"The act of describing a feeling such as anger may have a significant impact on the body's physiological response to the situation that elicits the emotion, according to research published June 5 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Karim Kassam...
"State lawmakers are getting ready to move forward with proposals to expand the legal definition of child abuse in Pennsylvania in an effort to flag more incidents of suspected mistreatment.... "Too often, McCormack said, the state's definition of...
Abstract Child abuse is a social problem that receives much attention from policy makers, practitioners, and researchers. This alarming phenomenon generates many consequences for children, their families, and society as a whole; one tragic...
Abstract Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been linked to childhood abuse, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and low emotional intelligence (EI). Relationships among adverse childhood experiences (ACE), PTSD symptoms, and partner aggression...
"An initiative of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in partnership with The National Center on Family Homelessness, OrganWise Guys, Inc., and Dr. Danielle Hollar.... "Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation , Healing Hearts, Promoting Health (HHPH) is an...
"Leaders of local groups that deal with child sexual abuse are disappointed with budget cuts that have slashed $250,000 from their budgets, but they’re not just sitting around hoping the federal government will restore the...
First, my heart goes out to every student who was denied his or her high school diploma. These students are victims that our state superintendent and legislators have abandoned, rejected, and chose not to protect them from injustice. 4,200 students...
Here's a must-read about a police department in the small Canadian town of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, pop. 35,000, that was dealing with 35,000 calls a year, which was double the number in 2001. The calls were on track to double again in eight...
"To get a sense of just how foolish and shortsighted the $85 billion across-the-board sequester cuts are you don’t have to look any further than Head Start. The federal government’s only pre-K program , Head Start provides comprehensive,...
"Stress can be good or bad or ugly, added neuroendocrinologist Bruce McEwen, Ph.D., the Alfred E. Mirsky Professor at Rockefeller University in New York.... “T he neurobiology of stress undergoes dramatic changes over the childhood years,”...
Abstract Recent data suggests that a history of childhood maltreatment is associated with reductions in hippocampal volume in healthy adults. Because this association is also evident in adults with psychiatric illness, it has been suggested that...
"You’ve probably heard that a record number of American women — 40 percent — are now the primary or sole breadwinners in their families. But two-thirds of those women are single mothers making a median yearly income of $23,000....
"Peer group influences affect children much earlier than researchers have suspected, finds a new University of Maryland-led study. The researchers say it provides a wake-up call to parents and educators to look out for undue group influences,...