It had been a hard week at work. After a year in which a remarkable number of things had gone well, I suddenly found myself in a series of difficult, disappointing conversations I had not expected. Toward the end of an especially challenging...
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday admonished former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his repeated recent comments that "responsibility is on the black community" for reducing the necessity of police officers in their communities. "I think he...
Everyday events are easy to forget, but unpleasant ones can remain engraved in the brain. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences identifies a neural mechanism through which unpleasant experiences are...
If you want your child to tell the truth, it's best not to threaten to punish them if they lie. That's what researchers discovered through a simple experiment involving 372 children between the ages of 4 and 8. How the Experiment was Done The...
In October, Mark Lamster, architecture critic at The Dallas Morning News, issued an unusual call: Dallas, he said, should begin converting its many abandoned jails into hotels, schools and other facilities for reshaping the city. In his...
Teen and young adult drug use is a growing epidemic and the way we have thought about teen drug use and when to refer to treatment certainly needs to be rethought. The view from many professionals working in law enforcement, school systems, health...
About 10 to 20 percent of women suffer from new-onset depression during pregnancy or after giving birth. Untreated, the impact of such illness can be profound, ranging from substance abuse, poor prenatal care, and miscarriages to impaired infant...
“Am I going to go to jail for hitting you?” my 4-year-old son asked me the other night as I helped him get ready for bed. Earlier in the day he’d had a temper tantrum when I picked him up from school. On the teary walk to our...
Audie Cornish talks with Dr. Marva Robinson, a clinical psychologist who has been working with people in Ferguson, Mo., to help them recognize signs of psychological trauma and to deal with the trauma they've experienced. Video of Eric Garner's...
(This post can be found at http://blog.dc4k.org/archives/3305) Recently I was chatting online with a group of children’s ministers when someone brought up the subject of suicide in children. No one wants to think that children...
From the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University: Most commonly, the term resilience has come to mean an individual's ability to overcome adversity and continue his or her normal development. However, the RRC uses a more ecological...
Even having read about and talked with people about Neurofeedback Therapy for the last couple of years, I still really had no concept of what it was like. Yesterday, I had my very first treatment session of Neurofeedback Therapy...
Juvenile record sealing is an integral part of the juvenile justice system’s focus on rehabilitation. Having a juvenile record can limit a young person’s ability to apply for a job, college and various state licenses, including the license...
Not long ago I interviewed Dr. Todd Sorensen, the CEO of Regional West Medical Center, a 184-bed facility serving a large swath of rural western Nebraska. I've known Dr. Sorensen since junior high school, and we've kept in touch over the years to...
Judith Scott was an artist based in Oakland, Calif., who made abstract works from fiber and found objects. Some of them are small and slender, like a hunter-gatherer’s quiver. Some are large enough to cradle in both arms. Some you would...