Stress may partly explain why young and middle-aged women have a worse recovery after heart attack, according to new research published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Although 35,000 women under age 65 experience heart...
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender adolescents who come out at school have higher self-esteem and lower levels of depression as young adults, compared to LGBT youth who don't disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity at school,...
While estimating the homeless population is difficult, about 1.3 million students in the U.S. were homeless at the start of the 2012-2013 school year. Children not enrolled in school, although their numbers are less easily measured, push the...
In a new challenge to police practices in Ferguson, Mo., a group of civil rights lawyers is suing the city over the way people are jailed when they fail to pay fines for traffic tickets and other minor offenses. The lawsuit, filed Sunday night...
When I was a kid, I liked this poem by Jean Little from her collection, Hey World, Here I Am!: Our History teacher says, "Be proud you're Canadians." My father says, "You can be proud you're Jewish." My mother says, "Stand up straight, Kate. Be...
According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, childhood experiences can have a tremendous effect in various ways throughout a person’s life. Three Types of ACEs RWJF reports that there are three types of ACEs, or adverse childhood...
The last people to leave Riverside Church at midnight were always the homeless men and women who sat for hours on wooden pews in the hallway to escape the frigid air. They were also the first to return at 6 a.m. when the doors reopened. So the...
From the February bulletin of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network: In the first article: "Trauma Tre atment in Young Children with Developmental Disabilities: Applications of the Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Model to the Cases of...
Two of my friends have killed themselves recently and I want badly to know how to help others deal with suicidal thoughts and depression with more than psychotropic medications. When I wrote INVISIBLE CHILDREN in 2005 , a...
In stressful family circumstances, parenthood sometimes take a bigger toll on fathers' mental health. Scholars at Brigham Young University and Princeton conducted research that gives a better look at how various types of parents...
College-educated and gainfully employed 36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi should be a sought-after friend or date, planning nights on the town and faraway resort vacations. But she works in Japan, a nation where workaholic habits die hard. Often...
You’ve heard the sex trafficking story before. A woman from a foreign country is brought to live in the US in a dirty apartment and forced to have sex with people until the police step in, she escapes or she dies. This is just one example...
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says the company is ready to take a stand against trolls, and he's personally leading the campaign to boot abusers off the social media platform. San Francisco-based Twitter has come under fire for its platform's continued...
On a recent Sunday afternoon in the tightly packed slum of Narela at the edge of Delhi, a group of children sat on a bright green rug amid broken tiles, bricks and bits of wood, engrossed in an animated discussion about their neighborhood. Hens...
It’s no secret that the years since the Great Recession have been hard on American workers. Though unemployment has finally dipped below six per cent, real wages for most have barely budged since 2007. Indeed, the whole century so far has...