Here's the abstract from this paper by Heather Larkin, Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda, published in Social Work in Public Health: Medical research on “adverse childhood experiences” (ACEs) reveals a compelling relationship between...
Medicalxpress.com reporter Diane Toroian Keaggy interviewed Connie Diekman, director of university nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. Among the stress-fighting foods: whole grains, hot tea and nuts. "Some foods appear to soothe us;...
Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used the Communities That Care prevention system during the teens' middle...
UC Irvine researchers discovered that six or more daily hours of watching, reading or listening to media reports of the Boston Marathon bombings in the week afterward was linked to "more acute stress than having been at or near the marathon,"...
Huffington Post's Maxwell Strachan did this quick analysis of the effects of the cuts made last month to the food stamp program, which affected 47 million people. Critics of the food stamp program claim that the government is too careless with...
The developmental psychologist [Jennie Noll] now serves in a pivotal role in the university's burgeoning effort to become a national leader in the study and prevention of child abuse, an undertaking resulting from the scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Noll, who started in September as director of research and education for the study and prevention of child abuse, is one of five experts the university has hired, with at least nine more to come. Noll is helping...
Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child profiles Acelero Learning in New York City, Westside Infant-Family Network in Los Angeles, and Catholic Community Services of the Mid-Willamette Valley and Central Coast in Oregon. All three...
Eric Jaffe reviews Charles Montgomery's book, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design , on Atlanticcities.com. In this spirit of empirical discovery, Montgomery takes readers around the world in search of the places where urban...
Robin Balbernie, clinical director of Parent Infant Partnership in Great Britain, reviews the significance of early ACEs in neurological development, parenting's neurobiological role in brain development, and makes the point that "parenting...
Latest from Chapter 3 of "Don’t Try This at Home-The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder- How I accidentally regressed myself back to infancy and healed it all" at AttachmentDisorderHealing.com/book/ Last time, I wrote that just when I...
I've blogged a lot about some really awful trauma here, and will again -- but there's something I've been meaning to tell you about the healing part, aka "resilience." It has to do with Mindfulness and Emotional Object Constancy. Mindfulness...
In the video below, Jane Fonda speaks out to say: “Save our children from the violent decline of our society by teaching emotional literacy to boys." Thank you, Lou Godbold for posting the Fonda clip on Facebook!...
The pretty South African woman sitting next to me said our flight from Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth was taking longer than expected, although I hadn’t noticed. I arrived in South Africa only a few hours before. Jet lagged, I was wrestling with...
Here's another great video from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University: Extensive biological and developmental research shows significant neglect—the ongoing disruption or significant absence of caregiver...