A 15-year-old boy was arrested in Tennessee on suspicion of murder. His family could not afford the $500,000 bail, so he had to wait for his trial in prison. In solitary confinement. For about two years.... "Prison officials have free...
The End to Domestic Violence Lies in Our Own Hands Earlier this summer, I publically came forward as the third woman sexually assaulted by San Diego Mayor Bob Filner. At the time, he was a United States Congressman, and Chairman of the...
from Chapter 2 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/ After my divorce and the saga with...
"The Central Iowa ACEs Steering Committee, a public/private partnership, added questions to the 2012 Iowa Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to understand and document ACEs in the Iowa population. The BRFSS is an annual state health...
"More punishment does not necessarily lead to less crime, say researchers at ETH Zurich who have been studying the origins of crime with a computer model. In order to fight crime, more attention should be paid to the social and economic backgrounds...
Abstract Objectives To determine whether depression and anxiety in adulthood are associated with abuse exposure in childhood. Methods A search of PUBMED, EMBASE and PSYCHINFO databases (2002–2012) was supplemented by hand searches of...
ACEsConnection members Dr. Robert Anda, Dr. Vincent Felitti, and Dr. Gary Giovino co-authored this 1999 paper. Abstract CONTEXT: In recent years, smoking among adolescents has increased and the decline of adult smoking has slowed to nearly a...
"Imagine suffering from a mental illness and waiting up to a decade to get a proper diagnosis, all the while taking the wrong medications. This is an unfortunate reality for some patients suffering from bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive...
“The only girls that should ever be there are the ones at risk to public safety,” said Abby Anderson, the leader of the state’s Juvenile Justice Alliance. She observed that many of these children are foster children.... "...To say...
If anything is grieving you at all seriously (are you human) please read the “Grief Recovery Handbook” by John James and Russell Friedman - and do the process. It works. Grief Recovery Method.com posted this photo today: "Sadly, most of...
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," goes the playground rhyme that's supposed to help children endure taunts from classmates. But a new study suggests that there's more going on inside our brains when someone snubs us...
"In a recently published article in the Journal of Health Communication , Lincoln, Arford, Prener, Garverich, and Koenen (2013) highlight concerns about the use of potentially triggering language in existing and frequently used health literacy...
[MUST-LISTEN video of psychiatrist about how police escalated & killed man w/ PTSD. Much to learn from this story.] I said something to the effect that you dont want him backed into a corner where he does not feel he has any options. "If you push him into that situation, he will defend himself. I was fairly certain of that, Passey testified. "They discussed potential strategies to defuse the situation unfolding on the property where Matters lived with his mother near...
"A growing body of research shows that the need to connect socially with others is as basic as our need for food, water and shelter, writes UCLA professor Matthew Lieberman in his first book, "Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect," published...
"Three out of every four Australians will be exposed to a traumatic event in their lifetime, in the form of serious accidents or injuries, war, natural disasters or sexual and physical assault. For some, this will develop into ...