Jonathan Bartels is a nurse working in emergency care. He says witnessing death over and over again takes a toll on trauma workers — they can become numb or burned out. But about two years ago, after Bartels and his team at...
A new study finds that a family intervention can help anxious parents raise calm kids. Children of anxious parents are at an increased risk of developing anxiety, but that doesn’t have to be the case, according to new research by...
Don’t despair. According to Ta-Nehisi Coates, that’s what President Obama told him at the end of a White House meeting in 2013. Coates had criticized the president on his blog for favoring the rhetoric of black self-help over an...
It’s Field Day at Pleasant View Elementary School and at the moment, there’s a crisis with the bouncy house. “No, no, it’s not supposed to go there,” says Principal Gara Field into her mobile phone as she rushes out...
The benefits of mindfulness are both well-established and wide-ranging . Studies on subjects ranging from college students to Marines have found the practice reduces stress and leads to higher levels of well-being. But...
In 1997, when a casino resort opened on the Cherokee reservation in western North Carolina, family life got a little easier. The tribal government, which owned the casino, distributed a portion of its profits to every adult in the...
Ivy Avenue Wellness Center, sponsored by Columbia Pacific Coordinated Care Organization, is scheduled to open Oct. 1 to help Tillamook County residents suffering from chronic pain. More than 500,000 Oregonians are estimated to suffer from persistent...
Juvenile justice reformers risk leaving girls behind if they fail to consider how traumatic experiences push girls into the system, says a new report . Officials and advocates are more aware than ever of the way trauma affects...
A diverse group of school staff, mental health professionals, justice advocates, and city employees recently crowded the Moot Court Room at the University of the District of Columbia David E. Clark Law School to begin dismantling the school to prison...
Building a Trauma-Informed Nation -- conference, amplifier sites and webcast -- starts this Tuesday morning. About 250 people are converging in the Cesar Chavez Auditorium at the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, DC. Hundreds -- perhaps...
The residents of the Harriet Tubman Women’s Shelter rose at 3 a.m. on Thursday to give everyone time to shower, fix their hair and get dressed in the best clothes they had after years on and off the streets, coping with evictions, abuse...
In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan , he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base. “At night...
At the San Francisco offices of the global design firm IDEO, overlooking the blue expanse of San Francisco Bay, 150 people spend each workday bettering how we live by re-thinking everyday tangibles like IKEA kitchens, Tempur-Pedic mattresses,...
Girls serve longer sentences than boys in the Texas juvenile justice system, and for less serious offenses, according to a new study from the University of Texas at Austin. Researchers studied 5,019 juveniles in three large, urban...
The unconscious man in his 90s was brought to an emergency room where Dr. Douglas White was a critical care physician. The staff couldn’t find any relatives to make medical decisions on his behalf. “He had outlived all his...