Keauna Wise knows death could come at any moment. So she waits with knots in her stomach and tears in her eyes. She’s often breathless, with anxiety that climbs from the bottom of her feet up into her gut. Death comes often in her neighborhood...
Hassan al-Zeyada has spent decades counseling fellow residents of the Gaza Strip who suffer from psychological trauma. Now, as he prepares to aid his neighbors after a new round of combat and carnage, he has a challenging new patient: himself. An...
Earlier this month, a mother in North Augusta, S.C., was arrested after authorities learned that she had dropped her 9-year-old daughter off at a nearby park while she worked her shift at a McDonald’s restaurant. That news, along with a flurry...
In response to the media's coverage of crime in their neighborhood, a group of students wrote an op-ed for The Chicago Tribune. NPR's Scott Simon talks with two of those students and their teacher. [This interview can be found at http://www.npr.org/2014/08/02/...dia-you-dont-know-us ] [The original op-ed can be found at http://www.chicagotribune.com/...-20140725-story.html ]
The tiny addition of a chemical mark atop a gene that is well known for its involvement in clinical depression and posttraumatic stress disorder can affect the way a person's brain responds to threats, according to a new study by Duke University...
She likes pink, will dance to Blurred Lines, occasionally fakes an orgasm… and worries that the sisterhood would not approve. America's brightest new essayist talks about the dark side of her fierce, funny writing. Twenty years ago, when...
Remember all that talk about how the United States is becoming a post-racial society? New research throws cold water on the concept, suggesting that, at least on an unconscious level, Americans retain their belief in a race-based hierarchy. In a...
California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has introduced new policies for the use of force against mentally ill prisoners that are among the most detailed in the nation. The changes, which were introduced on Friday, were set in...
Kristie Dotson knows what it’s like to have to do her homework on the backs of cars because she doesn’t have a home to go to after school’s out. “I too have gone homeless,” Dotson said of her youth in South Central Los...
In light of our growing awareness of the link between the game and traumatic brain injury, some Americans have started to rethink the morality of watching football. A group of players’ families recently sued the NFL for concealing the dangers of...
Older adults contemplating suicide do not cite depression as the primary reason, according to research presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. More often, they blame their struggles with illness,...
Child Trends has added to the research on ACEs with two new publications and a blog. http://www.childtrends.org/glass-half-full-the-bright-side-of-aces-research/ Please let us know what you think!
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a model of health care that emphasizes personal relationships, team delivery of care, coordination across specialties and care settings, quality and safety improvement, and open access. Medicare expenditures...
On July 31, 2014, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) released the report of the National Summit on Law Enforcement Leadership in Juvenile Justice, which the IACP convened with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur...
The Adverse Childhood Experience Study demonstrates how susceptibility to alcoholism and drug abuse rises in near-lockstep with one’s burden of early hardships. A person with an ACE Score of six or more may suffer a two-decade loss of...