"Idaho’s Child Welfare program has received federal approval to broaden its use of federal funds to include in-home preventive and treatment services for families who are struggling, with an aim to keep children in their homes and out of foster...
"Modern medicine usually considers trauma—both the physical and the psychological kinds—as unequivocally damaging. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University are lending support to a more philosophical view of suffering, finding that trauma,...
Abstract Objective Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is significantly and positively associated with several physical conditions. We aimed to examine whether the nature and number of trauma(s) experienced may be related to physical conditions using...
"Through a series of four experiments – one involving the aforementioned sports rivalry – the researchers found that people are actually biologically responsive to taking pleasure in the pain of others, a reaction known as "Schadenfreude."...
"There is reasonably consistent evidence that childhood maltreatment is associated with psychosis in adulthood. The focus of research has now shifted to the potential mechanisms that underlie this association. In a direct pathway, abusive...
AC member Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is featured in this podcast. "For the latest State of Opportunity , Michigan Radio reporter Zak Rosen explored how childhood trauma can lead to health problems later in life. "In his story, he asks you to...
"The ills of our society exist because, to some degree, we tolerate them. Domestic violence is an especially senseless crime. It's unhealthy for the abused and the abuser. "In the end, everyone wants to feel loved. It's a basic human need. We need to...
"Angry red welts criss-cross down a child’s back. Another cowering infant covers two black eyes with his tiny hands. "A shocking slideshow of images showing children who had been subjected to physical abuse drew gasps of horror on...
A landmark study on adverse childhood experiences should revolutionize medicine. But it hasn't yet. The cost of trauma While the psychological and psychosocial repercussions of childhood trauma are widely accepted, the very real physical...
"A former United States Marine took his life after holding his family of five hostage early Tuesday morning. Friends said the veteran was struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Channel 3 Eyewitness News looked into the disorder that...
(Photo/Ira Gelb via Flickr) ...a Florida nonprofit will open a first-of-its-kind safe house that offers sex trafficking survivors in the state — which has the third-highest number of human trafficking victims in the United States...
Kids are exposed to pornography on-line; some seek it out but much exposure is involuntary. When those images are violent or frightening, the results can be long term. Please see this article offering some thoughts...
HONDURAS is now the 34th nation to ban spanking in the home. http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/news/honduras-prohibits.html That comes as a surprise to many Americans! Most folks don't like the idea of a ban, even if they...
From Chapter 2 of "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/ When my second therapist Dr. Rita heard about...
"This report from ForcesWatch, shows that young soldiers recruited from disadvantaged backgrounds are substantially more likely than other troops to return from war experiencing problems with their mental health. "The report, The Last Ambush? Aspects...