by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors site: http://www.nasmhpd.org/Publications/Women_and_Trauma.aspx Groundbreaking Federal Interagency Report on Women and Trauma-informed Approaches You are invited to download a...
Adult patients who seek help in hospital emergency rooms are "more likely to smoke, drink, use illicit substances, and misuse prescription drugs than are members of the general population," according to an overview of a study by Steven Bernstein,...
Andrew Garner wrote this article for Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's the abstract: Home visiting is an important mechanism for minimizing the lifelong effects of early childhood adversity. To do so, it must...
Among the agencies receiving a funding boost after taxpayers approved a health and human services levy last month, is Invest in Children . The agency will get an additional $2.5 million during the next two years. Two million in funding will pay for...
AZStarnet.com reporter Patricia Machelor did a great overview of the cycle of trauma at the root of Arizona's foster care crisis. Whatever the reason for the trauma, its effects are insidious and difficult to address — and they can last a...
With Alzheimer's Disease International predicting that, by 2050,135 million people worldwide will have dementia, this research is worth noting: The study identifies five healthy behaviors as being integral to having the best chance of...
Here's the abstract from this paper by Heather Larkin, Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda, published in Social Work in Public Health: Medical research on “adverse childhood experiences” (ACEs) reveals a compelling relationship between...
Medicalxpress.com reporter Diane Toroian Keaggy interviewed Connie Diekman, director of university nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. Among the stress-fighting foods: whole grains, hot tea and nuts. "Some foods appear to soothe us;...
Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used the Communities That Care prevention system during the teens' middle...
UC Irvine researchers discovered that six or more daily hours of watching, reading or listening to media reports of the Boston Marathon bombings in the week afterward was linked to "more acute stress than having been at or near the marathon,"...
Huffington Post's Maxwell Strachan did this quick analysis of the effects of the cuts made last month to the food stamp program, which affected 47 million people. Critics of the food stamp program claim that the government is too careless with...
The developmental psychologist [Jennie Noll] now serves in a pivotal role in the university's burgeoning effort to become a national leader in the study and prevention of child abuse, an undertaking resulting from the scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Noll, who started in September as director of research and education for the study and prevention of child abuse, is one of five experts the university has hired, with at least nine more to come. Noll is helping...
Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child profiles Acelero Learning in New York City, Westside Infant-Family Network in Los Angeles, and Catholic Community Services of the Mid-Willamette Valley and Central Coast in Oregon. All three...