"Women on Medicaid who give birth with the support of a trained doula are 40 percent less likely to have a Caesarean section than Medicaid recipients who have their babies without that support, according to a University of Minnesota study published...
A project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing, Washington State University College of Nursing, December 2012. Abstract Recent studies have discovered strong relationships between adverse childhood...
"Tallahassee, FL-For the last four years, Lauren Book has been leading the fight against child abuse with her 'Walk in my Shoes' march. Now Book, who claims she was sexually abused for 5 years at the hands of her nanny, is pushing her support of House...
Abstract Substantial evidence has documented that adverse childhood experiences exert deleterious effects on mental health. It is less clear to what extent specific maltreatment during specific developmental periods may vary between disorders rather...
"Secondary school students who follow an in-class mindfulness program report reduced indications of depression, anxiety and stress up to six months later. Moreover, these students were less likely to develop pronounced depression-like symptoms. The...
"Police have shut down one of the largest child sex exploitation rings seen in Australia that was dealing in "abhorrent and disgusting" images, officials have said. Twenty-one people aged between 22 and 76 from around the country were arrested and...
"Behind the red brick, inside the windows, and past the big steel doors, is a secret home in St. Louis. "It's a place where a world of hurt comes walking through the door, every time an officer brings a rescued young woman or girl. "This home is...
"Texas lawmakers over the past decade have approved some of the toughest measures in the nation to capture and punish human traffickers, the vendors in a modern-day slave trade of people forced into prostitution or labor. This legislative session,...
"Kimberly Ritter discovered that some US hotels harbor a horrifying secret – child sex trafficking. Now she and her employer are urging the hospitality industry to confront the problem...."...
"Teens who were depressed as children are far more likely than their peers to be obese, smoke cigarettes and lead sedentary lives, even if they no longer suffer from depression...."...
"Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates, according to new research from the...
"Professor of Psychology Matthew Nock is the author of a new paper, co-authored with other Harvard faculty, which examines suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents. In a recent conversation with the Gazette, Nock discussed his research, and...
"In general, teens who perpetrate violence are capable of change,” says Emily Rothman, a professor at Boston University School of Public Health and an expert on intimate-partner violence perpetration...." " We need to recognize that teen dating...
"Colm O’Gorman, the founder of the One in Four organisation that supports clerical sex abuse victims in Ireland, said the emergence of Pope Francis on the balcony in St Peter’s Square had evoked “a spark of hope” in him...."...
"The suicide deaths last year of two teenage boys from Johnston public schools has prompted the Iowa Senate to approve a bill requiring statewide training on suicide prevention for Iowa school personnel. "Senate File 337, which passed Wednesday on a...