"North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has signed bills into law designed to increase child abuse penalties and monitor some people convicted of human trafficking.... "The law taking effect Dec. 1 increases the maximum penalty for the most serious abuse...
" Northeast Florida social workers got some praise and advice Wednesday from a prominent clinical psychologist who amassed a long list of academic accomplishments -- after being abandoned at age 4 and raised in foster care until he was 18.... "His...
"Prisoners who are psychopaths lack the basic neurophysiological "hardwiring" that enables them to care for others, according to a new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and the University of New Mexico. ""A marked lack of empathy...
"A combination of two tasks for implied sexual associations has distinguished – with more than 90 per cent certainty – a group of paedophilic men from a group of men with a sexual preference for adult women. In the long term this could...
"Asian-Americans experience considerable everyday prejudice and discrimination, reports a Cornell study published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology (Vol. 60:2). The study is one of the first to document the prevalence and effects of racial...
"In the first chapter of Speak , the protagonist Melinda lists the first 10 lies they tell you in high school: We are here to help you. These will be the years you look back on fondly. Melinda is raped at a party the summer before she begins high...
"When we started coding the trauma data, which includes all types of childhood injuries that turn up at these trauma centers, and we noticed the morbid pattern of gun violence-related injuries for children ... that shifted the focus of the study to...
"A specific region of the brain is in play when children consider their identity and social status as they transition into adolescence -- that often-turbulent time of reaching puberty and entering middle school, says a University of Oregon...
"Last year in Norristown, Pa., Lakisha Briggs' boyfriend physically assaulted her, and the police arrested him. But in a cruel turn of events, a police officer then told Ms. Briggs, "You are on three strikes. We're gonna have your landlord evict you."...
"Since the ACE studies, we researchers and professionals in the criminal justice, mental health, and youth development fields have learned or demonstrated that many of us and many of the people we serve have always known intuitively about what helps...
"The push for legislation to establish tougher domestic violence laws and provide support for survivors has been going on for decades, but state Sen. John DeFrancisco, R-Syracuse, says one major event of the 20th century led to a greater emphasis on...
"According to Dr. Bruce Perry (2003), an expert on children maltreatment and traumatized children, he purports that traumatic childhood events constructs a host of risk factors including social factors (e.g. adolescent drug abuse, victimization,...
"Our team at the Yale Child Study Center led by Steven Marans and including Carrie Epstein, Hilary Hahn, Joe Woolston and Megan Goslin, has taken--together with Steve Southwick, William Sledge and others from the Department of Psychiatry -- the lead...
“A balance of compassion for these people who are really, truly hurting while clearly holding them accountable for their choices and behavior.” The balancing act of using psychotherapy to treat aggressors in instances of domestic...