A new white paper , released by the Center for Youth Wellness, highlights the significant health and development challenges faced by children exposed to chronic early adversity, and outlines recommended steps to address this public health problem....
Credit: Education Images/Getty The law prohibits you from spanking your boss, your employee, your spouse, your best friend, or a stranger you walk past on the street. But in the United States, it's still perfectly legal to spank your own...
Image credit: University of California, San Diego Computer scientists at Microsoft Research and the University of California, San Diego have developed a system that combines a mobile application and sensor to detect stress in parents and...
Vincent Schiraldi, senior adviser in the New York Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. Credit: Gwen McClure / JJIE At a workshop this week, advocates and experts discussed, among other things, how trauma affects the brain and why this...
The image shows two levels of the brain, with areas that were more active in healthy controls than in schizophrenia patients shown in orange, during an fMRI study of working memory. Credit: Kim J, Matthews NL, Park S./PLoS One. St. Jude Children's...
This study highlights how factors like depression, low levels of education, physical inactivity and high blood pressure may decrease cognitive functioning, even amongst the young. It's not hard to see how an ACE history would lead to the...
Mark, a California minister, says the day he was first shut out of all treatment discussions regarding his mentally ill teenage son "was the first time we really started to feel hopeless." Credit: Jenny Gold/Kaiser Health News This story raises...
Yoga instructor Maggie Cohen. Credit: Huffington Post This is an interview with Maggie Cohen, a 500-hour advanced vinyasa yoga instructor and proud member of The Breathe Network, an international network of sliding scale, holistic practitioners who...
Gustavo Sagredo is the school counselor at Manual Arts Senior High School. Manual Arts Senior High School is located on South Vermont Avenue in South Central Los Angeles. This neighborhood is located in an area that has a high rate of homicides...
In high-poverty Los Angeles public schools, school-based therapy has been suggested for dealing with toxic stress and trauma-- but there isn't enough money for the counseling services needed. At Benjamin Franklin High School in Highland Park,...
This study provides insight into the health consequences divorce can have on children. It is speculated that this link could be explained by poverty or emotional disruptions. Researchers in Norway have discovered a possible link between...
The responsibility for preventing children from being abused can arguably rest with anyone who interacts with them. However, recognizing child abuse is not as simple as one might imagine. True, there are the obvious cases such as a child who always...
Photo source: WikiMedia Commons This study discusses some of the adverse health (and social) outcomes associated with schizophrenia. New research, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, shows that rates of adverse outcomes,...
What do you do, and what does your organization do? Gwendolyn is the director of a new parenting i nitiative administered by Porter-Leath with the help of two great partners, Knowledge Quest, a local non-profit, and...
This article forces us to think long and hard about what it means to protect children. In August 2009, Mindi, a 25-year-old struggling new parent, experienced what doctors later concluded was a psychotic episode. She had been staying in a cousin's...