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[Darren Rollinson photo] With 22% of the general population having an ACE score of 3 or higher, Dr. Vincent Felitti has said that there aren't enough therapists for the millions of people who need help, nor can they all afford it. Here's an interesting story from NPR about how Harville Hendrix, author of "Getting the Love You Want" and several other self-help books, is trying to do something about that.  At a church in South Dallas, in one of the poorest parts of town, the room is...

[Prevalence of obesity in women 20 years or older, 2013] Since one of the consequences of childhood adversity can be obesity, it's interesting to read this report about how obesity is increasing world-wide.  We tend to think of obesity as a rich-country problem, but for several years now evidence has been building that the public-health hazard is assailing low- and middle-income countries as well, even as these same countries struggle with high rates of malnutrition . In perhaps the...

[Susannah Kay photo] ....a new study finds that the more he cares for his offspring, the more a father's brain looks and behaves like that of a mother engaged in the everyday care of a child. In fact, say the Israeli authors of the study, the very practice of caregiving, whether by a mom who is her child's primary caregiver, a dad who steps in to help or a gay father raising a child with no woman in the picture, activates a recognizable "parental caregiving' neural network." Their research...

A new study finds people with compulsion disorders such as substance abuse, binge eating and obsessive compulsive disorder have similar patterns of decision making and brain structures. Reporting their findings in the journal Molecular Psychiatry ,...

The Rochester-based Wilson Foundation has for more than 50 years dedicated itself to better understanding the plight of homeless families and the best ways to help them achieve residential stability. More recently, we partnered with the National...

As ACEsConnection has reported, the New York Times May 22 spotlighted Bessel van der Kolk and his idea that  to change the way we heal a traumatized mind, start with the body, (Dr. van der Kolk, center, in session, drawn by Matthew Woodson for...

Photo credit: U.S. Army,  Flickr A psychiatrist talks about the different elements of adjusting back to civilian life, and briefly raises the importance of unresolved adverse childhood experiences.  Maybe it is a cliche to say that someone...

Photo credit: John Picken Photography,  Flickr As May is celebrated as Mental Health Month this year, Minnesota is marking the 25th anniversary of the Comprehensive Children's Mental Health Act, one of the earliest and most comprehensive pieces...

Photo credit:  Jessica Murri For Boise State Public Radio Caitlin Lanier understands the healing process required for sexual assault survivors. She was sexually assaulted during her first year of college. Lanier didn’t have many options to...

Credit:  Chloe Cushman/The Guardian When he was 22, Chris Gethard thought every day about killing himself. He thought about it so often that eventually it didn’t even feel weird any more. Then, one day, he pulled his car over to the side of...

My Speech at Paladin's Class of 2014 Commencement Ceremony Congratulations, to all of you who have come so far, and made it to this evening, the celebration of your graduation, the Commencement of the Class of 2014. This past year, these past...

Photo credit:  Spencer Platt, Getty Images Though this story doesn't mention ACEs, it does beg the question of whether or not trauma or chronic stress has played a role in the shifting demographics of heroin use. Do you have thoughts on this?...