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By Kevin Sherin, American College of Preventive Medicine, May 7, 2020 There is a growing dialog about COVID-19 and its impacts on childhood adversity (ACEs), chronic stress, and mental health across the lifespan. The fear and social isolation associated with COVID-19 commonly exacerbates existing chronic stresses. Reports are surfacing of increased mental health problems, anxiety, partner violence, depression, suicidality, child abuse, opioid use disorder, other substance abuse, drug...

When I look at Victoria through a clearer lens, there are many clues—her anxiety, troubled marriage and family life, avoidance of physically intrusive examina- tions. I realize that I hardly know her at all. I focus on her health issues, and despite many stumbles, we have a nice rapport. I accept whatever she is willing to share about her tumultuous home life, but I do not ask how it all came to be so. Now I float with her in a reservoir of pain and shame.

Newswise — (New York, NY – April 30, 2020 ) -- Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), one of New York’s largest integrated health systems, announced today the launch of the Mount Sinai Center for Stress, Resilience and Personal Growth, a first-of-its-kind initiative in North America that is designed to address the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and lives of frontline health care providers at Mount Sinai and will serve as a model for institutions and communities around the...

Next month’s TIHCER presentation series will feature Annie Lewis O’Connor, Eve Rittenberg, and Nomi Levy-Carrick. They will be presenting: “ Trauma Inquiry and Impact of COVID-19 on Trauma Informed Care Initiatives ”. Annie Lewis-O’Connor, PhD, NP-BC, MPH, FAAN a oconnor@bwh.harvard.edu Senior Nurse Scientist, Founder & Director of the C.A.R.E Clinic, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Instructor- Harvard Medical School Dr. Annie Lewis-O’Connor is a Board Certified Pediatric and Women’s...

Please join in to our next scheduled TIHCER Zoom meeting - Monday, April 27 th at 3pm Central. Our guest speaker will be Courtney Barry, PsyD (meeting will be recorded and available on our ACEs Connection Community site for those not able to join live) Dr. Barry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, with a specialization in Health Psychology. She completed...

From: Zgierska, Aleksandra < azgierska@pennstatehealth.psu.edu > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 9:55 AM Cc: Lennon, Robert < rlennon@pennstatehealth.psu.edu > Subject: World-wide COVID experiences survey Dear Friends and Colleagues We at Penn State have launched a world-wide survey, now translated into 20 languages to study the effective (vs ineffective) ways of communicating the the COVID pandemic related messages. This survey has been already completed by over 10,000 people...

The authors are pleased to announce the Trauma and Resilience Competencies for Nursing Education. These competencies serve as a guideline of minimal expectations and reflect essential knowledge, skills and behaviors for three levels of nursing education: 1) undergraduate, 2) graduate, and 3) psychiatric nurse practitioner programs. The Trauma and Resilience Competencies, developed in 2018 at the Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies at Fairfield University in Connecticut by an Expert...

By Tait Shanafelt, Jonathan Ripp, Mickey Trockel, JAMA, April 7, 2020 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become one of the central health crises of a generation. The pandemic has affected people of all nations, continents, races, and socioeconomic groups. The responses required, such as quarantining of entire communities, closing of schools, social isolation, and shelter-in-place orders, have abruptly changed daily life. Health care professionals of all types are caring for...

By Brian R. Stork, Nicholas John Akselberg, Yongmei Qin, and David C. Miller, The Permanente Journal, January 24, 2020 ABSTRACT Introduction : The prevalence of childhood trauma, as measured by the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study questionnaire, has been studied in a wide variety of community settings. However, little is known about physicians’ familiarity with and use of the ACE questionnaire or the prevalence of childhood trauma in the physician community. Objective: To survey a...

TRAUMA-INFORMED IN THE AGE OF CORONAVIRUS A virtual discussion featuring Alice Forrester, PhD, CEO of Clifford Beers from RESILIENCE, Jim Sporleder, Trauma Informed Consultant and former Principal of Lincoln High School shown in PAPER TIGERS, and James Redford, Director of both RESILIENCE & PAPER TIGERS. During this time of social isolation, KPJR Films is reaching out to share our documentary films and trauma-informed tools with communities nationwide. KPJR Films will launch KPJR...

Our TIHCER March Zoom meeting will feature Dr. Megan Gerber presenting "Is SoMe for me? Academic Use of Twitter" Megan ("Meegan") Gerber is a general internist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the BU School of Medicine. She serves as Medical Director of Women's Health at VA Boston where she is also the fellowship director and as a Senior Consultant, Comprehensive Health, Women's Health Services, VHA (VA Central Office). Megan's academic focus has been on improving outcomes and care for...

By Elizabeth Hlavinka, MedPage Today, February 4, 2020 Female physicians were more likely to die by suicide than women in the general population in recent decades, but the same trend was not observed among male doctors, according to a meta-analysis of nine British and U.S. studies. Compared with the general population, female physicians had a significantly higher suicide mortality ratio (SMR) from the 1980s to date (1.46, 95% CI 1.02-1.91), reported Dante Duarte, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical...