My mother went into teaching after receiving her bachelors degree at Rutgers University in Camden in 1975. At the time I was a senior at Holy High School in Delran N.J., and remember Camden having its share of poverty, but on this day as I drive...
[Photo: David Joles/StarTribune.com] Paige McConkey leans across the kitchen table in a gray bungalow, talking to 11-year-old Meadow Eberle about times she’s lashed out in unprovoked anger. Her father was killed in a drunken driving crash 16 months ago. His best friend, almost an uncle to Meadow, was driving and now sits in jail. “Are you ever angry for what seems to be no reason?” he asks. “You’re dealing with things that are tough to take. You have all...
Frustrated by a lack of rape prosecutions , West Valley police Detective Justin Boardman is developing a new way to investigate sexual assaults based on recent research surrounding the neurobiology of trauma. Important to a successful...
Photo: J. Kaarzyna Woronowicz As veterans have returned from the nation’s two longest wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, families, veterans groups and providers often prioritize addressing the needs of wounded service members. Frequently lost in...
There's a simple way to understand how traumatized a young child feels when a parent is incarcerated, says Ann Adalist-Estrin, director of the National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Rutgers–Camden. Imagine how...
I am 2/3 of the way through this Certification (birthpsychologyedu.com), provided by the Association for Pre and PeriNatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH - www.birthpsychology.com ). In various ways I have been aware of the trauma that babies and...
On June 17, 2014, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)hosted a daylongSymposium on Child Health, Resilience & Toxic Stress in Washington, DC. Theeventconvened federal policymakers, national thought leadersand partner organizations to discuss the emerging science demonstrating the impact of toxic stress on a childs lifelong health. The Symposiumalso helped create consensus on a broad, implementable vision to strengthen federal policies...
From the Women For One Truthtellers Series : Donna Syed's "Seeds" is a vignette glimpse into the life of the author's experience with childhood trauma offering an intimate look behind closed doors victim and condoned kid-bully, onward through depths...
Photo credit: David Robert Bliwas, Flickr All Montanans have the power to prevent child abuse. Each year, approximately 1,300 cases of child abuse or neglect are confirmed in Montana. A majority involve child neglect but they also include...
Photo: A scene from the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. This primer offers both statistics about the use of solitary confinement and the psychological and emotional harm it can cause. There may be as many as 80,000 American...
We live in the only country in the world where a child can be sentenced to be in prison until they die. What's worse is that it's not even rare — more than 2,500 people who were sentenced as kids will spend the rest of their lives in...
A new book, "Total Recovery: Solving the Mystery of Chronic Pain and Depression," looks at how trauma affects the body and how alternative therapies can alleviate psychological and physical suffering. Integrative medicine is a hot topic in health care...
Understanding the basis of psychiatric disorders has been extremely challenging because there are many genetic variants that may increase risk but are insufficient to cause disease. Now investigators reporting in the July 3rd issue of the Cell Press...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons Finding creative ways to engage parents is critical for the academic success that can lift children out of adverse experiences. If we had a road map to what parental involvement in schools should be, what would it...
Not surprising to those familiar with the ACE study, one of the predictors of binge drinking at 16 is exposure to several stressful life events. Neuroscientists leading the largest longitudinal adolescent brain imaging study to date have learned that...