Boys, but not girls, tend to suffer more from depression and conduct disorder after moving from a poor neighborhood to a better one, a new study says. Conduct disorder includes acting-out behaviors such as bullying, fighting, cruelty to people or...
The Affordable Care Act will give an estimated 4 million people who have spent time in U.S. jails better access to health care. This includes coverage for mental illness and substance-abuse problems that increase the risk for being rearrested,...
Jack Shonkoff, director of Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child wrote this article. The first page preview is free, but the whole thing will cost $30 for 24-hour online access. Advances in the biological and social sciences tell...
Background. Considerable evidence now links childhood adversity to a variety of adult health problems. Unfortunately, almost all of these studies have relied upon retrospective assessment of childhood events, creating a vulnerability to bias. In this...
Please take the time, when you can, to watch the 23 minute video contained in this article by Darkness to Light (a Child Sexual Abuse Prevention organization). The voices and stories are told by adult survivors - male and female - who know...
http://www.survivorsnotanonymous.com This is a website-in-progress but it's where you'll find much information about me and the project I'm working on that has happily led me to find ACEs. I know I will be making some perfectly wonderful...
The Obama Administration has proposed a massive federal program aimed at curbing the use of psychotropic medications to treat foster youths, an issue that appeared on the federal radar in 2011. President Barack Obama included in his 2015 budget a plan...
It didn’t take much reading between the lines to decipher the central message of last week’s Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on solitary confinement . Lawmakers and witnesses alike appeared to agree: There are people in solitary...
NEW YORK – There’s not much inside “the box.” Cinder block walls rise up and close in. There’s a bunk, a sink, a toilet and a metal door with a small mesh window. Food comes through a slot. Sometimes, mice and roaches...
When the University of Waterloo in Ontario opened the Research Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments back in 2006, there was a lot that could be studied about simulated cities that couldn't be observed in real ones. Where people's gazes...
SHREWSBURY, Massachusetts – Dr. Robert Brooks and Mr. Rich Brooks present “Raising Resilient Children and Teens in the Digital World” at 7:00PM on April 3, 2014 at Oak Middle School, 45 Oak Street, Shrewsbury, MA . Technology and...
Just like adults, children as young as 3 tend to judge an individual's character traits, such as trustworthiness and competence, simply by looking at the person's face, new research shows. And they show remarkable consensus in the judgments they make,...
Susan Dreyfus wrote this post on Feb. 25, 2014, for the Alliance for Children & Families web site. Yesterday, I attended my first meeting of the Federal Commission on the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Related Fatalities . What an honor to be nominated to this commission by Speaker of the House John Boehner . The highlight of the day for me was the visit we had from Congressman Lloyd Doggett of Texas, a key sponsor of the legislation that created the...
...The governor's proposed budget cuts early childhood programs, including home-visitation, child abuse prevention, and Family Resource Networks. Those cuts could jeopardize millions in matching funds these programs receive. If we cut investments for...
Growing up in a single-parent household as a result of divorce, death or incarceration. Being the victim of racial or ethnic discrimination. Witnessing gun violence in the neighborhood. A report being released today concludes that children in Arizona...