Since the day she ran away from her mother’s home at 14, Danielle Lynette Robinson was in and out of Hillcrest Juvenile Hall in San Mateo, Calif. for the next four years. “It was like my first real home actually — somewhere I...
War-time suicide attempts in the Army are most common in newer enlisted soldiers who have not been deployed, while officers are less likely to try to end their lives. At both levels, attempts are more common among women and those without a high...
Interventions that include resiliency training, education and job support may boost the mental health of patients in the early stages of schizophrenia, new research reveals. The finding, reported in the July issue ofPsychiatric Services,...
When writer Ta-Nehisi Coates sat down at NPR's New York studios a few days ago, he got a little emotional. It was the first time that Coates, who writes for The Atlantic , had held a copy of his latest book, Between the World...
Thank you Brandon Stahl for drawing attention to the sadness I witnessed again and again as a volunteer CASA guardian ad-Litem; children re-abused and children re-entering the child protection system at double the national rates. Some...
Over the past six years, Colorado has conducted one of the largest experiments with long-acting birth control . If teenagers and poor women were offered free intrauterine devices and implants that prevent pregnancy for years, state officials...
Kimberly Bussey became addicted to painkillers with her first dose. She had miscarried a baby, a loss that left her suffering physically and emotionally. When she returned from the hospital, her boyfriend offered her morphine that he bought on...
A three-day conference that started Tuesday in Helena is focusing on the lifelong impacts of traumatic experiences and the importance of understanding those experiences when helping young children and families. The Great Beginnings, Great...
LEIGH ROBINSON WAS out for a lunchtime walk one brisk day during the spring of 2013 when a call came from the principal at her school. Will, a third-grader with a history of acting up in class, was flipping out on the playground. He'd taken off...
What's going through the mind of a 16-year-old kid who mugs a little old lady? Even a quick glimpse of the fear and anguish on her face would instinctively lead most people to pause and re-assess what they were doing. But for the young...
Pixar has a proud tradition of taking things that are incapable of expressing human emotion—robots, toys, rats, cars—and imagining a world where they can, in fact, feel. The studio's most recent effort, the box-office topping and...
More research is needed to improve the identification and treatment of women with perinatal mental health issues, according to a new editorial co-authored by Professor Susan Ayers, the lead of the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research...
The webpage linked below, announces, describes and links to this report on the "sexual abuse to prison pipeline," issued by the Center on Poverty and Inequality. "July 9, 2015 — A new report released today by a coalition of...
It is a remarkable fact that the brain, made of neurons and their connections to one another named synapses, is able to remember. After all, if there is one thing we can say about our bodies and about nature, it's that change is everywhere. To...
Being “fat” is the most common reason children are bullied, and something needs to be done about it. That is the predominant view of thousands of adults from four different countries who, when asked why children are bullied, said...