"To do their job and to stay alive, troops need to be in shape. They need have the right equipment. And they also need to be psychologically sound. The problem is that soldiers aren’t traditionally very forthcoming when it comes to talking about...
"Eleven years ago, the folks at the Pima County Juvenile Court Center recognized the need to provide extra help and accountability to drug-addicted parents accused of abusing and neglecting their children. They started up Family Drug Court, which...
"The seventh network meeting of the European health ministry focal persons on violence and injury prevention will take place in Antalya, Turkey on 17-18 October 2012 to comprehensively discuss the implementation of policy developments for the...
"One of the most important protective factors against teens engaging in self injury was parent connectedness, and, for females, connections with other prosocial adults also were associated with reduced likelihood of engaging in self injury,"...
We are so excited that Illinois will be conducting ACEs statewide! This was an effort that brought many policy makers, researchers, advocates and communities together to advocate for this data..we will share our story soon.
"Studies among adults show an association between abuse and Body Mass Index (BMI) status. When an aberrant BMI status as a consequence of abuse is already prevalent in adolescence, early detection and treatment of abuse might prevent these adolescents...
One of the most serious problems facing schools today is that of bullying. A recent report by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) suggested that nearly a fifth of the respondents had been bullied in school in the preceding year. This might mean that...
"A new study led by researchers from the UCLA School of Nursing has found that nursing intervention can significantly decrease substance abuse among homeless youth. Published in the current issue of the American Journal on Addictions, the research...
Mentions of the ACE Study – the CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experiences Study -- have shown up in the New York Times , This American Life , and Salon.com recently. In the last year, it’s become a buzzword in...
"Re “ The Psych Approach ” (column, Sept. 28): Thanks to David Brooks for calling attention to the effect that trauma can have on children. Understanding that adverse childhood experiences can lead to a cascade of social, cognitive and...
"Preventing violence must involve the opposite: making sure people feel safe, cared about, and connected, while ensuring they have a healthy and realistic sense of self-esteem and self-worth....Many environmental factors can contribute to violence....
"MICAH House is the first shelter in the metro area to use TIC to help its guests return to normal situations, she said. In the year-and-a-half since this program has been implemented, disturbances between staff and the guests have decreased...
"The proportion of Americans who are severely obese—those people 100 pounds or more overweight—continues to increase rapidly and much faster than those with moderate obesity, but the rate of growth has slowed, according to a new RAND...
"A new Yale School of Medicine study shows that cases of serious physical abuse in children, such as head injuries, burns, and fractures, increased slightly by about 5% in the last 12 years. This is in sharp contrast to data from child protective...
I typically ignore national awareness initiatives saddled to particular months. There are simply too many of them. For example, October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month; Crime Prevention Month; Health Literacy Month; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,...