Under a bill pending in Congress, states would be forbidden to lock up juveniles who violate a court order by committing a status offense. States would be forbidden to lock up juveniles who violate a court order by committing a status offense like...
A simple and effective emotion-regulation strategy that has neurologically and behaviorally been proven to lessen the emotional impact of personal negative memories, researchers have shown. "Sometimes we dwell on how sad, embarrassed, or hurt we felt...
Canada’s prison watchdog has launched an investigation into the prescribing practices in federal prisons, after it was revealed that more than 60 per cent of female inmates across the country are receiving psychiatric medication. A joint...
EASTER is a time of new beginnings. It is the answer, the pastor Rick Warren remarks, to loss and despair. A few weeks ago, one year after his son took his life while struggling with depression, Mr. Warren, the founding pastor of Saddleback Church,...
It's not just kids who are overdoing screen time. Parents are often just as guilty of spending too much time checking smartphones and e-mail — and the consequences for their children can be troubling. Dr. Jenny Radesky is a pediatrician...
Research has long shown that locking up young people puts them at greater risk of dropping out of school, joining the unemployment line and becoming permanently entangled in the criminal justice system. States and municipalities have thus been sending...
Slightly more than half (51.8 percent) of the 8.6 million American adults who had serious thoughts of suicide in the past year did not receive mental health services according to a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...
Does it all go back to childhood or not? Problems with universal generalizations aside, do we get to blame everything on our childhoods? I don’t know about that, but apparently the connection between early childhood trauma and later...
Using Crayola markers set on each round table, small groups of adults from the Greeley area — school outreach workers, Boys and Girls Club staff and foster parents — created poster-sized pictures of what mental health problems look like....
The nature of psychological resilience has, in recent years, been a subject of enormous interest to researchers, who have wondered how some people endure and even thrive under a certain amount of stress, and others crumble and fall prey to depression....
Education programs in juvenile justice systems across the United States are not providing incarcerated youth with the skills and education they need to reenter school and society, a report from the Southern Education Foundation finds. The report,...
The Regional Academies hosted in Ashland and Akron last week -- The Long-term Health Effects of Violence, Abuse, and Trauma: Implications of the ACE Study for Healthcare Practice and Public Policy -- in collaboration with the Academy on Violence and...
Dear Counselor...Book: Dear Counselor… Is an inspiring guide to bring awareness and insight into ways of coping with issues surrounding substance abuse, college binge drinking, productive parenting, self-esteem, mental illness, body rocking,...
In 2009, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a study that revealed what seems to be a shocking truth: those who live in societies with a higher level of income inequality are at a greater risk for premature death. Here...