"Large numbers of Irish children are experiencing adverse events that cast a long shadow on their future physical and mental health, a conference has heard. One in seven Irish nine-year-olds has experienced the divorce or separation of their parents,...
Abstract Background Alcohol use is the third most important global-health risk factor and a main contributor to health inequalities. Previous research on social determinants of alcohol-related disorders has delivered inconsistent results. We...
"In my work with adult survivors of sexual assault, I am beginning to notice a pattern of behavior that I have termed “wounded attachment.” The impact of childhood sexual assault has reverberating effects on almost every facet of...
From TheNextWeb.com: Google sent an email to Blogger users today warning them that their site will be removed at the end of the month if they do not remove all adverts and links to external sites hosting adult content. Blogger’s current...
During a recent stay in Seattle, I lived in homeless shelters for two days, sleeping, eating, and searching for resources to make life comfortable. People who experience homelessness and live on the streets or in shelters experience the results...
This was posted at one of the Homeless Shelters I stayed at.
" Parenthood is the source of our citizens and the foundation of our economy. Parents who raise a productive citizen contribute $1.4 million to our economy. Parents who abuse and/or neglect a child who becomes a criminal or welfare...
"The bond between human and household pet is unconditional love and security. When that bond is broken, by either witnessing or participating in, animal abuse, that act desensitizes the person to violence and causes them to distance them self from...
Abstract We examine the effects of Head Start participation on parenting and child maltreatment in a large and diverse sample of low-income families in large U.S. cities (N = 2807), using rich data from the Fragile Families and Child...
"The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a citizens' blue ribbon commission to propose reforms in the county's troubled child welfare agency. The commission, with two members to be appointed by each of the five supervisors,...
"The assessment of risk in patients who go on to die by suicide or commit homicide is often poor, a new study has found. "A report by The University of Manchester's National Confidential Inquiry (NCI) into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental...
"The brains of children with autism show higher-than-normal connectivity along many neural networks, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found...."...
"Only 30 per cent of NSW's most serious child abuse cases are fully investigated with a visit by a case worker because of staff shortages, says the Public Service Association, which represents social workers. That means as many as 70 per...
"Then-president of the American Psychiatric Association, John Oldham, was chairing a session entitled Combat-Related PTSD: Injury or Disorder?... Who is PTSD For? As Samuel Shem reminds us in his novel, The House of God, “The...