A front page story in the December 2, 2013 New York Times (headline “Seeing the Toll, Schools Revise Zero Tolerance” ) reported on the significant progress being made around the country to reduce the destructive impact of the...
This story, by Danny Zwerdling, a fabulous NPR reporter, address how the US Army is trying to change its toxic leadership system. My questions: Is this just one step to a trauma-informed system? Could the US Army benefit from adopting the Sanctuary or...
This abstract from Amity L. Noltemeyer, assistant professor of educational psychology at Miami University in Ohio is free, but if you aren't a subscriber to School Psychology International, the article will cost you $25. Children and...
The first time I saw a group from BACA, it was at a hearing about child sex abuse in the California State Legislature. When they walked in, everyone sat up and took notice. Here's a story about a group in Connecticut. Every year, more than 3.5 million...
Here's a good story from last year by Richmond Confidential reporter Brittany Johnson about a home-visiting program in Richmond, CA. The first few paragraphs: If it takes a whole village to raise a child, Richmond and San Pablo have taken the...
This story is part of a series by Daniel Weeks, a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, on TheAtlantic.com. I'm posting it because it shows how our big parts of our economic system are not...
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Experiences profoundly influence the development of young children. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) shape the brain’s organization, which, in turn, influences the emotional, social, cognitive, and physiological activities. Insights into...
Audio of an NPR radio broadcast. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/04/29/179237081/shhh-the-kids-can-hear-you-arguing-even-when-theyre-asleep
The benefit that premature infants gain from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers is measurable even 10 years after birth, reports a new study in Biological Psychiatry . In a new study, Dr. Ruth Feldman, a Professor at Bar-Ilan University, and her...
Federal officials say a children’s lobbying group, PROTECT, pitched the idea of incorporating wounded veterans in the fight against child pornography. ICE Special Agent Patrick Redling said the agency, where veterans account for 30 percent of...
"Here’s what’s worked: nothing." Scott Stossel writes with resignation in the cover article for the current issue of The Atlantic , " Surviving Anxiety ." (Inside the magazine it's headlined "My Anxious, Twitchy, Phobic (Somehow...
The study objectives were to (a) examine the association between total number of trauma types experienced and child/adolescent behavioral problems and (b) determine whether the number of trauma types experienced predicted youth behavioral problems...