Teen and young adult drug use is a growing epidemic and the way we have thought about teen drug use and when to refer to treatment certainly needs to be rethought. The view from many professionals working in law enforcement, school systems, health...
About 10 to 20 percent of women suffer from new-onset depression during pregnancy or after giving birth. Untreated, the impact of such illness can be profound, ranging from substance abuse, poor prenatal care, and miscarriages to impaired infant...
“Am I going to go to jail for hitting you?” my 4-year-old son asked me the other night as I helped him get ready for bed. Earlier in the day he’d had a temper tantrum when I picked him up from school. On the teary walk to our...
Audie Cornish talks with Dr. Marva Robinson, a clinical psychologist who has been working with people in Ferguson, Mo., to help them recognize signs of psychological trauma and to deal with the trauma they've experienced. Video of Eric Garner's...
(This post can be found at http://blog.dc4k.org/archives/3305) Recently I was chatting online with a group of children’s ministers when someone brought up the subject of suicide in children. No one wants to think that children...
From the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University: Most commonly, the term resilience has come to mean an individual's ability to overcome adversity and continue his or her normal development. However, the RRC uses a more ecological...
Even having read about and talked with people about Neurofeedback Therapy for the last couple of years, I still really had no concept of what it was like. Yesterday, I had my very first treatment session of Neurofeedback Therapy...
Juvenile record sealing is an integral part of the juvenile justice system’s focus on rehabilitation. Having a juvenile record can limit a young person’s ability to apply for a job, college and various state licenses, including the license...
Not long ago I interviewed Dr. Todd Sorensen, the CEO of Regional West Medical Center, a 184-bed facility serving a large swath of rural western Nebraska. I've known Dr. Sorensen since junior high school, and we've kept in touch over the years to...
Judith Scott was an artist based in Oakland, Calif., who made abstract works from fiber and found objects. Some of them are small and slender, like a hunter-gatherer’s quiver. Some are large enough to cradle in both arms. Some you would...
President Barack Obama is expected to sign an executive order intended to ensure that law enforcement agencies that receive military-style equipment from the federal government receive proper training, White House officials said Monday. A...
Many infants who live in a stressed single-parent home face attachment issues. The single parent, which could be a mom or a dad, might be in a state of shock and barely surviving. They take the child to childcare, work a full day, pick up the child,...
Comprehensive report on the state of mental health across America prepared by Mental Health America: Parity or Disparity: The State of Mental Health in America. ...
A new systematic review in the American Journal of Health Promotion finds that providing public parks and walking and biking trails is the most cost-effective strategy to increase physical activity among large populations in urban areas. Virpi...
’ve never understood the “one or the other” mentality. Being a mother, I am in an ever present state of multi-tasking. So when a male acquaintance said that the Cosby scandal was a a distraction from the grand jury decision regarding...