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...
The National Prevention Network conference will be held November 17-19, 2015 at the Sheraton Seattle. The conference is 2.5 days, complete with keynotes, breakouts, networking opportunities and a reception. The conference will...
From Beth Sarver at Truman Medical Center's Resilience Incubator for a summit June 8-12, 2015: TMC’s Resilience Incubator invites Schools from all over the KC Metro area to attend their Inaugural Resilient Schools Facilitator...
Just because Aitkin County doesn’t have a brick-and-mortar mental health center for children with mental health problems doesn’t mean the county does not have good children’s mental health support. That is the message Sue...
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced Tuesday the statewide expansion of a juvenile justice program that requires law enforcement officers to inform schools anytime a student is exposed to a traumatic event or act of...
Recent articles in The Times regarding child endangerment charges brought to the father in the tragic death of a 9-month-old baby girl ("Prosecutor: Father failed to give daughter medication," March 25) and parents of five children living in...
I have a psychotherapy practice in Madrid, but I often receive email requests for counseling from people in other parts of the world, since I also practice psychotherapy online, via Skype, in several languages: English, French, Italian and...
Domestic violence takes many forms. The control of a woman's reproductive choices by her partner is one of them. A major study published in PLOS One, led by McGill PhD student Lauren Maxwell, showed that women who are abused by their partner or...
A history of depression may put women at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to research published in the latest issue of theJournal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursingby researchers from Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON). This study also pointed to how common depression is during pregnancy and the need for screening and education. "Women with a history of depression should be aware of their risk...
Patients advised to lose weight by their physicians dropped more pounds on average than those who didn't receive a recommendation, according to new research from the University of Georgia published in the journalEconomics & Human Biology. Using a national data set from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, study author Joshua Berning found that physician advice was associated with a reported 10-pound loss for women and a 12-pound loss for men...
Children who play video games for more than three hours a day are more likely to be hyperactive, get involved in fights and not be interested in school, says a new study. It examined the effects of different types of games and time spent...
Experiences of loneliness and social isolation can lead to increased health care use among older adults, according to new research from the University of Georgia College of Public Health. The study, published online in the American Journal of...
Social equity should be something to work toward for its own sake, but in case public officials needed extra motivation, it's also been tied to prolonged economic growth. A recent report by the International Monetary Fund found that more...
Electroconvulsive therapy remains a powerful and fast-acting salve for patients whose depression doesn't yield to lesser treatments, and now researchers believe they know why: A new study finds that shocking the brain induces structural changes...
Researchers at MIT and Northwestern University have developed a new peer-to-peer networking tool that enables sufferers of anxiety and depression to build online support communities and practice therapeutic techniques. In a study involving 166...