"July 1 is always a big day for Indiana lawmakers as the bills they passed in the previous session go into effect. Several of the laws written passed will affect Indiana’s minors. Among them are...."...
Abstract Importance Child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences, especially when recent and ongoing, affect adolescent health. Efforts to intervene and prevent adverse childhood exposures should begin early in...
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They're short; they're long. Some are poems. They're all sad. Teens living through serious adversity because of interactions with their own troubled parents, and young adults struggling with memories as they live out the consequences of a troubled...
"This annotated bibliography describes current research, from peer-reviewed academic journals, on the efficacy of healthy marriage and relationship education programs and services to inform safety-net stakeholders’ efforts to integrate healthy...
A 12-page brief introducing the basics of trauma-informed care in a agency setting. Mentions working with different client groups. SAMHSA. (2011)....
"As narratives of "hook-up" culture take center stage in popular media, behavioral researchers are starting to ask what psychological consequences, if any, may be in store for young adults who engage in casual sex. "A new study in The Journal of Sex...
"Divorce has a bigger impact on child-parent relationships if it occurs in the first few years of the child's life, according to new research. Those who experience parental divorce early in their childhood tend to have more insecure relationships with...
"Why do these kinds of experiences create such a painful and long-lasting effect? The answer lies in very old structures in the human brain, called the amygdala and the hippocampus. These are nestled within the temporal lobe, which manages sensory...
"Even short-term exposure to political violence may have long-lasting effects on children's adjustment and behavior, says a new study by a team of researchers from Kenya, Italy and the United States. "Intense violence followed the contested Kenyan...
"Brain scans of preschoolers with depression revealed elevated activity in the amygdala (the small area in the red circle) when compared with scans of young children exhibiting no signs of depression.... "Gaffrey said it's possible depression affects...
"An eight-week intervention involving 141 preschoolers in a Head Start program and their parents produced significant improvements in the children's behavior and brain functions supporting attention and reduced levels of parental stress that, in turn,...
"Ohio's agencies for mental health services and for alcohol and drug addiction are merging into one entity. The combined department will include more than 460 alcohol, drug and gambling addiction prevention and treatment providers, 400 community...
Abstract Improving our ability to accurately predict individual risk for depression would have profound public health benefits. While there has been growing interest in understanding the relation between measures of positive emotion, such as...