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By Lynn Davies, The Psychologist, August 21, 2019 Resilience means the capacity to deal with threat. But in terms of radicalisation, this initially involves recognition of something as a threat, as something harmful. Instead, radicalisers will present something as an opportunity – to be a hero, to contribute to a mission, to have adventure, to join a new family. The first task in education is the fostering of recognition, including awareness of how extremism is a threat to society as well as...

By Miriam Jordan, The New York Times, August 20, 2019 Nearly 35 years ago, long before the current mass influx of Central American families making their way to America’s southern border, a different and more brutal migrant crisis was unfolding. In El Salvador, government death squads were stalking suspected insurgents. Farmers, human rights activists and even priests were being caught in the crossfire. The widening civil war would leave more than 75,000 people dead, and send tens of...

By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, August 20, 2019 This CFP will support research projects to build an understanding of the range of methods applied in innovative and effective community base-building that result in changes to community-level social, economic, and physical conditions that we know influence health and equity. We are seeking to fund research projects designed to retrospectively examine various methods resulting in innovative and effective community base-building. Base-building...

By A. Hosack, K. Hecht & P. Berman How can I be so selfish? I hate dreams. I hate myself. Claire is in Dr. Berman’s office. This was supposed to be a family meeting with Davy. However, at the last moment, Claire had called in and asked for a private appointment. She had her own disturbing week of dreams. She needed to do talk with Dr. Berman before she made some terrible mistake. She had already made so many of those. “Claire, you sounded so distressed on the phone, what happened?” Dr.

By Boston University School of Medicine, EurekAlert!, August, 21, 2019 Lewina Lee, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and clinical research psychologist at the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston, has received a five-year, $3.5 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Aging to establish the Boston Early Adversity and Mortality Study (BEAMS). Lee, along with co-principal investigator Daniel Mroczek,...

By Camille Von Kaenel, Oroville Mercury-Register, August 21, 2019 A network of volunteer trauma therapists is winding down its intervention in Butte County after working with more than 500 Camp Fire survivors and training sixty local therapists to reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The Northern California Trauma Recovery Network, a group housed under the umbrella of the Humanitarian Assistance Program, deployed around 50 therapists from all over the region who are specialized...

By Rick Murdock, The Detroit News, August 18, 2019 As we continue to connect the dots regarding gun violence, bringing the lens of adverse childhood experiences into play creates a meaningful context for public discussion. What brings this relationship to mind are the studies funded by the National Institute of Justice, highlighted recently by the Los Angeles Times on Aug. 4, 2019. The studies cited relate to a data-base going back to 1966 of every mass shooter who killed four or more people...

By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, August 20, 2019 The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support action-oriented research that advances health equity, builds the knowledge base, and informs policymaking to increase access to nutrition supports and reduce nutrition disparities. (RWJF is supporting research on the two other policy areas addressed in the research agenda—access to income supports and ECE—through separate calls for proposals.) Evidence generated through funded projects...

I was honored to be a guest on the podcast, Physician's Guide to Doctoring and enjoyed my interview with Dr. Bradley Block who writes ' we start out defining trauma and then get introduced to trauma-informed care. Interfacing with the medical system and physicians can be traumatizing and triggering, so we discussed ways to minimize that, and why it actually isn’t important to identify who needs trauma informed care. We should be taking a “universal precautions” like approach. She teaches us...

And so it is… I dove head first into advocacy and organizing when I was 18. As a formerly homeless youth , the only thing that kept my head on straight and out of trouble was getting involved and supporting the community. I’ve been blessed to be able to work across the world ever since with amazing people doing radical work. Fast forward some years and while I still have passion and drive for organizing work, I am much more aware and selective in who I deal with. I would be a liar if I said...