Up until now, the most shocking statistic about the American criminal justice system was this: we house 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of the world's prisoners. Here's a stat that's even more troublesome: By age 23, nearly 50...
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is providing resources for mental health professionals, law enforcement personnel, health care professionals, and survivors on how to recognize signs of trafficking and provide services for human...
The 'alarming' rise in overweight and obese adults in developing countries is growing into a huge public health burden, says one of the authors of a new report from a UK think tank. The 130-page report, Future Diets, from the Overseas Development...
Intimate partner violence in women (sometimes referred to as domestic violence) is linked to termination of pregnancy, according to a study by UK researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine . The study, led by Susan Bewley from Kings College...
Emergency departments may not be the best choice for persons suffering from severe mental illness or emotional distress. According to a new qualitative study by DePaul University School of Nursing researchers, persons in a mental health crisis may be...
Some 30 minutes of meditation daily may improve symptoms of anxiety and depression, a new Johns Hopkins analysis of previously published research suggests. "A lot of people use meditation, but it's not a practice considered part of mainstream medical...
Camelia Hostinar and Megan Gunnar of the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota published this in Current Directions in Psychological Science. The field of psychobiology has two major theories for talking about stress and...
ACEsConnection member Teri Barila, who oversees the Children's Resilience Initiative in Walla Walla, WA, with Mark Brown, wrote this essay for the Union-Bulletin in response to a story about the retirement of ACEsConnection member Jim Sporleder...
The Denton Record-Chronicle and the Dallas Morning News are planning on doing a series of stories about domestic violence for the rest of 2014 (more info below). From the articles that were written announcing the series, I'm a little...
Here's a great tool for you - for building resilience and attachment based care organizations. Why? In the US alone, more than 500.000 kids are placed outside home, in Europe 1.5 mio., and globally 143 million have lost contact with their parents....
A front page story in the December 2, 2013 New York Times (headline “Seeing the Toll, Schools Revise Zero Tolerance” ) reported on the significant progress being made around the country to reduce the destructive impact of the...
This story, by Danny Zwerdling, a fabulous NPR reporter, address how the US Army is trying to change its toxic leadership system. My questions: Is this just one step to a trauma-informed system? Could the US Army benefit from adopting the Sanctuary or...
This abstract from Amity L. Noltemeyer, assistant professor of educational psychology at Miami University in Ohio is free, but if you aren't a subscriber to School Psychology International, the article will cost you $25. Children and...
The first time I saw a group from BACA, it was at a hearing about child sex abuse in the California State Legislature. When they walked in, everyone sat up and took notice. Here's a story about a group in Connecticut. Every year, more than 3.5 million...