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[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Child Abuse Wood JN, Campbell KA, Anderst JD, et al. Child Abuse Pediatrics Research Network: The CAPNET Core Data Project. Acad Pediatr. 2023...

A headline earlier this year said it simply: Social Media is Devastating Girls Mental Health. Donna Jackson Nakazawa, an award-winning science journalist and the author of seven books exploring the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, is featured in this week’s episode of History Culture. Trauma, and explains the crisis facing today’s girls as being a biologically rooted phenomenon, and more, and offers solutions to the crisis that has many parents wondering what they...

Dealing with traumatic childhood events can be challenging as one grows into adulthood. If left untreated, adverse childhood experience (i.e. trauma), can cause significant strains on the well-being of the individual. Mental health concerns, substance abuse, relationship issues, and physical pain and illnesses. It is important for individuals to become aware and process their hurts and pains from previous traumatic events. In this article, I have provided several steps to healing adverse...

Community Resilience Initiative (CRI) is presenting its first in-person conference after gathering online over the past three years due to COVID restrictions. This year’s conference takes place from July 20 to 21, 2023 at the beautiful Hotel Roanoke Conference Center in Roanoke, VA. Entitled Pathways to Resilience , the conferenc e offers a multitude of talks, presentations, activities and workshops focused on processing the collective trauma we all have lived through over the past few years...

By William Finnegan, Illustration: João Fazenda/The New Yorker, The New Yorker, June 4, 2023 You may think that child labor was abolished a century ago, at least in the United States. That was never quite true. The Fair Labor Standards Act, passed during the New Deal, outlawed “oppressive child labor” but exempted agricultural work from many of its restrictions, which, in the decades since, has left hundreds of thousands of children in the fields. In every industry, enforcement of the law...

Olga Thomas and other residents of Hueco Tanks rely on a private company to haul water to their neighborhood. Now she can count on her hydro panels for drinking water. Credit: Omar Ornelas/El Paso Times By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, June 5, 2023 Olga Thomas has a story about every plant in her garden. The creosote that her mother would brew into a medicinal tea. The ocotillo planted from seed that now towers over her. The prickly pear cactus that blooms yellow each spring. Thomas,...

By Stacey Colino, Photo: Wenjia Tang/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, June 2, 2023 If you’ve watched even a few minutes of HGTV or skimmed a handful of real estate listings, you’re likely acquainted with the notion of “bringing the outdoors in.” But the concept is much more than just a home decorating cliché. “As a species, we are part of the natural world and we have an inherent need to connect with nature, whether we realize it or not,” says psychotherapist Patricia Hasbach,...

By Kirstie Ganobsik, Photo: Adobe Stock, HelathDay, June 5, 2023 Many men will put off going to the doctor unless they are really sick, but men's health screenings help catch problems before symptoms appear. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Library of Medicine offer several men's health screening and preventative care recommendations . Many of these recommendations are guided by the U.S. Preventive Services Task...

By Adrianna Rodriguez, Photo: from article, USA TODAY, June 2, 2023 The country’s life expectancy problem gained renewed attention in recent years during the COVID-19 pandemic after seeing the largest drop since World War II. As U.S. life expectancy continues to plummet , a new report found the country has been at a life expectancy disadvantage since the 1950s, and it has only gotten worse since then. The study , published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health , also shows more...

Too little emphasis has historically been placed on this population’s challenges in addressing these determinants, as in accessing quality concordant health and behavioral health care, managing their psychosocial health and reflective resource needs, and activating action to mitigate their abysmal health outcomes. Systemic racism further perpetuates each of these disparities, triggers trauma that activates physical illness, while also compromising individual safety. Time to shift this trend!

Hi. This is the link to the updated PDF for “Help lines and other info 06.03.23”. It has national hotlines and their websites; a place to put local info; and some possibly helpful apps and techniques. For both the PDF, and the correlative “If you need help” sections on the website: info is up-to-date; did edits; added a bit; and worked on accessibility. Link to PDF: Help lines and other info 06.03.23, PDF You can also go directly to the Connect All website. All the information is in the “If...

Students in Fort Wayne, Ind., weren’t going to give up after their school canceled an LGBTQ play. But could they figure out how to put on the show themselves? (Video: Hadley Green/The Washington Post) By Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post, May 31, 2023 Sydney Knipp, 16, tiptoed to stage’s edge and peered around the black curtain at the nearly 1,500 people waiting for the play to start. It was the largest audience she had ever seen. In a few minutes, Sydney was supposed to stride before...