Arguments between parents may damage their relationships with their children, a new study indicates. Parents in more than 200 families were asked to make daily diary entries for 15 days. At the end of each day, mothers and fathers rated the quality of...
Let’s start with what we don’t know: the precise circumstances under which a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., shot dead an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. But here’s what evidence does strongly suggest: Young black...
A heroin crisis gripping communities across the country deepened in New York last year, with more people in the city dying in overdoses from the drug than in any year since 2003. In all, 420 people fatally overdosed on heroin in 2013 out of a...
She had just turned 13 when she ran away from home and got into a scuffle with the police officer who found her. Charged with assault, the teen was housed in a youth center operated by the District’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services....
Suddenly the nation is talking about black equality. It took Molotov cocktails in Ferguson, Mo., to forcefully penetrate our slumbering racial consciousness. Ferguson has become a metaphor for race relations in the 21st century; a signifier for the...
As part of the TARGET project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, researchers at Freie Universität Berlin conducted a systematic literature search of all the available studies dealing with school shootings. The aim of...
Depression may be better predicted and understood now that University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have discovered that young adults who previously experienced the mental illness have hyper-connected emotional and cognitive networks in the...
In five years, Jan Titsworth sees more pedestrians on the street in Fort Worth. She envisions restaurants will offer more healthy options and employers will make sure their stairwells are properly lit and the vending machines have fewer chips and...
Federal authorities have named recipients of $3 million in grants to address violence against women in rural and tribal communities in the oil patch of North Dakota and Montana. The money from the Office on Violence Against Women will be used to help...
Hoping to keep more people with mental illness out of jails and emergency rooms, county health officials opened a mental health urgent care center Wednesday in South Los Angeles. The goal of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Mental Health Urgent Care Center...
This year, as kids head back to class in the Newtown Public School District, their teachers will be better equipped to respond to their mental health needs. In the aftermath of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which put mental health...
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." -- Aristotle Back to school has a different meaning for parents with children who have learning differences or behavioral challenges. For this group of parents, the usual to-do...
RWJF has issued a new brief that highlights the impact of early experiences on life-long health. In their words the researchers "were struck by compelling arguments from experts who noted that to best serve children, we must support struggling...
"There should be other options for mentally ill offenders that don’t include jail, says Suzanna Gee, associate managing attorney with Disability Rights California. The law that governs competency proceedings allows for certain felony ISTs—...
Solitary confinement causes emotional and psychiatric harm, yet strong personality, emotional control and high cognition, can be protective factors. By subjecting the developing adolescent brain to isolation, we neglect our legal responsibility to...