My Brain Made Me Do It
A very interesting perspective !! http://www.mindful.org/mindful-magazine/my-brain-made-me-do-it
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In Vallejo, CA, schools -- where referrals, suspensions, expulsions outnumbered students 5 to 1-- there's no place to go but up
When Dr. Ramona Bishop walked into her office on April Fool’s Day in 2011, the Vallejo schools had hit rock-bottom: The system had been in receivership since 2004. Its 14,000 students were racking up nearly 80,000 referrals,...
Nominate World Class Attachment Therapists
https://www.facebook.com/events/1431979193690531/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming Friends, please list up to 5, or, your 5 most favorite world class, expert, cutting edge, highly qualified therapists or psychologists who have an outstanding...
Cycle of Trauma
As I sit here thinking about an elementary school classmate who recently passed away, I wonder about many of the other young boys who attended school with me. Many of them seemed pretty angry and would explode at the drop of a dime. I was...
The Education Gap [transcript and audio] - (50 min) Michigan
"We’ll visit two 5th grade classrooms this hour. One class is made up of kids whose families are mostly well-off: "In general the kids have a lot of help. Their parents are role models. Most of them come from families where their parents are...
"Stories of Complicated Grief: A Critical Anthology"
25 October 2013 : I had the pleasure of taking part in this very special project on complicated grief, titled Stories of Complicated Grief: A Critical Anthology , edited by Eric Miller, PhD. It will soon be released by NASW Press , and if...
How are children affected by maternal anxiety and depression?
"Maternal symptoms of anxiety and depression increased the risk of emotional and disruptive problem behaviors in children as early as 18 months of age, according to new research findings from the TOPP study. The risk persisted into adolescence and...
SF State has highest graduation rate of former foster youth in state - California
" Only 1 percent of former foster youth go to college , according to the Guardian Scholars Program. Of that 1 percent, only 11 percent graduate. Advocates like the Guardian Scholars Program and California College Pathways say such low numbers are due...
Report cites lack of staffing, security cameras for incidents of abuse in state youth prisons - Illinois
"Youths in Illinois juvenile prisons suffered higher rates of sexual assault than those in other states because of the lack of adequate staffing and state-of-the-art security cameras and a failure to spot "red flag" behavior, a report released...
Well-established views on heritable intelligence brought down: Genes and environment play dynamic role together
"The well-established view that intelligence is largely genetically fixed and hardly malleable has been discarded. A team of Dutch research methodologists at VU University Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam and Tilburg University propose that the...
Parity laws for substance use disorders linked to increase in access to treatment
"Led by Hefei Wen, in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Rollins School of Public Health, the study examined the effect of state-level SUD parity laws that require private health plans to provide coverage for SUD treatment equal to...
A new way of looking at teenage temperament
"Dr. Hollenstein and co-researcher Jessica Lougheed (Psychology) are proposing an approach they call the 4Ts – Typicality, what is normal for this age; Transactions, interactions between biological changes and their environment; Temperament,...
New Family Resource Center aims to reduce abuse - Massachusetts
"Twenty-six year-old Rey-De Santana is a member of the father’s training group at the new Family Resource Center in Holyoke, where parents work with other parents to cope with family problems that might lead to child abuse. Santana told 22News...
Columbus Meeting Seeks Ways To Help Child Abuse Victims - Ohio
"Local, state, and national experts gathered in Columbus earlier this to discuss ways to better serve victims of child abuse and neglect. "Doctor Vincent Felitti is the author of a major study on adverse childhood experiences. Felitti says trauma...