Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, are planning an ordinance that is so vigorously unconstitutional, so wolf-faced crazy from concept to execution, that it may win an award for Most Bonkers Public Policy proposed for a city this...
Humans are terrible at diagnosing the causes of their emotions. Take a famous experiment, in which researchers sent dozens of men, one at a time, across two bridges over a surging river. One bridge was high, narrow, and wobbly; the other...
On the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming, there's not a single trained sexual assault nurse examiner. Northern Arapaho tribal member Millie Friday saw how devastating that lack could be when her own daughter was raped by a close...
A film describing the “toxin” of childhood trauma and stress will be shown at an area theater next week. The Community Learning Center at Pinckney will host a screening of the film “Paper Tigers” at the Sunrise Theater...
Researchers are looking across the entire human genome to see if early life stress causes persistent changes in gene expression that increase the lifelong risk of cardiovascular disease. "We know this stress is bad, and we can link this stress...
In the West, our introduction to power and dominance comes early. Starting with our first moves towards independence, we learn our desire for freedom can be squelched by someone bigger, more powerful, even Goddess-like. Mom . She is the order of...
I originally gave these remarks at the ASAP Conference in early June. Several details have been edited to maintain some privacy of children I have fostered and adopted. Thank you so much for having me today. In 2006 my husband...
Alameda County Crisis Support Services is making strides in suicide prevention developing innovative programs—a teen text line and an older men’s support group—tailored to the two populations most at risk: youth and elderly...
Do you look like your doctor? For many of us, the answer is no, as Damon Tweedy explains in Black Man in a White Coat. Tweedy, a practicing psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke...
Do you ever get angry at yourself for feeling anxious? Beating yourself up for feeling anxious only multiplies the misery. This is #3 on the list of 5 ways of coping with anxiety that can actually make it worse. Check...
Please join us on our upcoming webinar, "Returning to Being Good Relatives: Addressing Lateral Oppression and Violence", which is brought to you by Defending Childhood in partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are related to short- and long-term negative physical and mental health consequences among children and adults. Studies of the last three decades on ACEs and traumatic stress have emphasized their impact and...
I AM being stalked by meditation evangelists. They approach with the fervor of a football fan attacking a keg at a tailgate party. “Which method of meditation do you use?” I admit that I don’t meditate, and they are...
On a recent Tuesday morning at Lafayette Elementary School in Northwest Washington, Sofia Parodi took a coveted seat at the head of the classroom and asked a fellow fourth-grader to switch off the lights. “Close your eyes and take three deep...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, DHHS, has awarded the Washington Department of Corrections a five-year, $7.5 million federal grant aimed at helping inmates with children transition back into society and be successful parents....