Only in this century have science and society come to understand the mental and physical repercussions of a rough childhood.
But 18 years after publication of the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experiences study and multiple follow-up studies, few resources yet exist to help children contend with or avoid the troubling list of childhood adversity — sexual, verbal and physical abuse; neglect; poverty; community violence; and bullying, among others.
These exposures cumulatively scar a child’s brain and body for a lifetime.
And that’s where Bruce Rabin is stepping in.
The noted University of Pittsburgh and UPMC immunopathologist often referred to as “Dr. Stress” is redirecting his long-time voluntary mission of helping people manage stress to help reduce adversity in children’s lives, much of which occurs in their own homes.
Dr. Rabin, 75, said he will resign his professional positions on Jan. 3 to focus on projects he’s working to launch in the Wilkinsburg School District with the project already underway in a charter school, where he’s led the faculty in a stress-coping program that’s now being offered to students, individually or in groups, with plans to extend the program to parents.
[For more of this story, written by David Templeton, go to http://www.post-gazette.com/ne...stories/201610030135]
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