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Made In America: Bloods and Crips
Made In America: Bloods and Crips Free to watch on Netflix, this doc is a great review (or introduction) to this ongoing gang rivalry that has taken so many lives. It also gives a brief history of the segregation of black people and culture in L.A. as...
Developmental Trauma: What You Can’t See? Can Hurt You...
What you can’t see, can hurt you. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and brain science, trauma and attachment specialists are calling for serious treatment of developmental trauma. Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) was identified by Dr. van der...
Giving Up on 4-Year-Olds (NYTimes editorial)
A new report released by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, examining the disciplinary practices of the country’s 97,000 public schools, shows that excessively punitive policies are being used at every level of the...
Op-Ed: Children Deserve Better
One of the largest and most important, yet often overlooked, public health studies of our time, the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), concluded: What happens to you when you are a child has a...
Rick Warren: Churches Must Do More to Address Mental Illness
There are hundreds of conferences around the world by health professionals, government officials and NGO’s which address mental illness from medical, social, and policy perspectives, but the Church, with its vast network of volunteers and...
‘Holistic’ Criminal Defense Gains Footing in Bay Area
California is no stranger to holistic medicine, holistic massage or holistic music (think soothing nature sounds). There's even a pet store in Berkeley called the Holistic Hound. Now comes a new twist on the notion -- holistic criminal defense....
Four in 10 Infants Lack Strong Parental Attachments
In a study of 14,000 US children, 40 percent lack strong emotional bonds -- what psychologists call 'secure attachment' -- with their parents that are crucial to success later in life, according to a new report. The researchers found that these...
PTSD From Your ZIP Code: Urban Violence and the Brain
A growing number of programs treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in war veterans. But far fewer treat Americans who suffer from the PTSD that comes with their ZIP code. And this kind of PTSD may be affecting even more people. A recent study...
Alaska Health Collective Aims To Address Trauma
Community providers are continuing a collaborative health effort on the lower Kenai Peninsula, now buoyed by a fresh round of health assessment information. Some new goals will include continuing work through the programs and partnerships already...
Study: Project to Improve Intellect of Poor Children Led to Better Health
In 1972, researchers in North Carolina started following two groups of babies from poor families. In the first group, the children were given full-time day care up to age 5 that included most of their daily meals, talking, games and other stimulating...
International Database to Help Child Abuse Investigators
A cloud-based service that will enable law enforcement in the UK to quickly compare seized child abuse content against an international database is to launch in the next six months. The ultimate goal is to help authorities quickly identify the most...
Chronic Stress in Early Life Causes Anxiety Later
In experiments to assess the impacts of social stress upon adolescent mice, both at the time they are experienced and during adulthood, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory team conducted many different kinds of stress tests and means of measuring their...
Tara Brach Free Webinar Fri Mar 28, 9 am PST, noon EST - so good I watched it twice
Dr. Tara Brach's NICABM webinar, "A Deeper Love: Discover the Power of Mindfulness," was first broadcast yesterday. Luckily they ran it twice and I got that "limbic resonance" looking into Tara's eyes (no "still face"!) both times. Next and...
Chemistry is My Enemy - Now the Yale Science is In
Do you get hurt in romance? It finally hit me in 2009: “Chemistry is my enemy!” Something inside me was creating “serial attraction” to “unsafe” people who couldn't attach, so I needed to heal me. Now science...