As the national debate over childhood inequities sharpens, recent developments in California highlight struggles over practices critics say deprive some kids of quality class time and fuel a “school-to-prison pipeline.” New state...
Does anyone have any suggestions for materials to train adult residential staff in trauma-informed patient care? Thanks for any feedback! Cris
Three years after Tropical Storm Irene turned their fields into lakes and their cows into swimmers, the owners of Liberty Hill Farm are planting sunflowers, creating beauty where they once saw devastation. Beth Kennett’s eyes still flood...
Reality, if you think about it, is a kind of social contract. You and I might be strangers, but we agree, at least at a really basic level, on what is real. So when you talk to someone who isn't signed onto that same contract, it's kind of...
Women who have been previously hospitalized for bipolar disorder are nearly twice as likely to have premature babies compared to women without a history of mental illness, according to a new study by researchers at Women's College Hospital and the...
A multimodal resilience training program is feasible and acceptable for intensive care unit (ICU) nurses, according to a study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Critical Care. Meredith Mealer, Ph.D., from the University...
Symptoms of mental illness in children and adolescents do not appear to be increasing, according to a large study of Canadian youth published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) "Popular media tends to perpetuate the idea that the...
For the first time, researchers have shown that practising mindfulness meditation or being involved in a support group has a positive physical impact at the cellular level in breast cancer survivors. A group working out of Alberta Health...
Sue Mackey Andrews will talk to anyone about adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs: Pediatricians. Early childcare workers. Parent advocacy groups. And those on the front lines who work with kids, like the longtime school bus driver from rural Maine,...
Bernard Mayes, a multifaceted Anglican priest who started the first suicide hotline in the United States and a decade later became the founding chairman of National Public Radio, died on Oct. 23 in San Francisco. He was 85. Matthew A. Chayt, a...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is now the most prevalent psychiatric illness of young people in America, affecting 11 percent of them at some point between the ages of 4 and 17. The rates of both diagnosis and treatment have increased...
To the Editor: Re “ Toward Better Teachers ” (column, Oct. 29): Frank Bruni, in reflecting on a forthcoming book by a former New York City schools chancellor, Joel Klein, about his tenure leading the country’s largest public...
A college freshman walked to a hospital emergency room at midnight and said she feared that she was going to harm herself. Twelve hours later, after it was determined that she was no longer in danger, she decided to call her parents — but...
Google’s philanthropic arm will give $3 million to pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris ’ Bayview clinic, which has earned international acclaim for its work linking the physical ailments of low-income children to their traumatic...
The incarceration rate in the United States is by far the highest in the world (see Trauma Matters , Fall 2013). According to a recent report by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (2014), “with less than 5% of the...