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February 2025

A new study confirms link between trauma and endometriosis – which should change how we diagnose and treat the disease (womensagenda.com.au)

Women’s Agenda By Lucia Osborne-Crowley February 2025 A new study has found that there could be a link between trauma and the development of endometriosis, and the study’s authors say it means we urgently need more trauma-informed care for those who suffer from the debilitating disease. While it has long been theorised that there is a connection between severe stress and endometriosis, a new study from Yale University shows a correlative link between endometriosis and both childhood...

Change is Teamwork: Team Accountability to Workplace Well-being

Teams have a strong role to play in promoting workplace well-being. Shared agreements and mutual accountability, plus practices such as active listening and mechanisms for feedback, accelerate the well-being of the entire team. Table of Contents Safety and Accountability go Hand-in-Hand Agreements, Not Rules Practices for Team Accountability to Workplace Well-being Self-Awareness Listening Boundaries Communication Feedback Rituals Environment Habits Avoiding the Trauma Triangle Change is...

Trauma Informed Schools Kenya-Supporting Teacher's Mental Health

Teachers are secondary care givers, where they too nurture and care give learners while at school. But this doesn't happen without a cost. Compassion fatigue, well known as cost of caring. When teachers absorb trauma from learners, without support, often times they will experience emotional burn out and fatigue, hence losing the ability to care and nurture. Compassion Fatigue. Compassion fatigue due to secondary (vicarious) trauma is inevitable in teaching as a profession. When forums are...

PACEs Research Corner — January Part 2, 2025

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!] Adolescents Chaudhary S, Hoffmann JA, Pulcini CD, et al. Youth Suicide and Preceding Mental Health Diagnosis. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jul 1;7(7):e2423996. PMID: 39078631 In this...

Could There Be a Biological Path to Adolescent Suicide? [psychiatrist.com]

Clinical relevance: Childhood trauma disrupts stress hormone regulation and immune function, increasing adolescent suicide risk. By Denis Storey, Psychiatrist.com, Image: Unsplash via Crowdstack , February 25, 2025 Adolescent suicide rates have been climbing since the pandemi c , and it persists as the leading cause of death among Americans between 5 and 24. Recent research points a finger at “externalizing behaviors” and exposure to violence . As part of that, firearms deaths have been...

Study: Childhood trauma and neighborhood disorder impact mental health of injured Black men [medicalexpress.com]

By Medical Express, Photo: Unsplash/CC0Public Domain , February 24, 2025 *Editor's Note: This article is a PDF download. A new Penn Nursing study published in the Journal of Urban Health reveals that both Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and perceived neighborhood disorder significantly impact the mental health of Black men in Philadelphia following serious traumatic injuries. The Penn Nursing study highlights the critical role of social and environmental factors in post-injury recovery.

A person-centered examination of adverse childhood experiences and associated distal health, mental health, and behavioral outcomes in the United Arab Emirates [bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com]

By Anthony Murphy, Iffat Elbarazi, Neal Horen, Toby Long, et al., BMC Psychiatry, Image: Unsplash from Crowdstack , February 25, 2025 Abstract Background An increasing body of evidence highlights the utility of examining adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) utilizing person-centered analytical approaches, particularly for understanding the organization and co-occurrence of ACEs, and their contributions to risk, vulnerability, and the development of intervention efforts. Methods In the first...

Racism and Mental Health: What Every Parent Should Know [psychologytoday.com]

Understanding the link between racial discrimination and youth mental health By Isha W.Metzger, Psychology Today, Image: Unsplash via Crowdstack , February 24, 2025 Growing up, I was always taught to stand tall in the face of adversity, but what happens when the adversity is rooted in your identity ? As a mother, clinical psychologist, and educator, I see how racial discrimination profoundly impacts the mental health of youth. My son is still too young to fully understand the intricacies of...

Flipping the Script on Universal Child Care [the74million.org]

Haspel: Child care is an essential need for families, not a handout. By Elliot Haspel, The74, Photo: screenshot from article , February 25, 2025 Consider two neighboring towns, Potato and Potahto. Both have collected $1,000 in taxes and their goal is to ensure that all residents end the harvest season with at least 10 of the tubers. Potato spends its money on fertilizing everyone’s soil and making sure they have good seeds and good tools, as well as hiring monitors to ensure the farmers are...

The Surviving Spirit Newsletter February 2025

The latest Surviving Spirit Newsletter - Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is out - It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20250225172606/ or this - https://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2025-02-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_February_2025.pdf The Surviving Spirit Newsletter February 2025 Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education &...

PACEs Research Corner — January Part 1, 2025

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!] Child abuse Ruch DA, Horowitz LM, Hughes JL, et al. Suicide in US Preteens Aged 8 to 12 Years, 2001 to 2022. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jul 1;7(7):e2424664. PMID: 39078634 “Study...

From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement [ssir.org]

A delegation of CHWs advocate for salaries, skills, and supplies in Liberia. (Photo courtesy of Community Health Impact Coalition) Health coalitions did the research, coordinated with donors, and secured strong government buy-in. Now, community health workers are finally getting the credit—and pay—they deserve. By Sheringham Odhiambo, Madeleine Ballard, Ben Pyne and Kathryn Harrison, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Photo: Community Health Impact Coalition , February 24, 2025 Ten years...

Parents' Mental Health Impacts Kids' Risk of ADHD, Anxiety [healthday.com]

By Dennis Thompson, HealthDay, Image: screenshot from article/Adobe Stock , February 24, 2025 A parent’s mental health appears to influence their kids’ chances of developing anxiety, ADHD and other behavioral disorders, a new study says. Children were more than four times as likely to develop severe ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) if their caregiver had poor or fair mental health, compared to kids of caregivers in excellent mental health, researchers found. Likewise, kids’...

Children with cognitive, emotional disabilities more likely to be suspended, expelled [healio.com]

By Sara Kellner, Healio, Image: screenshot from article , February 24, 2025 Children with emotional or cognitive disabilities were more likely to report being suspended or expelled from school compared with children with physical disabilities or no disabilities, according to findings in Academic Pediatrics. “Our study draws attention to the alarmingly large disparities for use of serious school discipline with youth who have disabilities vs. those who do not,” Christine James, PhD , LSW,...

Eating citrus may lower depression risk [news.harvard.edu]

Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind ‘orange a day’ finding By Saima Sidik, The Harvard Gazette, Image: screenshot from article , February 21, 2025 New findings add another dimension to “gut feelings.” Eating an orange a day may lower a person’s depression risk by 20 percent, according to a study led by Raaj Mehta , an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. That might be because citrus stimulates growth of...

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