Sue Mackey Andrews will talk to anyone about adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs: Pediatricians. Early childcare workers. Parent advocacy groups. And those on the front lines who work with kids, like the longtime school bus driver from rural Maine,...
Bernard Mayes, a multifaceted Anglican priest who started the first suicide hotline in the United States and a decade later became the founding chairman of National Public Radio, died on Oct. 23 in San Francisco. He was 85. Matthew A. Chayt, a...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is now the most prevalent psychiatric illness of young people in America, affecting 11 percent of them at some point between the ages of 4 and 17. The rates of both diagnosis and treatment have increased...
To the Editor: Re “ Toward Better Teachers ” (column, Oct. 29): Frank Bruni, in reflecting on a forthcoming book by a former New York City schools chancellor, Joel Klein, about his tenure leading the country’s largest public...
A college freshman walked to a hospital emergency room at midnight and said she feared that she was going to harm herself. Twelve hours later, after it was determined that she was no longer in danger, she decided to call her parents — but...
Google’s philanthropic arm will give $3 million to pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris ’ Bayview clinic, which has earned international acclaim for its work linking the physical ailments of low-income children to their traumatic...
The incarceration rate in the United States is by far the highest in the world (see Trauma Matters , Fall 2013). According to a recent report by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (2014), “with less than 5% of the...
The recently published Treatment Improvement Protocol 57, “Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services” (SAMHSA, 2014), defines trauma-informed care as “a strengths-based delivery approach ‘that is grounded in an...
There has been a lot of talk recently about marijuana legalization — increasing tax revenue for states, getting nonviolent offenders out of the prison system, protecting personal liberty, possible health benefits for those with severe...
Psychoeducational family intervention (PFI) improves social functioning in patients with bipolar I disorder and reduces burden among close relatives, Italian study data show. If the findings are replicated in other studies, “psychoeducation...
A Liberian-American woman filmed a now-viral video to challenge xenophobic attitudes in light of Ebola’s proliferation. With the slogan “I am a Liberian, not a virus,” Shoana Solomon sheds light on the recent stigmatization of...
Ferguson, Missouri, was a powder-keg waiting for a match long before August 9 and Michael Brown’s fateful encounter with Police Officer Darren Wilson. It is one of many predominantly black communities across the United States plagued...
Scottish actor Alan Cumming has won accolades for his performances, including current stints as a manipulative Chicago political operative on TV's “The Good Wife” and a revival of his Tony-winning role in the Broadway musical...
There has been much written and spoken about domestic violence and child abuse recently due to incidents involving NFL players. It’s unfortunate that it takes a sensationalized incident to bring into view a chronic societal problem; but,...
Charles Barkley recently explained why "we as black people are never going to be successful." His reasoning is painful: "We as black people are never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people....