Different explanations have been given for the increased number of people suffering from mental illness. Some have claimed the increase is the result of ever-expanding diagnostic criteria and syndromes that risk medicalizing normal emotional...
The Affordable Care Act now provides health care for low-income adults without children, including the approximately 300,000 who leave prison this year. Marketplace Dan Gorenstein looked at how former inmates may - or may not be - helped by this new...
Progress like Newell's stems from a special kind of parent-child interaction, says Dana Suskind, a professor of surgery and pediatrics at the University of Chicago, who started the 30 Million Words program. "We can't just have people saying 30 million...
This fascinating story, written by Anna Limontas Salisbury for WomensEnew.org , tells the story of Nancy Vivioda, who, without warning, had her five children removed from her and sent to five different foster homes for a year because her husband --...
Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of such an important group of individuals, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Laura Mayo. I am the mother of a 10 year old son, Riese. Together we are survivors of alcoholic domestic violence, for me it...
This research has huge implications for ACE-, trauma-informed and resilience-building work around the globe. Although , so far, ACE surveys from different countries and on different sub-populations are finding similar results to the CDC's ACE Study...
Dawn Post, co-borough director of the Brooklyn, NY, office of the Children's Law Center (CLC), a non-profit law firm providing representation to over 10,000 children per year in the nation's busiest Family Court system, wrote this essay for...
When school systems across the country adopted zero tolerance policies in the 1990s, "willful defiance" became the No. 1 reason for suspensions, and launched students, especially minority students, into the school-to-prison pipeline. California is...
Thanks to Martha Davis for pointing out this essay on the Daily Good, which republished Carolyn Gregoire's fine post on Huffington Post. Gregoire provides the details of the seven habits of highly resilient people. Here are two: They fully experience...
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reporter Ben Wentz wrote this long feature about Jim Sporleder, former principal of Lincoln High School, and a member of ACEsConnection. It's well worth a read. Here's the beginning: He gave too much. Those were the...
A Prospective Study of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Weight Status in Women Experience of PTSD symptoms is associated with an increased risk of becoming overweight or obese, and PTSD symptom onset alters BMI trajectories over time. The...
In an analysis of 20,000 people, about half of which were severely mentally ill, researchers found: In the severely mentally ill group -- 30 percent engaged in binge drinking, 75 percent smoked cigarettes, 50 percent used marijuana, half used other...
Most of this article tells the story of a woman who'd been stabbed to death by her partner. Way down in the story is the information -- all of it, below -- about how police officers in Columbus will be trained to do a lethality assessment. To be more...