If you haven't heard Act 1 from this 2006 episode, it's guaranteed to bring you to tears (of joy) and, perhaps, inspire you. And it provides a very interesting insight into what it takes to successfully provide unconditional love to a child who's...
It's common to think that offering just comforting words and encouraging traumatized youngsters to forget their ordeals is protecting them, but that's "not doing them any favors," said University of Pennsylvania psychologist Edna Foa, the lead author....
When a man in Israel was accused of sexually abusing his young daughter, it was hard for many people to believe -- a neighbor reported seeing the girl sitting and drinking hot chocolate with her father every morning, laughing, smiling, and looking...
In Connecticut, the Sandy Hook shootings led to the passage of legislation to strengthen the state's mental health system and intensified efforts to train personnel to screen for trauma in pediatric, school, juvenile justice, welfare and other...
Freelance journalist Charlotte Silver interviewed Vincent Felitti and me for this story, which was published on Alternet on Tuesday. Here's the beginning: A man, 50, begins to experience shortness of breath and aching chest pains. He goes to his...
The study is the first in which researchers linked anxiety and stroke independent of other factors such as depression. Anxiety disorders are one of the most prevalent mental health problems. Symptoms include feeling unusually worried, stressed,...
Not surprisingly, fathers who lived with their kids were more likely to take them to activities than those who didn't: 21 percent compared to 4 percent. Thirty percent of dads living with kids checked homework daily versus 6 percent of...
Access is another theme that emerged from Thompson's study. She [Wanda Thompson, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden] says, "In urban areas or low economic neighborhoods where there is little to no access to gyms, recreation centers, or parks, children are less likely to get the physical activity they need. You have to start looking at access and providing a safe, supportive environment where children could go and get their exercise," she notes. Thompson...
"Holiday anxiety is similar to holiday depression," says Cal Adler, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati and co-director of the Mood Disorders Center at the UC Neuroscience Institute, one of four...
Those with higher rates of problems accessing routine care "include beneficiaries with no supplemental insurance or Medicaid, beneficiaries under age 65 living with a permanent disability, beneficiaries in fair and poor health, beneficiaries with four...
Health reporter Maia Szalavitz wrote this long feature about Henry and Kamila Markram's "intense world" theory of autism. The behavior that results is not due to cognitive deficits—the prevailing view in autism research circles today—but...
By the time poor children are 3, researchers believe they have heard on average about 30 million fewer words than children the same age from better-off families, setting back their vocabulary, cognitive development, and future reading skills before...
In the mid-1800s, how we lived had a lot to do with how we caught disease. That's when we first discovered the connection between overcrowded, unsanitary housing and the spread of cholera, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. Back then, the fields of...