For the past 50 years, psychotherapy has taken a back seat to biomedical psychiatry, largely due to reliance on medications for the treatment of mental disorders. Yet clinical evidence increasingly points to chronic, unresolved traumatic stress as the...
Psychiatrist and novelist Scott Mendelson wrote this essay for Huffington Post about the effects of child abuse on the brain, and why those who have been abused have an over-amped stress response. A study published in 2009 in the prestigious...
This New York Times story can provide an opportunity to look at a child's normal response to toxic stress in a different way, and to help parents who are inadvertently passing on their own adverse childhood experiences to obtain assistance for...
This is an op-ed piece that addresses a mandatory child-abuse reporting campaign in Great Britain. The campaign for new legislation – dubbed the ‘Daniel Pelka’ law – has been led by Mandate Now, a coalition of charities...
Psychiatrist Mohamed Khalil says it isn’t unusual for refugee kids from the two-and-half year Syrian civil war to draw weapons and to veer from hyperactivity to withdrawal. Khalil says the region is engulfed in a public health crisis that is...
Finnish researchers asked 701 people -- Swedish, Finnish and Taiwanese-speaking people -- to color regions of the body they thought were increasing or decreasing in activity when shown “emotional words, stories, movies, or facial...
NMT Symposium in Banff 2014 The ChildTrauma Academy and Hull Services jointly present Neurosequential Model Inaugural Symposium Brain Development and Trauma: Implications for Interventions and Policy June 10 – 12, 2014 at The Banff Centre...
Teaching kids empathy and modeling it as the adults in their lives helps build a foundation for sexual health and safety. My New Years blog post for Philly.com offers ideas to incorporate The Golden Rule into family New Years Resolutions!...
Philadelphia Inquirer Alfred Lubrano's story appeared on Philly.com earlier this month. By focusing mostly on harsh parenting among the poor (there was one sentence indicating that harsh parenting occurs among middle-class parents), and showing only...
The Southern Hilltown (MA) Domestic Violence Task Force surveyed 326 people in nine rural communities, and will use the information to " launch an outreach and public education campaign beginning in January", according to the report on...
Oklahoma is another state whose occurrences of child abuse have increased. This story refers to the US Department of Health and Human Services data that suggests that child abuse is decreasing nationwide, but, in light of so many state budgets...
This is interesting, given how important attachment is to babies....whether to a mother or a father, and preferably, both. While women have broken into fields once dominated by men, such as business, medicine and law, men have been slower to...
Many rare disorders are caused by gene mutation, like sickle cell anemia. Yet until now the underlying genetic cause of more common conditions -- for example, rheumatoid arthritis -- has evaded scientists for years. New research from Case Western...
The high prevalence of child maltreatment as reported in the European report on preventing child maltreatment set the scene for the Czech national study. The survey on adverse childhood experiences y among young people in the Czech Republic was...