"Rhode Island has kicked off its efforts to transform social services across the state to being “trauma-informed.” A Riverside resident who heads Family Service of RI will be right in the middle of the transformation. “This will...
"A significant percentage of veterans returning from wars exhibit symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS). This is now recognized as a serious health problem, but what about the victims of such violence? Refugees live with the constant reminder of what...
"Department of Veterans Affairs doctors are continuing to prescribe tranquilizers such as Valium and Xanax to veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder -- despite VA guidelines advising against their use for the condition. :Almost a third...
"Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute have discovered that stress circuits in the brain undergo profound learning early in life. Using a number of cutting edge approaches, including optogenetics, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and...
"New research has shown that the way our minds react to and process emotions such as fear can vary according to what is happening in other parts of our bodies...." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-bodies-interact-minds-response-emotions.html
"Researchers now suspect that post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) may emerge from flaws in sleep's forgetting process. Two studies presented at the 2012 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans indicate that sleep might offer a...
"Grim images of gun incidents spanning from Newtown, Conn., to Los Angeles have filled news reports of late, presenting a challenge for parents whose children are exposed to these events through the media—whether by television, newspaper or the...
Connie Valentine, founder of the Incest Survivors Speakers Bureau , says no, in this article she wrote for the Davis, CA, Enterprise . It's posted here, with her permission: April is dedicated nationally to child abuse prevention and sexual assault...
"Its spread mimics infections such as HIV, says US professor Gary Slutkin, who advises treating it as a public health problem. London group Chaos Theory is taking his approach to the streets..."...
"Mimicking the behaviour of mum and dad has long been considered a vital way in which children learn about the world around them. Now psychologists at The University of Nottingham have shown that copying unnecessary behaviour is more likely to be a...
"Considering my physical and psychological state then, needless to say it was an overwhelming experience that seemed to exacerbate, not address, the trauma I was feeling. What I needed was someone who would understand my needs and help me address...
A Camden, NJ Hospital Places Visual Reminders Against Child Abuse - New Jersey “Children respond to (abuse) by sometimes by becoming aggressive,” says Cooper emergency medicine and child abuse specialist Dr. Kathy McCans (third from left...
"The New York City drop-in center for homeless LGBT youth is taking on religion-based familial rejection.... "With a series of videos and an op-ed in The Huffington Post , New York City's Ali Forney Center is encouraging religious parents not to use...
"...The Unity House in south Seattle opened its doors to the public, offering a rare look inside a sex offender halfway house. "Jim Tharpe, Unity House owner, looks at his home as an educational center for convicted sex offenders released from prison....
"In the United States, nearly one in five women have been raped at some point in their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — most of them before age 25. Across the planet, more than one in three women will be...