't heard Act 1 from this 2006 episode, it's guaranteed to bring you to tears (of joy) and, perhaps, inspire you. And it provides a very interesting insight into what it takes to successfully provide unconditional love to a child who's...
It's common to think that offering just comforting words and encouraging traumatized youngsters to forget their ordeals is protecting them, but that's "not doing them any favors," said University of Pennsylvania psychologist Edna Foa, the lead author....
When a man in Israel was accused of sexually abusing his young daughter, it was hard for many people to believe -- a neighbor reported seeing the girl sitting and drinking hot chocolate with her father every morning, laughing, smiling, and looking...
In Connecticut, the Sandy Hook shootings led to the passage of legislation to strengthen the state's mental health system and intensified efforts to train personnel to screen for trauma in pediatric, school, juvenile justice, welfare and other...
Freelance journalist Charlotte Silver interviewed Vincent Felitti and me for this story, which was published on Alternet on Tuesday. Here's the beginning: A man, 50, begins to experience shortness of breath and aching chest pains. He goes to his...
The study is the first in which researchers linked anxiety and stroke independent of other factors such as depression. Anxiety disorders are one of the most prevalent mental health problems. Symptoms include feeling unusually worried, stressed,...