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In the first of three articles for the Huffington Post , Jane Ellen Stevens talks about one of the biggest public health studies you’ve never heard of. Dr. Felitti ran an incredibly successful preventative health program, but one of the...

"At Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, we talk a lot about prevention. How do you keep kids out of the child welfare system? Prevention. How do you curb the drop out rate and encourage success in school among kids at risk? Prevention. How do...

"For mothers who are suffering from severe mental illness, interactions with babies significantly improve following specialist video-feedback and treatment on an inpatient Mother and Baby Unit (MBU), according to a new study led by King's College...

"Dads who don't live with their sons still can influence them away from risky behaviors, even if they reside in communities of high crime and poverty. "New research from the University of Michigan School of Public Health measured the impact of a...

"Psychology professor Ross Flom's study, published in the academic journal Infancy, shows that infants can recognize each other's emotions by five months of age. This study comes on the heels of other significant research by Flom on infants' ability...

"When young children gaze intently at something or furrow their brows in concentration, you know their minds are busily at work. But you're never entirely sure what they're thinking. "Now you can get an inside look. Psychologists led by the University...

"The headmaster of the Neighborhood House Charter School is still feeling the effects of the Boston Marathon bombings that killed one of his students and injured another and her mother.... "Asked by Pressley how the children are doing, Andrews...

" Betty Ford Institute past president Dr Garrett O’Connor shares discoveries from decades of experience on how to recover from addiction: the role of shame, resilience, spirituality and survival in mending broken people, commonalities with...

" Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can occur when people experience a traumatic event.  PTSD can affect anyone – from service men and women returning from the horrors of war to abused children and the...

"Large numbers of Irish children are experiencing adverse events that cast a long shadow on their future physical and mental health, a conference has heard. One in seven Irish nine-year-olds has experienced the divorce or separation of their parents,...

Abstract Background Alcohol use is the third most important global-health risk factor and a main contributor to health inequalities. Previous research on social determinants of alcohol-related disorders has delivered inconsistent results. We...

"In my work with adult survivors of sexual assault, I am beginning to notice a pattern of behavior that I have termed “wounded attachment.” The impact of childhood sexual assault has reverberating effects on almost every facet of...