"While journalists have a responsibility to report the news and spur high ratings, as professionals we have a duty to defuse the hype and get the particulars about PTSD right for the public. "The public needs to understand that individuals who...
"We're born with this extraordinary moral sense. A sense of right and wrong just comes naturally to humans and shows up in the youngest babies we can study. But this morality is limited. I think tragically limited. So we are morally attuned to those...
Abstract Because of the complexity and depth of problems facing children and families today, child protection can be best accomplished through a community effort--not simply through the efforts of the traditional child welfare system and other child-...
"As student affairs professionals, we often have the joys of hearing the stories of our students. We strive to encourage an open atmosphere where students are comfortable sharing, processing, and making meaning from their experiences. We like to think...
"The environment in which a person drinks may play a role in instances of domestic violence, new research has indicated. Published in the journal Addiction, the study found that while male violence is often linked to alcohol consumption away from the...
"Today's new findings show that: The absence of serotonin receptors during early development leads to highly aggressive and impulsive behaviors in mice. Impulsivity, but not aggression, returns to normal levels by reintroducing the receptors...
"Women veterans are two to four times more likely to be homeless than non-veteran women. This fact sheet from the National Center on Family Homelessness, a practice area of AIR's Human and Social Development program, contains information on the...
"The National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP), Legal Momentum and California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) have partnered together for a seven-part webinar series designed to support advocates in the U.S. who are working...
"The Every Child Promise started a year ago as a way to stem the tide of poverty, abuse and neglect, poor health and nutrition, and inadequate school readiness in children. "This month, dozens of “game-changing” recommendations emerged...
Abstract The population of Americans without homes, especially those with children, is becoming increasing diverse. As their diversity increases, so should provider efforts to accommodate those families by facilitating their transitions in more...
Love Wins On December 14, 2012 the nation and world were shaken to their core by news of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. On that Friday...
"I asked my teacher friend if she called the state hot line for suspected child abuse and maltreatment. She said that she did not. Here are some of her reasons. The school social worker said that the hot line takes the call, but the county does...
"They saw death, explosions, shelling. It is difficult to deal with the children because they are difficult psychologically" "The Syria n crisis – which has claimed the lives of 100,000 people so far – has been termed a...
"New research suggests that children who are exposed to domestic violence and depressed or anxious parents are more likely to lag in developing language, motor and social skills.... "It's not clear that these types of problems in the household...