Blog

Survivors of complex trauma often see the world as a horrendous place where there is only pain and sorrow. It is very difficult for people like us to step back and see the trees for the forest. During this season of the year, the thinking patterns of survivors can turn dark as we consider what happened to us and the way our family of origin behaved during the holidays. To feel better, survivors must change their thinking habits and this article will center on that premise. What are Cognitive...

Join Dr. Gentry as he welcomes General Kathleen Flarity, PhD, DNP and Jeffrey “Jim” Dietz, MD for a one-hour conversation about professional resilience in the 21 st Century. The presentation is entirely free of charge. Dr. Kathleen Flarity, DNP, PhD, CEN, CFRN, FAEN, FAAN is the Deputy Director of the CU Anschutz Center for COMBAT (COmbat Medicine and BATtlefield) Research. Additionally, Brig Gen Flarity is the Mobilization Assistant to the Command Surgeon, Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB,...

Abundant data on wholistic health disparities mandates intentional, sustainable quality improvement action. Will the next generation of metrics account for this reality?

Yesterday I logged onto Goodreads, the website that tracks the books you and your friends are reading, and I noticed that an old college classmate had marked a book "to-read": What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo. "Ooh a new trauma book?" I thought, my interest piqued. Turns out this book was very new—the newest. It was released on the auspicious 2/2/22, mere days ago. I wondered if her story and insights would be boring since I've been spending at...

By Matt Barnum, Photo: Eli Imadali/Chalkbeat, Chalkbeat, February 25, 2022 Schools should only mandate masks when COVID cases and hospitalizations are high, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Friday, in a shift that means most U.S. schools now have the agency’s OK to go without masks. The move is the first major change in national guidance on masks in schools since last summer, and follows decisions by many states and districts to lift mask mandates in recent weeks.

By Laura Hazard Owen, Photo: Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press, NiemanLab, February 24, 2022 Following the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is difficult, especially if you’re not already extremely knowledgeable about the situation. Turning to Twitter may be the automatic reaction, but it’s not necessarily that helpful: The non-chronological-by-default timeline means news is presented out of order ( here’s how you can fix that, if you’d like). Opinions outweigh people reporting from the...

By Jake Tapper, Ariane de Vogue, Jeff Zeleny, Betsy Klein, and Maegan Vazquez, Image: Screenshot from embedded video, CNN Politics, February 25, 2022 President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday, setting in motion a historic confirmation process for the first Black woman to sit on the highest court in the nation. "Today, as we watch freedom and liberty under attack abroad, I'm here to fulfill my responsibilities under the Constitution, to preserve...

By Adrianna Evans and Beth Giambrone, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), February 24, 2022 Public and private institutions, school districts, and business leaders are advancing racial equity and supporting policies to address racism. Public health organizations including CDC , ASTHO ,  NACCHO , and  APHA  have taken steps to eliminate the effects of racism. Likewise, many cities and counties have declared racism an urgent public health crisis comparable to other...

By Azeen Ghorayshi, Photo: Callaghan O'Hare/The New York Times, The New York Times, February 23, 2022 Gov. Greg Abbott told state health agencies in Texas on Tuesday that medical treatments provided to transgender adolescents, widely considered to be the standard of care in medicine, should be classified as “child abuse” under existing state law. His statements, made in a letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, followed an opinion on Friday by Attorney General Ken...

By Elana Spivack, Inverse, February 21, 2022 IN 2018 , Bruce Hood wondered if there was a way to teach well-being. "A lot of universities [are] waking up to the fact that students are experiencing terrible problems with mental well-being," Hood tells Inverse . The University of Bristol, where Hood is a psychology professor, had experienced 11 student suicides between October 2016 and April 2018 . "I was very concerned." That same year, Hood's former Ph.D. student, Laurie Santos , pioneered a...

By Pritpal S Tamber, Photo: Unsplash, Pritpal S Tamber, February 24, 2022 In my last post , I illustrated the different types of outcomes that have been reported in research that examined the link between community power and health. It was based on the 12 articles that were classified as high-quality of the 93 that we found in our review . That leaves me 81 to summarize. To be honest, I cannot think of anything more boring than me listing all of the outcomes from the 45 articles classified...

By Pitchfork Economics, February 22, 2022 We often discuss abortion as an issue of bodily autonomy, personal rights, and reproductive justice. Of course it’s all of those things, but it’s also an economic issue. Access (or lack thereof) to an abortion profoundly affects women’s lives by determining if, when, and under what circumstances they become mothers. Whether or not women have access to abortion can change the direction of their lives, affecting educational attainment, labor force...