During the 18 years he was a counselor at Barratt Middle School in South Philadelphia, Steven Hymans became accustomed to seeing students arrive for classes traumatized beyond their years. “There were so many homicides in the...
I originally wrote this on March 10th. I really wish I had time to write about the greatness I see in my students every single day. Our school is somewhat like an emergency room or trauma center, everyday. The teachers, and...
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass Jane Halladay, director of the service systems program at the National Child Traumatic Stress Network , which developed the Think Trauma ...
If you missed the Toxic! Stress, Health and ACEs webinar hosted by Ascend at the Aspen Institute on Feb. 26, you can download the video here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rm96...0and%20ACEs.wmv?dl=0 And you can find the slides here:...
It’s really quite easy to kill a doctor. Here’s a step-by-step process guaranteed to succeed at least 400 times a year: Start early Be sure to denigrate medical students whenever possible. Even if they’ve come...
One kid’s trauma can be a lot to handle . Managing a whole school of kids who have been traumatized can seem insurmountable. These kids are more likely to act out in class, have attendance problems, and get lower grades than their...
Laura Porter, co-founder ACE Interface (Mike Kelly photo) _____________________________ CHICAGO—Across the United States these days, it seems as if hardly a week goes by without a conference or a workshop about adverse childhood experiences...
Kam Brock was overcome with emotion as she made her way to a New York Police Department impound site to pick up her car, but the cops—for reasons that are still unclear—thought the 32-year-old Long Island woman was emotionally...
This is the fifth installment of Going Off , a series of Anxiety posts chronicling the author’s attempt to wean off the medications she takes for depression, anxiety and insomnia. • Last night at the karaoke place, I could...
Why is it so hard to feel empathy for strangers? Because we're stressed by them, says neuroscientist Jeff Mogil. His research suggests one way to reduce that stress: play Rock Band together. About Jeff Mogil Dr. Jeffrey Mogil is the E.P....
Founded by two men in Akron, Ohio, in 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous has since spread around the world as a leading community-based method of overcoming alcohol dependence and abuse. Many people swear by the 12-step method, which has become the...
Here are tools available “right now” which I use anytime, even at 3 am when friends or therapist can’t be reached (tho’ I do leave voice mails and it helps enormously. Ask them to turn off their phone on retiring, then try it.)...
Here's a paper wherein we identified the relationship between mental problems and physical problems in a population. The main assumption was that one gateway to adult mental disorder is early adversity. ...
Miguel Coyula points at an open door in the middle of Old Havana. The mahogany door looks worn, but still handsome. The concrete facade has lost most of its paint, and time has ripped parts of it open. "That's marble," Coyula says, pointing to...
California high school students who have a parent in the military are far more likely than those from civilian families to have recently attempted suicide, according to a new study. The findings are based on a survey of ninth and 11th graders...