I was sad on Valentines day for ten years until this year. Today I'm ridiculously happy - and I owe a lot of it to John James, Russell Friedman, and their Grief Recovery Handbook. If you're sad today, please use their book - it works!...
As Richmond’s Department of Social Services rushed to clear a backlog of reports of child abuse and neglect, certificates of recognition were presented to those who closed the most cases, workers were beneficiaries of an “anonymous gift...
More than 1.1 million or 7% of women and 720,000 or 4% of men have been victims of some kind of domestic abuse in the past year, official crime figures reveal. The full scale of the hidden world of sexual assault, family abuse and stalking is...
The Sensible Sentencing Trust (SST) is outraged by the latest findings by the Salvation Army’s State of the Nation report on child abuse. According to the report, children continue to be violently and sexually assaulted at a disturbing rate in...
It’s more than the wraparound services—it’s a wraparound community where the pathways to good outcomes are clear because there are a set of norms and a culture that promotes children’s success. It is about putting into a place...
Adverse childhood experiences across the population have serious long-term health implications for society. Des Moines University, a graduate medical/health sciences institution in Iowa's capital, examined the issue in the winter 2014 issue of our...
Childhood obesity rates have nearly tripled in the previous 30 years and researchers are asking the important question of how this epidemic will impact the future health of these obese children and public health in general. A University of Colorado...
These findings won't appear on any Hallmark card, but romantic love tends to activate the same reward areas of the brain as cocaine, research has shown. ow Yale School of Medicine researchers studying meditators have found that a more selfless variety...
Seven out of 10 adolescents with mental health problems also suffer from chronic physical pain. Depressed girls suffer the most. For the first time researchers have studied the kind of physical pain that troubles adolescents with different...
...Senate Bill 106, which unanimously cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, would allow judges issuing emergency protective or domestic violence orders to also authorize a concealed carry permit for the person seeking protection. Never...
You hear it over and over again: Love what you do. Do you what you love. And while we all want work that interests and engages us, that’s not the only thing that matters when it comes to finding meaning at work. You have to feel...
James R. Silkenat, president of the American Bar Association, wrote this op-ed for the Chicago Sun-Times. It's well worth a read. Here's part of it: ...Everyone engaged in the criminal justice system should be trained in trauma-informed practices,...
Keith Conners can be considered the father of ADHD. He did the early studies, helped work out the definition, developed the most widely used diagnostic tools, and did research that led to treatment guidelines. He knows as much about ADHD as anyone on...
When Metro released a 22-page report in September outlining changes to the way the city handles domestic violence, it didn’t mention that victims had been waiting up to four hours for an officer to arrive. Nor did it mention that judges and...
New ACEsConnection member Barb Boose co-wrote this great feature story about ACEs for Des Moines University. Nadine Burke Harris and Suzanne Mineck are quoted, and details of the Iowa ACEs Study are provided. “Each of us knows someone...