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By World Health Organization (photo by WHO/Malin Bring) The findings of a new study on the life-course health consequences and associated annual costs of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) show that preventable trauma in childhood costs north America and the European Region US$ 1.3 trillion a year. The article, published in the Lancet and co-authored by Dinesh Sethi and Jonathon Passmore, Programme Manager, Violence and Injury Prevention, WHO/Europe, looks at the legacy of ACEs and their...

The elementary school principal routinely broke into tears. At Wednesday afternoon meetings of the Creating Trauma Sensitive Arizona Schools work group, a committee of the Arizona ACE Consortium , the leader of a high-need, inner-city K-5 school frequently wept as she talked about the trauma her students carried into the classroom and the ways it percolated throughout her campus: in lagging test scores, behavior problems, even teacher retention. The other committee members became her...

Dr. Carrie Jurney is on the board of an online organization that works to prevent suicides. It's called Not One More Vet . This isn't a mental health support group for veterans — it's for veterinarians. Veterinarians are killing themselves in alarming numbers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found male vets are 2.1 times as likely and female vets 3.5 times as likely to die by suicide compared with the general population. The much higher rate for women is especially concerning...

By Woodland Daily Democrat, September 7, 2019 Four Yolo County residents graduated from the Steps to Success diversion program recently. The well-attended ceremony on Aug. 28 in Woodland honored Jose Maldanado, Jose Mariscal, Dennis Cortopassi and Javier Padilla. “S22, as it it is called, reported Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven, is a voluntary diversion program that uses restorative justice as well as trauma-informed care principles and practices to provide treatment and wrap-around...

By Adrian O' Hanlon III, McAlester News-Capitol, September 7, 2019 Suicide is rarely discussed, despite being one of the leading causes of death. Stats from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show nearly 45,000 Americans died by suicide in 2016; suicide rates increased by 30% from 1999 to 2016; and 54% of people who died by suicide did not have a known mental health condition. Stacy Williams, the southeast Oklahoma director of children’s services for CREOKS Behavioral Health...

By Erin Arvedlund, The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 7, 2019 There was a shooting in Philadelphia every six hours in 2018. Jim MacMillan contends that didn’t have to be. “We know how to stop gun violence,” MacMillan, founder of IBGVR.org, the Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting, said Saturday at a conference designed to spread the word on what he and others contend are effective deterrents. Community activists; young people from the inner city; mothers of children killed by guns;...

MOVING TOWARDS HEALING-CENTERED ENGAGEMENT: WHAT TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE CAN TEACH US ABOUT BURNOUT AND HEALING IN THE WORKPLACE Jessica Barnhill, MD; Joslyn W. Fisher, MD, MPH, FACP; Megan R. Gerber, MD, MPH; Amy Weil, MD, FACP https://www.sgim.org/File%20Library/SGIM/Resource%20Library/Forum/2019/SGIM-Sept-8.pdf

What is the most important opinion you will ever make? Your opinion of yourself because this impacts everything you think, feel, eat or hide. Now learn an exact technique for improving your self-confidence from Dt. Brian Alman: https://vimeo.com/344249403

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The link between poor mental health and nutritional deficiencies has long been recognized by nutritionists working in the complementary health sector. However, psychiatrists are only now becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of using nutritional approaches to mental health.

By Jessica A. Gold , M.D., M.S., Carol A. Bernstein , M.D., Kali D. Cyrus , M.D., M.P.H., et al., The American Journal of Psychiatry, September 1, 2019 According to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on the culture of sexual harassment in academic institutions, sexual harassment is extremely common across scientific fields, with the highest prevalence in medicine. These high rates are pervasive across sites and disciplines, including psychiatry. Sexual...

By Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, September 5, 2019 Women who experienced six or more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in life had a twofold greater risk of developing ovarian cancer compared with women who never had any PTSD symptoms, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Moffitt Cancer Center. The findings indicate that having higher levels of PTSD symptoms, such as being easily startled by...