Blond and Midwesterner Cheerful, Kathryn Edin could be a cruise director, except that instead of showing off the lido deck, she's pointing out where the sex traffickers live off a run-down strip of East Camden, New Jersey. Her blue eyes...
Teens experience stress in a way that is similar to adults, according to a new survey by the American Psychological Association (APA). In fact, teens reported a higher stress level than did adults. The online survey in February was conducted by Harris...
NEW ORLEANS — From 2010 to 2012, 178 women in Louisiana died due to domestic violence Louisiana ranks among the top five states with the highest number of domestic violence cases. The most recent victim was Barbara Baker, of Houma. She...
Common sense suggests that the rate of school suspensions go up as children grow older. This belief is fueled by media images of middle school bullies and adolescent thugs. So a recent Department of Education report on this topic surprised a lot of...
Survivors of domestic violence who are living separately from an abusive spouse will now be able to claim tax credits to help them afford an Obamacare plan, thanks to new rules being developed by the federal government. Before the change,...
There’s that stereotype of a child abuser as the rage-filled man in a stained undershirt with a sixth beer in one hand and the other clenched into a fist ready to smack his kid against the wall and teach him a lesson. He’s part of the...
Made In America: Bloods and Crips Free to watch on Netflix, this doc is a great review (or introduction) to this ongoing gang rivalry that has taken so many lives. It also gives a brief history of the segregation of black people and culture in L.A. as...
What you can’t see, can hurt you. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and brain science, trauma and attachment specialists are calling for serious treatment of developmental trauma. Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) was identified by Dr. van der...
A new report released by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, examining the disciplinary practices of the country’s 97,000 public schools, shows that excessively punitive policies are being used at every level of the...
One of the largest and most important, yet often overlooked, public health studies of our time, the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), concluded: What happens to you when you are a child has a...
There are hundreds of conferences around the world by health professionals, government officials and NGO’s which address mental illness from medical, social, and policy perspectives, but the Church, with its vast network of volunteers and...
California is no stranger to holistic medicine, holistic massage or holistic music (think soothing nature sounds). There's even a pet store in Berkeley called the Holistic Hound. Now comes a new twist on the notion -- holistic criminal defense....
In a study of 14,000 US children, 40 percent lack strong emotional bonds -- what psychologists call 'secure attachment' -- with their parents that are crucial to success later in life, according to a new report. The researchers found that these...
A growing number of programs treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in war veterans. But far fewer treat Americans who suffer from the PTSD that comes with their ZIP code. And this kind of PTSD may be affecting even more people. A recent study...