Date: February 13, 2014 Source: Stanford University Fifty years of research has revealed the sad truth that the children of lower-income, less-educated parents typically enter school with poorer language skills than their more privileged counterparts....
Dealing with the aftermath of a suicide or attempted suicide is stressful enough. But some health plans make a harrowing experience worse by refusing to cover medical costs for injuries that are related to suicide, even though the federal health law...
The study led by Dr Nicholas Walsh, lecturer in developmental psychology at the University of East Anglia (UEA), used brain imaging technology to scan teenagers aged 17-19. It found that those who experienced mild to moderate family difficulties...
Did you know that 90 percent of people served by public behavioral health systems have experienced trauma? People with mental illnesses and addictions whose trauma goes unaddressed have poor health outcomes, including exacerbated mental health...
Nowhere does this say it's trauma-informed or resilience-building care, but in this experiment, when babies "sucked correctly on their pacifier, a special device with sensors and speakers, they were rewarded by hearing their mother singing a lullaby....
New American Media health reporter Viji Sundaram wrote this story; Jacob Simas did the video of Sam Charles. "At least now I know what I'm fighting, it's called depression," said Sam Charles, 23, about the last six months of counseling he's received...
Can this possibly be right? A couple of weeks ago, I listened to one of the trauma 'greats' Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. He was humane and wise, and had us all enthralled for 7 hours straight. But in the middle of the flow of information that now occupies...
Dear Survivor, “Because then I knew it was over.” That’s what most strive to feel about the lingering effects of childhood abuse, although not about the actual events. Those are long gone, and often dissociated from awareness....
The sensational claims were made by Ian Elliott, who authored several high-profile reports on the handling of allegations of child sexual abuse in various dioceses. He told the Sunday Independent that the work of the National Board for Safeguarding...
In 2006, there were 399 partner/family member assaults reported to law enforcement in Missoula County. Six years later, there were 525. And domestic violence-related crime has nearly doubled in that time. In 2006, officers responded to 485 reports of...
Business bestseller lists are heavy with tales of inspirational leadership but a group of academics is gleaning lessons for management from the "dark side" by studying the methods of Pol Pot, the dictator responsible for the "killing fields" of...
Solitary confinement has been called a “ living death ,” cruel and unusual , and torture . Studies of the prison practice of placing inmates in a solitary, often concrete windowless cell for 23 hours a day with almost no...
Teenagers at risk of depression, anxiety and suicide often wear their troubles like a neon sign. Their risky behaviors—drinking too much alcohol, using illegal drugs, smoking cigarettes and skipping school—can alert parents and teachers...
... Pediatricians and family doctors handle the majority of office visits for children being medicated for A.D.H.D., according to a 2012 study in the journal Academic Pediatrics. Most experts blame the relative rarity of child...
Holly Smith, author of Walking Prey, did a Q-and-A with survivors of human trafficking in the article about federal efforts to help survivors. Here is an excerpt: Last month, the White House administration announced a five-year “ Federal...