Today I am thankful. Today I am thankful for the kindness of strangers. Today I am thankful for a community that comes together when someone is hurt, or hurting. Today I am thankful for emergency responders, police, paramedics, and all of those...
This article examine what we do to reduce stress and what is actually effective at reducing stress. Standing in the middle of a swarm of bees might not be your idea of stress relief, but it works for Ray Von Culin. He's a beekeeper in...
A look at institutionalized of sexual violence: Last week, a young man from a remote village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand was accused of sexually assaulting a married woman. To punish him, the village leader reportedly ordered the rape of...
Current trends at New York City's island jail indicate that not only are mentally ill prisoners not receiving the treatment they need, but they are also being further traumatized. After being arrested on a misdemeanor charge following a family dispute...
This article expands upon our understanding of the relationship between stress and weight-gain. Why you shouldn't reward yourself with a donut after a long day You might think that on a high-intensity stressful day would cause you to burn more...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons An online publication in the Journal of American Medical Association Pediatrics estimated one in eight American children — roughly 12 percent — experience maltreatment before the age of 18. According...
Credit: Kate McLaughlin, University of Washington "The area of the brain that plays a primary role in emotional learning and the acquisition of fear – the amygdala – may hold the key to who is most vulnerable to post-traumatic stress...
In the beginning… Every religious philosophy has a story about origins and beginnings. In Eastern religions that hold to reincarnation, the cycle of birth-death-rebirth seems to stretch on to eternity in either direction. The key to...
Riverside County wants to start over at a place where many a wayward youth started over. County officials plan to spend up to $32.9 million – $24.69 million coming from Sacramento – to tear down and rebuild the Van Horn Youth Treatment and...
French economist Thomas Piketty sparked a global debate on inequality by arguing that the wealthy pull ahead by reaping disparate rewards from financial capital. He may be missing the human half of the story. When defining capital, Piketty...
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has shown that chronic stress of poverty, neglect and physical abuse in early life may shrink the parts of a child’s developing brain responsible for memory, learning and processing emotion....
Research shows that when a combat veteran with PTSD returns home, it can have consequences on a child's personality Mark Trepanier spends likes to spend time with the chickens he keeps in the back yard. “It’s a barometer for my stress...
"Children with developmental disabilities are at higher risk for abuse and neglect from parents than children developing at a typical rate. So far, there was little evidence of specific parental behaviors that were associated with the risk, but a SLU...
"L ow-income mothers and their first-born children who received home visits from nurses were less likely to die from preventable causes during a two-decade period studied by a University of Colorado School of Medicine professor, according to a report...
Do many health and human service workers have adverse childhood experiences (ACEs ) in their background? How does that affect their work? Those questions arose after the Sonoma County (CA) Department of Health Services hosted several presentations...