Abstract Prisoners are at increased risk of suicide. Investigation of both individual and environmental risk factors may assist in developing suicide prevention policies for prisoners and other high-risk populations. We conducted a matched...
"Freund – who has bachelor’s degrees in psychology and criminal justice administration and is working toward a master’s degree in psychology – said the relationship her daughter had with the horse was what saved her child from...
"Not surprisingly, the inherent neurological and behavioral differences between men and women can be amplified in a psychotherapeutic or treatment setting. Because of this, men and women with highly similar underlying issues and diagnoses often...
"Delivering a two-year intervention programme to disruptive kindergarten children could help prevent substance use in adolescence, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry . "Alcohol and drug use are highly prevalent...
"Child victims of sexual abuse are to receive greater protection in criminal trials in England and Wales. Specialist judges will be hand-picked to try cases where it is necessary to cross examine the victim for long period of time - and when more...
"A large, epidemiologic study showed that the strongest vulnerability factors for PTSD included female sex, events involving interpersonal violence, and pre-existing anxiety and mood disorders before exposure to the worst traumatic stressor....
"Browning, who got the board's go-ahead today to hire an additional 147 employees, said training for social workers is being increased from eight weeks of classroom instruction to a full year, with a focus on real-life situations and field work...
"When the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a nationwide sweep in late July to fight child prostitution, the agency boasted that " Operation Cross Country " had successfully rescued 105 sexually exploited children. "But the National Center for...
Abstract Objective To test the potential mediation effect of psychosomatic symptoms on the relationship between parents' history of childhood physical victimization and current risk for child physical maltreatment.... Discussion The mediation analysis...
Abstract Background Experimental stress has been shown to have analgesic as well as allodynic effect in animals. Despite the obvious negative influence of stress in clinical pain conditions, stress-induced alteration of pain sensitivity has not been...
"An extremely difficult subject to talk about is the degree of sexual trauma in the military (MST). The most recent data from the U. S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs suggests that about 1 in 10 men suffer MST. For enlisted women, the ratio is...
For years I ran a therapeutic childcare. Back in the early 90s when so much of the brain research came into childcare training I changed how we were working with and accommodating many of our children who were diagnosed with various mental health...
Being tenacious is surely a necessary strength when we are trying to change attitudes and behaviors. Having the persistence and patience to stand in the gap for children is a thankless job. Yet, we must if we hope to have children grow...
After reading “The Trauma of Being Alive,” by psychiatrist and author Mark Epstein in the August 4 New York Times, I am eager to hear more from him and will when his new book “The Trauma of Everyday Life” comes out August 15....