"While we live in an era with no shortage of intractable problems, improving the odds for older youth in foster care is different because it's achievable, and most importantly, it's the right thing to do. Just like all kids, teenagers in foster care...
"Law-enforcement officers often respond to calls involving feuding couples, violent relatives and other acts of aggression in the home. "But sometimes, officers are the ones involved in domestic disputes.... "To help prevent such violence in officers'...
Abstract Events causing stress responses during sensitive periods of rapid neurological development in childhood may be early determinants of all-cause premature mortality. Using a British birth cohort study of individuals born in 1958, the...
"And once again, former students, parents and former staff members say that children at some of the schools, Mr. Chomakhidze among them, have been routinely mistreated. "School officials have denied Mr....
"Most adults who were abused as children were harmed by those in their immediate family rather than by those in religious, educational or health institutions, new research shows. "The findings, based on statistics from more than...
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"Opening the new headquarters of Adults Surviving Child Abuse ( ASCA ) today, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Senator Jacinta Collins said the organisation would receive the funding as part of the Government's e-Mental Health Strategy....
A must read in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times , “Status and Stress,” by Moises Velasquez-Manoff, describes how the long-term health effects of stress are even more toxic when hopelessness is also experienced. The...
In a recent NPR interview about mental illness the following was revealed: “ Psychiatrist [Harold] Schwartz has been a part of the conversation about Connecticut 's mental health system that has gained new urgency since the school shootings in Newtown . He says a lot of attention is now being paid to identifying young people with emotional struggles who need help, but when it comes to helping people like Bell [a 54-year old man who eventually committed suicide] homeless,...
"As the children grew, the researchers did many evaluations to tease out environmental factors that could be affecting their development. On the upside, they found that children being raised in a nurturing home - measured by such factors as caregiver...
“The quality of a child’s relationship with its parent will be influenced by the amount of stress the parent’s under, so if the parent is dealing with domestic violence, homelessness, poverty then their resources for creating a...
When the co-parental relationship is not supportive, children suffer. For example, husbands who show little warmth or are abusive towards their wives, have wives who are more likely to feel emotionally drained, irritable, and distracted. This...
"Even the most resilient asylum seekers who spend more than six months in detention risk mental illness, new research has found. "The deterioration in mental health came despite detainees being reasonably well cared for with regard to basic needs...
[must-listen] " Today, Marcelle talks to Dr. Vincent Felitti about his groundbreaking work on the ACE Study . Listen in to hear about the ongoing effects of the 10 categories of childhood experiences that were studied on adult well-being, health, and social function a half-century later. ..." http://www.hayhouseradio.com/s...ails.php?show_id=346 # Direct link to interview: http://bit.ly/1bWJbO5 Reference was made to Raz Ingrasci of The Hoffman Institute Foundaton in San Rafael,...