Last December, ACEsConnection member Shelley Calissendorff wrote a great blog entry on the link between animal abuse and human violence, 'Flying Under the Radar' which I hope you get a chance to read. This subject came up again, for me, and I wanted...
"The Nurse-Family Partnership , for example, identifies first-time mothers, usually young and unmarried, by their 28th week of pregnancy and attaches a nurse to them through the child’s second birthday. "Rhodes says during the 90-minute visits,...
Kansas - "As a community, it is important that we unite to prevent child abuse. Research consistently shows that child abuse is a serious problem with physical and emotional health implications. The social and financial costs of child abuse are...
"The greatest gift you can give children is to love and respect their mother," Rivera told Playbook.... "The biggest theme is about changing the culture. The one thing we try to develop is a family atmosphere -- that can carry over to your everyday...
" Waikato [District Health Board] health workers have stepped up their identification of patients who are also victims of family violence, with a particular focus on pregnant women..... "'The cultural shift has been remarkable,'' she said.... "Mrs Cowley said while hospital staff may have always noticed the signs, they were now being taught the tools to tackle it head on. "There are five keys area they focus on - the emergency department and child, sexual, womens' and mental...
"Individuals who have experienced a severe traumatic event often develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The precipitating event has to have caused the patient to believe that death, serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of the...
-Video is believed to have been made in 2012 -It is not known if it is authentic or part of a public education campaign -More than 50 per cent of Serbian women have suffered some form of domestic violence -Domestic...
"President Obama's proposal for universal preschool for 4-year-olds has stirred up the debate about its benefits and cost.... "High-quality preschool has also been found to reduce participants' future reliance on welfare and likeliness of being...
"Compared to a study of a 2008‐2009 sample of preschool classrooms in the state, the institute's study found that the 2011-2012 sample scored lower on average on the measure of global quality and slightly lower on the measure of teacher‐child...
Abstract Prior studies have demonstrated an association between retrospective reports of experiencing trauma in childhood and the current incidence of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. Much less is known about this association among low-income...
Abstract Background Previous studies in bipolar disorder investigating childhood trauma and clinical presentations of the illness have mainly focused on physical and sexual abuse. Our aim was to explore further the relationship...
Abstract BACKGROUND: Among women in the general population, childhood physical abuse (CPA) is associated with poor adult health status and engagement in health risk behaviors. Sexual minority women (SMW) are at elevated risk of CPA, have higher rates...
Most people have compassion for an abused or neglected child. However, many people have contempt for these same children when they are grown and suffer the consequences of that abuse or neglect. Depression, anxiety, personality disorders,...
"This American Life captures and portrays the challenges inner city high school students face daily in the series on Harper High School. Students deal with violence and trauma directly and indirectly on a daily basis, bringing it with them to...
"Depression is typically diagnosed in adults, but children also struggle with the condition. New research now indicates those depressed children are more likely to be obese, smoke and not engage in physical activity — all risk factors for heart...