"Veterans participating in extended outdoor group recreation show signs of improved mental health, suggesting a link between the activities and long-term psychological well-being, according to results of a new University of Michigan study. "Veterans...
Abstract Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with a profound lack of empathy. Neuroscientists have associated empathy and its interindividual variation with how strongly participants activate brain regions involved in their own...
"CHILD health experts in Australia have called for the smacking of kids and other physical punishments to be completely outlawed. "The medicos from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) want ...
"The end of the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer agreements next year raises red flags for those concerned about poverty as these are essential financial tools that help provinces and territories provide health care services, and...
"Japan's child consultation centers dealt with 66,807 child abuse cases in fiscal 2012 through March of this year, exceeding 60,000 for the first time since the tally started in fiscal 1990, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Thursday. "With...
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Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood More great news: The City of Raleigh has awarded $35,000 to our SecurePath program, one of the only child mental health programs that offers FREE services, in both English and Spanish, in the child's home or...
"On January 16, 2013, President Barack Obama directed Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Arne Duncan of the U.S. Department of Education to launch a national conversation on mental health to...
"Positive results from three new studies on human-animal interaction (HAI) are being presented today at the triennial conference of the International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations (IAHAIO) in Chicago, IL.... "We are seeing a...
"Stories of inmates with no plan for the future have turned into freedom and hope due to the Women's Re-entry Achievement Program (WRAP) in Solano County.... "WRAP is designed to help women while they are in jail and after they are released to deal...
"A University of Illinois study has established a possible link between high-fat diets and such childhood brain-based conditions as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and memory-dependent learning disabilities. "Gregory Freund, a...
“Over the last decade, there has been an increasing awareness about the poor developmental outcomes for children and youth in the child welfare system. The recognition of the need to improve well-being as a central focus of child welfare’s...
Trauma Violence & Abuse , July 2013, 14(3) Table of Contents Biology,Genes, and Resilience: Toward a Multidisciplinary Approach CopingWith Violence: A Comprehensive Framework and Implications forUnderstanding Resilience AReview of Developmental Research on Resilience in Maltreated Children Individualand Collective Dimensions of Resilience Within Political Violence Resilience,Trauma, Context, and Culture http://tva.sagepub.com/content/14/3.toc Short on...
"Little is known about how sibling relationships impact child and family functioning, but Penn State researchers are beginning to shed light on intervention strategies that can cultivate healthy and supportive sibling relationships. "Parents...
"Today, nearly 800 CAICs [Child Abuse Intervention Centers] throughout the country are a successful and critical part of communities nationwide. In 2012, CAICs helped more than 286,000 victims of child abuse. In addition, as a result of the coordinated response of CAICs, communities with centers saved on average $1,000 per child-abuse case compared to communities without CAICs. "Recognizing the value of these programs in preventing and intervening in child abuse, in 1990 the Victims of...