As a society, we don't talk much about emotions. Conversations tend to focus more on what we're doing or what we're thinking. In fact, most people find it easier to start sentences with, "I think..." instead of "I feel..." simply because it...
From Abstract: Parent education has a positive impact on children, parents, families, and the community. CHILDREN AT RISK and Bracewell & Giuliani LLP conducted a policy scan of state statutes regarding parent education. Full article may be downloaded from the open access journal, Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk Nancy Correa, Bethanie Van Horne, Christopher Greeley, & Angelo Giardino. A National Survey of Parent Support...
More and more people from across different sectors are screening people for ACEs . They’re also educating them about ACEs at the same time. I’m working on a couple of stories — one is about home visiting programs in Washington...
In my first "My ACES and Me" blog post published one month ago, [Feb 18, 2015] I invited you all along with me on a brief tour of the 7 (or 6, or 8?) adverse childhood experience categories that make up my ACES score. At the time of that writing, I had fully expected to continue that story line in chronological fashion, sharing the first, initial consequences in my life as I crossed the ACES time boundary of 21 years old and beyond. Perhaps I believed that further...
It follows a review of services by a government taskforce which has found that too many young people are not getting the help they need. Growing numbers are also presenting with increasingly complex and severe problems, it says. In response,...
Joe Sifer was a moody, agitated and sometimes angry young employee at Booz Allen Hamilton in 1996. He suffered at work. He was told he had potential but he needed help. Now a senior vice president at that same strategy and technology firm,...
People don't talk about psychiatrists the way they talk about neurologists, dentists or vets. In fact, there are those who call psychiatry voodoo or pseudoscience; and, to be fair, the specialty does have a history of claims and practices that...
It is the small detail as much as the horrific event that stands out starkly in a governor-appointed panel’s final proposals for preventing another massacre like the one that took the lives of 20 children and six school workers in...
EvaluACTION is designed for people interested in learning about program evaluation and how to apply it to their work. Evaluation is a process, one dependent on what you’re currently doing and on the direction in which you’d like go....
The above chart portrays the indicator trends of ACEs and health behaviors in the United Way of East Central Iowa Service Area which includes Iowa, Benton, Cedar, Jones, and Linn Counties.
With the population growing and most of it happening in cities, these Canadian journalists wanted to take a closer look at whether our sprawling modern villages are up to the task of housing more humans. Over half of the world lives in urban...
In 1990 The New York Times published a front-page article by Lawrence Altman, a reporter with a medical degree, announcing that scientists had discovered “a link between alcoholism and a specific gene.” That was merely one in a...
Daniel Rosen, a senior State Department official arrested last month for soliciting sex online with a minor, was reportedly arrested again Sunday night in Washington, D.C., and charged with an earlier crime of voyeurism after police searched...
Researchers have built a new computational tool that identifies 800 different ways people are at increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), permitting for the first time a personalized prediction guide. Results from the study out...
Hollywood has given movie-goers many classic portrayals of grumpy old men—American Movie Classics even maintains a list of the top fifteen film curmudgeons. But new research suggests that getting older doesn't imply becoming cynical and...