This article demonstrates how stressors can build upon each other: At any given time, there may be a few hundred homeless people in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, huddling under the overpasses from the persistent Washington rain....
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons Your biological age may be affected by aspects of your environment, including toxic stress: Why are some 75-year-olds downright spry while others can barely get around? Part of the explanation, say researchers...
The number of reported cases of child abuse is increasing, and they may be getting more serious: A father shakes his infant daughter from side to side so violently that the child requires surgery to relieve bleeding in her brain. She dies three months...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons New research on mice may teach us something important about human stress and resilience: New research in mice show certain neurons in the brain may determine whether someone is depressed or resilient Some people...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons It's not only parents' behavior and trauma that has large impacts on children's behavior. A new study shows that children with depressed teachers have more behavioral problems than children who do not have...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons We already know how the stress of ACEs can impact obesity. Now new research suggests t he economic stress of the recession may also impacting obesity. Amid the lasting recession more families have had to cut...
Promiscuity is sometimes used by individuals in an attempt to cope with their ACEs. This study could help us better understand the link between promiscuity and adverse health outcomes: In a new study, Patricia Johnson, a professor of microbiology,...
There are many ways to prevent some violent tragedies, including high-quality mental-health treatment at all levels. But calling for more involuntary hospitalizations isn’t among them. In the wake of this weekend’s mass murder at the...
Abstract Objective: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include emotional, physical and sexual abuse as well as household dysfunction experienced before age 18. Research has demonstrated that ACEs put individuals at increased risk for a wide...
You are in a grocery store behind a mother and her young son who appears to be about three years old. The child innocently takes a candy bar from a shelf, opens the packaging and begins to eat it. His mother, noticing what he’s done, grabs him...
Cristian Fernandez, the Jacksonville boy who pleaded guilty to manslaughter last year in the high-profile death of his 2-year-old half brother, is not getting the trauma therapy he needs for being abused and exposed to violence since his early...
What would make Homer healthier? That question was addressed by 39 health-care providers, agency representatives, teachers and concerned community members last Friday, but the focus of the meeting was much more specific. “The purpose (of the...
When riding long distances you get into a rhythm, put your head down, pedal forward and focus on the road ahead, often missing the landscape that surrounds you. So I know that it was serendipity that made me look up and notice the juvenile detention...
I am a 44 year old student who gained her degree over in the UK more years ago than I care to remember! I have always wanted to study Psychology and 3 children and a move across the pond later (I am British by birth) I have finally got the resources...
“My girlfriend is going to kill herself,” the woman said. “I have a girlfriend who’s a corrections officer, and she’s talking about killing herself. I just don’t know what to do.” Norman Seabrook,...