A little-known Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision has the potential to improve the health of young adults who often have significant health care needs and are more likely to be uninsured than their peers: former foster youth. But a new report finds...
Psychologist Stephanie Covington believes understanding trauma can help staff appreciate that women in jail can be victims too It's a weekday morning, and in a packed lecture theatre in central London, author and consultant Stephanie Covington is...
Using the Social Enterprise Intervention and Individual Placement and Support Models to Improve Employment and Clinical Outcomes of Homeless Youth With Mental Illness ” (abstract). Kristin M. Ferguson. Social Work in Mental Health, Vol. 11, No....
Two Simon Fraser University psychologists have made a brain-related discovery that could revolutionize doctors' perception and treatment of attention-deficit disorders. This discovery opens up the possibility that environmental and/or genetic factors...
Happiness derived from tasks that help others, like raising money for a charity, could be better for teen mental health than happiness derived from selfish activities, like eating chocolate or listening to music, according to research by Adriana...
For years, President Obama has been a vocal booster of early childhood education. In his past two State of the Union addresses, he has called on Congress to help fund preschool for every child in the country. "Research shows that one of the best...
Under a bill pending in Congress, states would be forbidden to lock up juveniles who violate a court order by committing a status offense. States would be forbidden to lock up juveniles who violate a court order by committing a status offense like...
A simple and effective emotion-regulation strategy that has neurologically and behaviorally been proven to lessen the emotional impact of personal negative memories, researchers have shown. "Sometimes we dwell on how sad, embarrassed, or hurt we felt...
Canada’s prison watchdog has launched an investigation into the prescribing practices in federal prisons, after it was revealed that more than 60 per cent of female inmates across the country are receiving psychiatric medication. A joint...
EASTER is a time of new beginnings. It is the answer, the pastor Rick Warren remarks, to loss and despair. A few weeks ago, one year after his son took his life while struggling with depression, Mr. Warren, the founding pastor of Saddleback Church,...
It's not just kids who are overdoing screen time. Parents are often just as guilty of spending too much time checking smartphones and e-mail — and the consequences for their children can be troubling. Dr. Jenny Radesky is a pediatrician...
Research has long shown that locking up young people puts them at greater risk of dropping out of school, joining the unemployment line and becoming permanently entangled in the criminal justice system. States and municipalities have thus been sending...
Slightly more than half (51.8 percent) of the 8.6 million American adults who had serious thoughts of suicide in the past year did not receive mental health services according to a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...
Does it all go back to childhood or not? Problems with universal generalizations aside, do we get to blame everything on our childhoods? I don’t know about that, but apparently the connection between early childhood trauma and later...