A Camden, NJ Hospital Places Visual Reminders Against Child Abuse - New Jersey “Children respond to (abuse) by sometimes by becoming aggressive,” says Cooper emergency medicine and child abuse specialist Dr. Kathy McCans (third from left...
"The New York City drop-in center for homeless LGBT youth is taking on religion-based familial rejection.... "With a series of videos and an op-ed in The Huffington Post , New York City's Ali Forney Center is encouraging religious parents not to use...
"...The Unity House in south Seattle opened its doors to the public, offering a rare look inside a sex offender halfway house. "Jim Tharpe, Unity House owner, looks at his home as an educational center for convicted sex offenders released from prison....
"In the United States, nearly one in five women have been raped at some point in their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — most of them before age 25. Across the planet, more than one in three women will be...
"Living in a shelter as a kid was horrible. Every time my peers at school spoke about their life at home, I felt uncomfortable knowing I was homeless. The shelter didn’t have cable TV, which left me out of many conversations at school. "I was...
Abstract Documented risk factors for suicide among alcohol-dependent patients are sensitive but insufficiently specific to effectively identify individuals who are prone to future suicide attempt. As a first step to assess factors not previously...
We are working closely with the Domestic Abuse and Homeless Shelters here in town. We would love to help them start a transitional child care at their sites to transition children back into day to day life that have experienced trauma. Does anyone...
Adrian Rogers, a reporter for the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, WA, did a great job in this story -- Taking on Trauma -- about how elementary schools in Spokane have integrated trauma-informed practices. Otis Orchards Elementary School, in the...
In the Winter/Spring 2013 publication of The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health, this article appeared: Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)Pseudoscientific Theory Used Against Survivors in CourtIs Rejected from the DSM-V Joan Meier, Professor of Clinical Law, George Washington University Law School In the last year, it was decided that Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and its offspring (Parental Alienation Disorder) will not be included in the...
This story from the Washington Post is heartbreaking. Having seen schools that have changed their approach to school discipline, I don't think that turning our schools into prisons, as evidenced in this story, is necessary. The small band of guerrilla...
"There has been a lot in the media lately about victim responsibility and the culture of violence in our community.... "I am also very troubled by the media coverage of this event. Why are we focusing on the victim and her responsibility in this?......
"Eugene King ran away from home at the age of 16, the start of a lifelong pattern of drug abuse, crime and incarceration.... "In retrospect, King said, he realizes he was using illicit drugs at least in part to self-medicate a variety of psychiatric...
"Can events like Red Fridays, Tickets for Troops and the yellow ribbon campaign reduce the chances of Canadian soldiers experiencing combat-related stress disorders? The authors of a new study from the University of Alberta think so...."...
"Gathering evidence from children about alleged sex abuse is problematic. Research shows that when interviewers are trained in a protocol that favours open-ended questions more cases lead to charges and more charges lead to prosecution...."...
Abstract Iraqi refugees face difficulties resettling in the US, which may be partially due to high rates of torture. This study determines the rates of torture experience, primary and secondary, among Iraqi refugees in the US; and the association to...