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Looking at this through a trauma-informed lens, if their parents were included in the therapy, would more children  benefit?  Results of the federally funded research, to be published online Jan. 29 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry ,...

"Parents spank with good intentions -- they believe it will promote good behavior, and they don't intend to harm the child. But research increasingly indicates that spanking is actually a harmful practice," said Holden, lead author on the study....

(Left to right, Jessica Letarte, Elsa Higareda, Diana Ayala, Glenda Linares, David Gomez, and Ben Wright) Here's a few of our conference team, hard at work. Behind them is our highly advanced workshop scheduling tool, otherwise known as a wall. We...

Dr. Jeffrey Brenner,  f ounder and executive director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and a 2013 MacArthur Foundation genius award winner, wrote this essay for The Field Clinic  on Philly.com. For nearly 15 years we’ve...

Toni J., an effervescent 16-year-old who talks on speed-dial, lives with 11 family members in West Oakland, on a street buffeted by gang activity and poverty. Her mother died of an overdose, her father in a revenge shooting. In ninth grade, she was...

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Today a  legal challenge  to the benefit cap will be brought by three families, two of them victims of domestic violence, in the court of appeal. The benefit cap has wide implications. Solicitor Rebekah Carrier describes it as "catastrophic,...

A priest told a former resident of a church-run children's home in Northern Ireland that he was the product of an evil and satanic relationship, an inquiry has heard. The son of an unmarried mother said he became a zombie, introverted and fearing the...

Dr. Kemi Alli, chief medical officer at the Henry J. Austin Health Center in Trenton, wrote this op-ed for NJ.com. Nothing is more important to the people of Trenton than our children. Recently, the Public Health Management Corporation released...

The Winter 2014 issue of Trauma Matters is out. It's published by the Connecticut Women’s Consortium and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services in support of the Connecticut Trauma Initiative.  The lead...

...some legislators still think the best way to discourage certain behaviors is to jack the cost of engaging in that behavior through the roof.  ...Legislators basically said the same thing about drugs in the 1980s. That decision led to...

In December 2012, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, did a one-hour interview with Dr. Gabor Maté. It's old, but Because it's not on Vimeo or YouTube, this can't be added to the video section. Although this is a year old, it's an interesting...