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By Elissa Strauss, Photo: Steve Pfost/ Newsday RM/Getty Images, CNN Health, April 22, 2022 It has become harder for children to experience childhood as a time of blissful ignorance about the state of our planet. Climate change, racism, discrimination, poverty and gun violence are affecting their daily lives, giving them plenty to be upset about it and often inspiring them to fight for change. Role models such as Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai prove that sometimes when kids take action,...

The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and the New York Foundling are sponsoring a FREE ZOOM CHAT to discuss and answer questions about NO HIT ZONES, a primary prevention strategy to help change norms and behavior related to a very common ACE (the hitting of children). The Chat features Dr. Elizabeth Gershoff (leading global researcher on impacts of corporal punishment) and Stacie LeBlanc, President of APSAC and co- founder of the primary prevention oriented UP...

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KEY POINTS By using telemental health, psychotherapists do not have to wait until after the war or displacement to provide mental health support. Psychotherapists can field difficult questions from individuals stemming from living in a war zone to reduce the effects of toxic stress. Amid war, stress reduction methods can be taught using telemental health to increase the well-being of children and adults. I waited in a bread line and, suddenly, there was shelling. Tragically, half of the...

Summary: A progressive exercise training program may help mitigate some of the psychological and physiological effects of adverse childhood experiences in otherwise healthy young women. Source: Experimental Biology New research shows a progressive exercise training program mitigates some physiological and psychological effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) in otherwise healthy young women. These experiences are linked to “lasting, negative effects on health, well-being, as well as...

After more than a decade of working with the public, disseminating what I call the science of connection, I find myself often mulling over a question: Why does our culture still have such a poor appreciation of the impact of childhood experiences? I write this piece while watching television coverage of war refugees streaming across the borders of Ukraine. These are children, pouring out of a European country now under bombing from its neighbour. The last time such scenes occurred, it was...

LIVE Legacy Interview Suzanne Zeedyk Tuesday 26 April 2022, 7-9pm UK, 2-4pm EST, 12-2pm MT, 11am-1pm PT A recording will made for all ticket holders The latest LIVE MINDinMIND Legacy Interview is with Suzanne Zeedyk, one of the leading science communicators of her generation who will be in conversation with Jane O'Rourke. Suzanne is driven by a desire to communicate to the widest possible audience the Science of Connection. Her talks about attachment, trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences...

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By Bill Weir, Photo: Bill Weir, CNN Travel, April 22, 2022 Dear River, It's just over two years since you joined our Little Blue Marble ride through the Milky Way and now that you can say things like "Bill Weir I want banana smoothie," it's time to learn the difference between "Happy Birthday" and "Happy Earth Day." Both are in April, but one of them has cake and Hopalong Andy and the other, frustration with humanity. Both involve balloons, only on Earth Day we get pick their deflated shards...

By Dorothy Roberts, Photo: iStock, The Washington Post, April 15, 2022 The U.S. Children’s Bureau describes the child welfare system as “a group of services designed to promote the well-being of children by ensuring safety, achieving permanency, and strengthening families.” But developments like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent instructions to state agencies to investigate gender-affirming medical care as possible child abuse have helped to shatter the system’s benevolent veneer. Many people...

By Aditi Ranaswami, Photo: Joy Asico/AP, The Lever, April 21, 2022 Welcome to the Cheat Sheet, The Lever’s weekly feature exclusively for our supporting subscribers that quickly gets you up to speed on a pressing news matter. Each week, we will show you exactly what you need to know — including vital information corporate media is trying to cheat you out of learning. Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” The founding father would have been wise to add...

By Katherine E Marçal and Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Photo: fizkes/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, April 20, 2022 Families of color and those with low incomes face high risk of experiencing housing cost burden, eviction, and housing instability. Housing instability can create challenges for adolescents, including higher levels of depression and psychological challenges, as well as behavioral issues. It can also cause increased interactions with other social systems, like the child welfare and...