For the past 50 years, psychotherapy has taken a back seat to biomedical psychiatry, largely due to reliance on medications for the treatment of mental disorders. Yet clinical evidence increasingly points to chronic, unresolved traumatic stress as the...
When the "D.C. Sniper" John Allen Muhammad and his then-teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo went on a three-week shooting spree back in 2002, their bloody rampage did more than leave a trail of victims and spread panic throughout the capital...
I have just taken a three year long journey to process all my childhood trauma and pain. It started out as a way to lose weight, which I think is a problem for a lot of us who suffered trauma.I had my biggest success by being open to hearing what my...
FLORENCE, S.C. (PRESS RELEASE) - Increasing public awareness of the need to ensure the safety and welfare of children led to the passage of the first Federal child protection legislation in 1974. Although the original act has been...
This is one in a mini-series of posts exploring the state of mental health care in America, and how to fix it. You may not know it, but there’s a huge fight going on that affects the future of everyone with autism and/or...
The latest salvo in the mommy wars is that all that time you spend parenting just doesn’t matter. But it’s a claim that, despite the enthusiastic and widespread coverage by news media outlets that include The Washington Post, Vox,...
Over the past several days, Michel Martin has been leading a conversation across various NPR shows about how black men navigate a world that so often sees them as dangerous. When it was announced that that convo was going to move...
Those suffering from depressive symptoms have an increased risk for physical diseases, especially for arthrosis and arthritis. These findings were reported by researchers from the University of Basel and the Ruhr-University Bochum. Their...
Steven Keating’s doctors and medical experts view him as a citizen of the future. A scan of his brain eight years ago revealed a slight abnormality — nothing to worry about, he was told, but worth monitoring. And monitor he did,...
A House panel Tuesday approved a proposal aimed at tightening the sweeping reforms that lawmakers placed into Florida's child-welfare system last year. The House Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee unanimously approved a bill (PCB FCSS...
Texas, the second-most-populous state in the country, writes up more than twice the truancy cases in all other states combined. And unlike almost every other state, Texas handles the vast majority of its truancy cases as class C misdemeanors in...
Ever stared up at the sky on a clear night and felt suddenly small beneath the stars? Hiked up a mountain and marveled at the immensity of the vast beauty below? That inexplicable sense of wonder, it turns out, is actually good for you. A...
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. To recognize this important month, we are introducing ‘Connections,’ a special National Child Abuse Prevention Month series of short videos that will be released on each of the five...
Rates of all types of violence have dropped in the U.S., but are high compared with other developed countries—and the numbers of children and youth affected are high. In this brief, and the report it’s based on, we review risk and...
Paladin is a trauma informed care organization. It has taken us about three years to fully understand and implement a trauma informed care environment. And even after fully implementing this, we still have to work every single day...