Girls with childhoods like mine don’t live long and they don’t grow up to become doctors. They die young and if they happen to stay alive, they end up in prison or living on the streets forever. I grew up in a family infected with incest...
Research documents the high rate of exposure to trauma among infants and toddlers, particularly children living in high-poverty communities. Beginning life in the context of trauma places infants and toddlers on a compromised...
The early days of the Obama administration were a chaos of uncertainty, between the historic housing bust, historic market crash, and historic armada of stimulus. But one thing was clear about the U.S. economy in 2008 going forward: Healthcare...
Pope Francis is widely believed to be a cool Pope—a huggable, Upworthyish, meme-ready, self-deprecating leader for a new generation of worshippers. “He has described himself as a sinner,” writes Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Pope...
This Viewpoint discusses the way that integration of behavioral health and care into early childhood primary care might improve general health outcomes for children. Research advances since the turn of the century have identified new pediatric...
Every time I’m in conversation with someone and I mention working with adolescent girls through YWCA, their response is, “What a tough age for girls!” While this seems to be the consensus, I’m not sure the public...
Robyn Wing, M.D., an emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital, recently led a study that found children who were exposed to an adverse childhood experience (ACE) were 28 percent more likely to develop asthma. The rate of...
Why Dating Never Heals Emotio nal Pai n People with attachment troubles or other child trauma often ask: why is dating so difficult? It is, for a reason. So instead of the dating hunt, I invested my life, fortune, and sacred honor...
Two more scholarships are being added to the annual Albert Lea School Board scholarship this year due to an abundance of funds in the program’s reserves. According to Superintendent Mike Funk, the scholarship’s reserves have about...
Glenn Close still remembers the day that her younger sister approached her with a terrifying secret: “I can’t stop thinking about killing myself,” Jessie Close confided to Glenn roughly 10 years ago. After doctors diagnosed...
A key factor in effective policymaking in juvenile justice is not grounded in what we see, but in what we don’t see. After introducing the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) model to my county, a judicial colleague came to...
On April 20, 2015, the body of a 27-year-old mother of two was laid to rest in a village in India. She had been admitted to the hospital ten days earlier, with bleeding in the head and a spinal injury that left her paralyzed. She told...
New research discovers post-traumatic stress disorder can occur after a stay in an intensive care unit. PTSD is often associated with warfare, major catastrophes and assault, not hospitalization. However, in a new study Johns Hopkins...
To ease the heartache of her first child’s stillbirth, Kelli Montgomery chose rigorous exercise, yoga and meditation over the antidepressants and sleeping pills that her physicians immediately suggested. “‘You need to be on...
" Depression is a recurrent disorder. Without ongoing treatment, as many as 4 out of 5 people with depression relapse at some point," says lead author Willem Kuyken, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oxford in the UK....