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From Ruth Lanius, September 2020 Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, briefly describes her course Trauma, Development, and Neuroplasticity, intended to help clinicians doing trauma therapy, to understand the new neuroscience, and how to intervene at a deep brain level to help survivors recover. Six-part weekly webinar explores critical brain systems affected by trauma, how altered functioning of each is associated with trauma-related symptoms, and how to treat them. [ Please click here for more...

By Yolo County Children's Alliance, September 2020 Parents and caring adults make such a difference in children’s lives in so many ways. Two incredibly important ways that we can connect with our children are through talking to them and playing with them. When you sing a lullaby to your baby, ask your toddler about what she sees out of the car window, talk to your preschooler about her favorite animal, have a conversation with your 5 th grader about what she learned in school, or listen to...

This International Webinar is being organized by the Professional Institute of Business, Bangladesh on September 13, 2020 at 6:30-8:30am PST / 7:00-9:00pm IST. Join these experts on suicide. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqNQ0RV7NuYPO6DAnUAMxNYaQTDTcWogV7Apf3jguGyJs_nQ/viewform

By Emily Berger , Monash University , Karen Martin , University of Western Australia, September 11, 2020. Mental health issues among children are on the rise due to the impacts of the COVID pandemic, including lockdowns. Recent reports show there has been a 28% spike in calls to the phone counselling service Kids Helpline between March and July 2020 compared with the same period last year in Victoria, which is under stage 3 and 4 restrictions. This prompted the state government to fast-track...

https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030043414 On sale through 9/30/2020.

If you are here this weekend to stream the Portraits of Professional Caregivers documentary, please click here to bring you to our Transform Trauma with ACEs Science community. Here are a few screenshots from the film. Special thanks to Rodney Whittenberg and Vic Compher, the co-producers of this documentary for making it available, for free, to our members and to Robin Cogan of The Relentless School Nurse , @Whitney Marris , @Erin Connolly of The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy &...

From Child Mind Institute, September 11, 2020 Please join us for our 10th annual celebration of scientific achievement in child and adolescent psychology, psychiatry and developmental neuroscience, featuring 2020 Sarah Gund Prize recipient W. Thomas Boyce, MD . This event also includes a powerful roundtable on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice on child and adolescent mental health and the development of the next generation of scientists and clinicians. Moderated by...

By Molly Longman, Refinery 29, 2020 Shay Mahon used to spend every September 11 with her family and her father’s old friends in New York. They’d eat takeout and tell stories about her dad, Tom Mahon, who died 19 years ago during the attacks on the World Trade Center. He worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services firm with offices in the North Tower, the first to be hit on the morning of 9/11 in 2001. Shay was just 21 months old at the time, and one of more than 3,000 children who lost...

By Daniel Tan, Public Policy Institute of California, September 11, 2020 As the pandemic continues to threaten the physical health and well-being of many Californians, mental health professionals across the state have also acknowledged its widespread psychological impact. Although the mental health consequences of epidemics are not well documented—in part due to the rarity of these events— existing research shows an association between large-scale disasters and mental and behavioral...

By Kalyn Belsha, Michael Rubinkam, Gabrielle LaMarr, and Larry Fenn, Chalkbeat, September 11, 2020 Missi Magness wanted her children back in school. The parent of a first-grader and a sixth-grader who attend schools on Indianapolis’ southeast side struggled trying to oversee her children’s schooling while working from home this spring. “They need the structure, they need the socialization, they just need to go,” said Magness. “‘I love you, but here’s your backpack, here’s your lunch ... have...

By Stephen Merrill, Edutopia, September 11, 2020 Some of the first adorable patients to trickle into Dr. Nadine Burke Harris’s pediatric clinic when it opened in 2007—long before she was named the first surgeon general of California—were referred by teachers and principals. Sitting in her examination rooms back then, in one of San Francisco’s poorest neighborhoods, Burke Harris knew almost immediately that something was amiss. Her young patients arrived with tentative diagnoses of...

Damla Aktekin is a Healer, Coach, and Writer, who helps other self-healers and healers move beyond their energetic wounds and shine brighter than they thought possible so that they can fully show up in their lives to heal themselves, their families and their soul-tribe.