I am speaking to a room of five hundred people recently and ask this question: "How many of you struggle with self-regulation?" I re-phrase it. "How many of you struggle with emotional self-control, impulses, and feeling calm in your bodies?"...
A man who spent nearly 43 years in solitary confinement in a U.S. prison could soon be set free. But questions remain about whether longtime inmate Albert Woodfox (now 68 years old) will ever escape the effects of spending so much time locked...
Authoritarian parenting can lead to depression and somatization in young Mexican American and Dominican American children, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Social Work. The study, led by social...
A new review of social media studies suggests children and adolescents who reported being bullied online are at an increased risk for depression. Currently, the median percentage of children and adolescents who reported being bullied online is...
To hear Clevelanders talk, Public Square is a place you pass through to reach somewhere else. When Moses Cleaveland laid out the town in 1796, he imagined the open area at its center as a New England-style commons: a gathering space for...
Juan Ramirez grew up in poverty in the Rio Grande Valley, in a neighborhood infested with drug-and gang-related violence. By the age of 10 he’d started smoking marijuana and using inhalants. Within a couple of years he’d moved on to...
Over the course of his career, Dr. Seth Berkowitz has met with patients much like one of his first – a 300-pound farmer in rural North Carolina with diabetes and heart trouble. “His own diet was highly processed food, and he knew...
John was 7 when I met him, and dealing with more than any child could be expected to endure. For the first years of his life, he had been witness to his father’s alcoholic binges, which often involved shouting, breaking objects and hitting John...
I DO NOT forgive Dylann Roof, a racist terrorist whose name I hate saying or knowing. I have no immediate connection to what happened in Charleston, S.C., last week beyond my humanity and my blackness, but I do not foresee ever forgiving his...
Terri Anderson signed up for California's Medicaid program earlier this year, hoping she'd finally get treatment for her high blood pressure. But the insurer operating her Medicaid plan assigned the 57-year-old to a doctor across town from her...
Fryman Canyon is one of those special places in the city of Los Angeles — a bit of country and canyon nestled just off the crest of Mulholland Drive, with gorgeous views of the valley and mountains. It's favored by the canine set —...
She arrives wearing baggy sweat pants and over sized shirts, and I know she is living out of the "truth" she has assigned to her sense of self. She is walking in what she believes is her truth. Actually, it isn't true that she is shameful or...
In the aftermath of the shooting massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, many people are asking how and why this tragedy could have happened. It is not a simple question, but it does have concrete answers. And a group of professors...
The effects of mental health disorders followed adolescents into adulthood, resulting in poorer education and employment, according to a series of meta-analyses on the relationship between adolescent health and adult outcomes. Daniel R. Hale,...
Everything about Rilya Wilson’s death was horrific. She entered the Florida foster system a bright-eyed toddler, and disappeared when she was about 4 years old. And it took the state Department of Children and Families—responsible...