Krauss has been focusing for more than 20 years on how to minimize acute pain and anxiety in children undergoing medical procedures. “I first became interested in it when I was working at Cambridge Hospital in the late 1980s,” he said in...
T oday’s Denver Post Article r eports a just completed state child protection workload study that indicates a need for 574 more child protection workers to keep abused and neglected children safe in the state (a 49% increase). Of...
Just read this in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08...te&nlid=56829562 Scientists at MIT have discovered a way to neutralize bad memories--and they're using mice. This is a must read for future "healing" methodologies.
Researchers asked women about things that had recently stressed them out. The women were then given a fat-and calorie-packed meal of eggs, turkey sausage and biscuits and gravy. The researchers then measured the womens’ metabolism, blood sugar,...
Last week, a grand jury was convened in St. Louis County, Mo., to examine the evidence against the police officer who killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, and to determine if he should be indicted. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. even...
Say a pediatrician notices that one of her teenage patients is showing signs of depression. In most cases, the doctor will notify parents and prescribe an antidepressant or recommend a therapist. The trouble is, many of those teens won't go to therapy...
When Yuri Maldonado's 6-year-old son was diagnosed with autism four years ago, she learned that getting him the therapy he needed from California's Medicaid plan for low-income children was going to be tough. Medi-Cal, as California's plan is called,...
On Tuesday, August 19 th , 2014, the first day of my Advanced Level Field Placement as an M.S.W. Student at Temple University, I participated in the second Philadelphia ACEs Virtual Connection Group “Meet-Up” at the Friends Center . ...
Report says failings in political and police leadership contributed to gang rape and trafficking in South Yorkshire. Blatant failures of political and police leadership contributed to the sexual exploitation of 1,400 children in ...
"Kids who are exposed to the kind of stress we're talking about tend to be at higher risk for all kinds of psychopathology and mental illness, including depression, anxiety, behavior problems, academic problems, and also health problems," says Romens....
Colorado has poor controls over the administration of powerful psychotropic medication to youths in corrections facilities, with state officials unable to show whether they are doing enough to monitor for harmful side effects, according to a state...
For the 16 million American children living below the federal poverty line, the start of a new school year should be a reason to celebrate. Summer is no vacation when your parents are working multiple jobs or looking for one. Many kids are left to...
For Georgetown University freshmen, orientation this week included a new activity: mandatory small-group discussions on sexual assault. "For a lot of the kids, this might be the first time they ever actually talk about sexual assault or what consent...
American kids are getting ready to head back to school. But the schools they're heading back to differ dramatically by family income. Which helps explain the growing achievement gap between lower- and higher-income children. Thirty years ago, the...
States that have legalized marijuana for medical use have lower rates of prescription painkiller overdose deaths than states that have not, new research suggests. In a study published Monday in the latest issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers...