Abstract The population of Americans without homes, especially those with children, is becoming increasing diverse. As their diversity increases, so should provider efforts to accommodate those families by facilitating their transitions in more...
“A great many students come to school with emotional and behavioral difficulties that pose serious barriers to their learning ,” writes David Bornstein in the New York Times. More than 20 percent of Spokane elementary students had two or...
#6 in my News Blog series, studies for my new book: "Don’t Try This at Home- The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder - How I accidentally regressed myself back to infancy and healed it all" at AttachmentDisorderHealing.com/book/ Fear with a...
. New research reveals a hidden link between chronic health conditions and domestic violence. It has been ignored as a risk factor in standard medical examinations. Help change that by asking your doctor to screen patients for domestic...
"Yesterday there was an article in the New York Times by David Bornstein about schools that recognize ways that trauma impacts children’s behavior. Certain educators are finding ways to respond that are more effective than...
"Her previous research, done in the United States, showed that young Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with PTSD were exhibiting symptoms of heart disease and other ailments usually seen in much older people. This research led her to focus on the...
"Risk factors like race and poverty are not the predictors they have been assumed to be," said Papachristos, "It's who you hang out with that gets you into trouble. It's tragic, but not random." "The study, co-authored with Christopher Wildeman from...
"Nonprofit production company Artistic Circles has a 25-year history of focusing on difficult issues, telling stories that would otherwise go untold. We create "collaborative media for the common good,” producing powerful radio and TV...
"Living in a violence-plagued neighborhood may cause such great stress that a person's gene expression may be altered. These are the findings of Katherine Theall, Stacy Drury and an interdisciplinary team of Tulane University researchers.... "In their...
"Children who have gone through trying times are more likely to be overweight by age 15, a new study suggests. "Stress in childhood has been associated with a greater risk of becoming overweight, although the link isn't always consistent from study to...
This post features ACEsConnection member Dr. Robert Anda. "Dr. Robert Anda, MD, MS is the co-founder of ACE Interface, LLC and the co-founder and co-principal investigator for the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. He has conducted research in...
ACEsConnection member, Dr. Robert Anda, is mentioned in this article. "Erika Meyer, a supervisor in Ongoing Case Management at Integrated Family Services (IFS), has been hired as project coordinator for St. Aemilian-Lakeside’s $450,000 grant...
"Last week, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies had its annual meeting in Philadelphia. I was there, and discussions abound about “Criterion A.” Contrary to what its name might suggest, Criterion...
"The medical profession has issued new guidelines for fighting the nation's obesity epidemic, and they urge physicians to be a lot more aggressive about helping patients drop those extra pounds. "Doctors should calculate your body mass index , a...