"The Law Commissioner for England and Wales will join a number of experts at Northumbria University, Newcastle next week to debate the ways in which the criminal justice system recognises mental disorders in defendants.... "The conference, jointly...
"Launched in 2013, the Trauma-Informed Legal Advocacy (TILA) Project will offer a framework and practical skills for doing trauma-informed legal advocacy with survivors of domestic violence involved in legal or other systems...." "To assist legal...
"Last month, due to a lack of funding, the juvenile lock-up where I taught a weekly “life skills” workshop was shuttered. According to my very rough calculation, in the year that I worked there I had about 400 young men of all races...
"In our practice, we see a late-life variant of PTSD. Although we have a few surviving World War II vets, most have fought in Korea, Vietnam and other conflicts.... "In dementia, the day-to-day is lost, but memories of times past float unbidden to the...
"The researchers believe that these findings have significant implications for the field of psychiatry. "Psychophysiologic reactivity to script-driven imagery is a potential experimental paradigm that could be used to index an individual's fear...
"A survey on adverse childhood experiences (ACE) was conducted on a representative sample of 2088 young adults (1343 females, and 745 males) from 17 public universities in Romania. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of ACE in Romania,...
"This survey of adverse childhood experiences was undertaken in 1277 students aged over 18 years from a representative sample of high schools and universities in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia."...
Some of the offerings: Family environment and adult resilience: contributions of positive parenting and the oxytocin receptor gene. Childhood maltreatment and psychopathology affect brain development during adolescence. The neurobiological effects of...
"Listening is a complex and multi-level process. Mindfulness and attachment-personality brain hemisphere theory provide two valuable pieces of the puzzle: how to listen and what to listen for. Most of the materials in the bibliography below are...
"When people think of juvenile justice, drumming probably doesn’t come to mind. However, an innovative program called DRUMBEAT is utilizing hand drumming to facilitate social interaction and develop relationship skills, providing youths with...
Abstract The deleterious impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may be confounded with frequently co-occurring social disadvantage. In this analysis we test the effects of ACEs on adult mental health within a social disadvantage framework,...
"Parents who physically abuse their children appear to have a physiological response that subsequently triggers more harsh parenting when they attempt parenting in warm, positive ways, according to new research. "Reporting in the quarterly journal...
"The analysis of data from more than 4,500 parents and their teen children in the United Kingdom also found that the risk of depression was higher among the children of mothers with low levels of education who had depression after giving...
[MUST-READ: How the law enforcement system retraumatizes and sometimes kills people who have ACEs/PTSD.] "The psychiatrist and former soldier who was treating Greg Matters for post-traumatic stress disorder asked RCMP if he could speak to the former peacekeeper as he was surrounded by heavily armed police officers at his rural British Columbia farm, a coroner's inquest into his death heard Wednesday. Dr. Greg Passey said he received a call the evening of Sept. 10, 2012, from an officer...