Braden Swenson wanders into a semi-rickety wooden shed on his search for gold, treasure and riches. "Is there any tweasure in here?" he asks in the endearing dialect of a 4-year-old. "I've been looking everywhere for them. I can't find any." The...
When we last left Stewart the 92-year-old lawyer in Dan Siegel’s office June 25 , “the presenting problem was: his wife got sick, and he became more socially withdrawn… losing himself in his books,” Siegel said....
"When trauma happens, it changes a person, but children are particularly vulnerable because they're going through key developmental stages," she said. "So the earlier someone is traumatized, the more profound an effect it has on them." A new report...
The more fit middle-school girls are, the less likely they may be to develop symptoms of depression, according to a recent study. Although the effect of fitness on depression was small, improvements in fitness may be part of an overall strategy for...
Many of the Central American children who have entered the U.S illegally in recent months have come with a heavy burden — a history of hardship and violence. And many of the children now face difficult and uncertain futures. This has social...
In the U.S. we usually consider prisons and jails to be violent places, as if there were no alternative. We imagine that because violent people are sent there it is a foregone conclusion that violence will happen. What we often overlook is the...
Spanking study: http://news.discovery.com/human/videos/spanking-kids-makes-them-lawbreakers-video.htm Ibuprofin's effects on men and women and emotional pain: ...
Rather than challenge President Obama's birth origins, folks might want to rank his ACE score. Totally absent father, mother drops him off for years with white grandparents in a city where black children are a distinct minority, mother remarries and...
Of course, children shouldn’t be abused, physically or in any other way. Nevertheless, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that 1,600 children die annually from abuse and neglect. Close to 700,000 suffer from non-fatal...
Beating a drug habit is usually a long process that includes talk therapy and, sometimes, medicine. Checking into a rehab facility can help many people, too. But it can be hard to persuade someone to commit to that long-term treatment. So public...
The first time Jeremy Clark met his 18-year-old client, the teenager was sitting in his vice principal’s office, the drawstrings of his black hoodie pulled tight. Jacob had recently disclosed to his friends on Facebook that he was hearing...
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) has released Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 57 “Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services.” The document (342 pages) is downloadable along with the 279-page...
This report from the Juvenile Law Center makes it clear that, in addition to providing services that are "trauma-informed," we need to be mindful of how we use our knowledge of a child's trauma to help and not to hurt. For example, we should not allow...
ADHD seems to be the buzzword of the decade when it comes to children who can't sit still, have a hard time concentrating on one task at a time, or act impulsively. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is certainly no laughing matter -- it can be...
In 2008, 15-year-old Wilmer Villalobos Ortiz fled his native Honduras. The previous year, the 18th Street Gang that controlled his neighborhood tried to recruit him and threatened him with death if he refused. Ortiz’s journey to the United...