"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is launching a new smartphone app – the first of its kind in U.S. federal law enforcement – designed to seek the public's help with fugitive and...
"It’s hard to get enough of something that almost works." –Vincent Felitti, MD "Adverse childhood experience (ACE) grows out of a family system. No member escapes unscathed. Thus it’s not surprising that my older sister, Janice,...
Abstract Childhood trauma is a common occurrence and has been associated with psychosis and suggested as a risk factor leading to psychosis and schizophrenia in adulthood. This article introduces the scope of the problem and discusses the evidence for...
"From sorting out relationship woes to combating post-traumatic stress disorder, experts are finding new ways lucid dreaming can heal the mind.... "A paper published earlier this year in the journal Medical Hypotheses suggests that lucid...
"The Meadows trauma and addiction treatment center in Wickenburg, Ariz., announced the addition of a new young adult program, DAWN at The Meadows. DAWN will open at The Meadows’ campus early fall 2013 exclusively for young men and women...
There are no words I can use to describe this video, it says it all !!! http://www.tvw.org/index.php?o...p;eventID=2013090044
The AFWI routinely scans academic journals for research articles related to its mission and vision. This literature search is designed to return scholarly academic articles in the topic areas of child and brain development, mental health, and...
Verbal abuse of nurses by their colleagues in health care settings is an ongoing and well-documented problem. Now two studies published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) RN Work Project demonstrate that high levels of such abuse have a...
[Must-read! New health care model. ACEs & TIC mentioned] "If you were to show up in Alan Glaseroffs office as a person with diabetes and, lets say, numerous complications, putting you into that group of 5% of Americans whose care consumes 50% of the national health care spend, he would ask you: What bothers you the most? in order to start developing a patient-centered plan of care.... "Here is the full transcript of our conversation: "Interview with Alan Glaseroff, MD,...
On Monday, at Mi Pueblo Taqueria in Petaluma, CA, four ACEsConnection members from Sonoma County met and talked over plates of delicious, and plentiful, food. Karen Clemmer, perinatal services coordinator at Sonoma County Department of...
"...When traumatized people seek help at public mental health programs they often encounter a pronounced interest in identifying what’s wrong with them. This is primarily due to the continued reliance on the psychiatric Bible (DSM 4/5) to...
"Parents Interacting with Infants, or PIWI, teaches the young women how to nurture their infants and toddlers, how to observe and learn things from the way the babies act, basically how to be a good mother. “The emphasis is on nurturing and...
"How serious is the issue of military rape ? The latest figures show that a full 20% of female veterans who were stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan were the victims of sexual trauma while serving. Worse yet, since the percentage...
Abstract Background: Several large population-based studies have demonstrated associations between adverse childhood experiences and later development of psychotic symptoms. However, little attention has been paid to the mechanisms...