Mental health assessment and care coordination by a social worker eased anxiety and depression after hospitalization for heart disease, the MOSAIC trial showed. Mental health-related quality of life improvements were twice those achieved with usual...
...About 80% of the clients at Metro Community Provider Network have some behavioral or psychosocial component of their care. Metro Community didn't find zeroing in on their highest utilizers moved the needle on controlling costs. Instead, they...
The offspring of mice that suffered early-life stress show signs of the disturbance their parent experienced, researchers from the University of Zurich and their colleagues have found, pointing to a potential RNA-based mechanism by which trauma may be...
The numbers tell us two sobering facts about girls and juvenile justice. First, they indicate that the percentage of girls in the juvenile justice system has steadily increased over the decades, rising from 17 percent in 1980 to 29 percent in 2011....
As mentioned in the weekly newsletter, we'll be doing mini-profiles of ACEsConnection members. This week, we of the ACEsConnection team will go first, and we're taking different approaches to telling our stories. I’ve known ACEsConnection...
As mentioned in the weekly newsletter, we'll be doing mini-profiles of ACEsConnection members. We of the ACEsConnection team will go first, and we're taking different approaches to telling our stories. Mine's a Q-and-A. Q. What personal or...
I was fighting a rat for the remnants of a corn dog I'd salvaged from the trash. That's when I realized I'd crossed the final line I had drawn. I had told myself, as long as I don't shoot up, I'm OK. As long as I'm not homeless, I'm OK. But now I was...
Agreements are seen by social workers as a useful tool but can give a false sense of assurance Partnership agreements between social care authorities and parents have been in use for many years, but it is not possible to trace their origins as there...
Dr. Bruce Perry is a child psychiatrist and senior fellow at the ChildTrauma Academy in Houston and adjunct professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. His neuroscientific research has focused...
Parenthood is sometimes frustrating and overwhelming. While most parents do what’s best for their children, an increasing number of child abuse victims in northwest Ohio shows that for some, caring for kids is at times too much to handle....
Doctors are prescribing opioid painkillers to pregnant women in astonishing numbers, new research shows, even though risks to the developing fetus are largely unknown. Of 1.1 million pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid nationally, nearly 23 percent...
At the request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) will hold a two-day workshop that will feature expert...
The relationship had become intolerably abusive, and after a stinging phone call one night, it seemed there was only one way to end the pain. Enough wine and pills should do the job — and would have, except that paramedics barged through the...
Extreme and traumatic events can change a person -- and often, years later, even affect their children. Researchers have now unmasked a piece in the puzzle of how the inheritance of traumas may be mediated. The phenomenon has long been known in...