"A second-grade teacher at a private school in San Diego and the mother of four children, Carie lost her job because school officials feared her ex-husband's menacing behavior was too much of a risk, putting students and other staff in danger. Her own...
"Franciscan Health sponsored a forum held on June 3 at Key Peninsula Middle School for youth exposed to trauma. Jody McVittie, MD, presented a program for teachers, administrators, parents, and others to help them understand and intervene with...
"Officials say parents are arrested leaving their children behind everyday. So we wanted to talk to officials about what policies or procedures are in place to better protect kids. A recent tragedy left a mother and family without their baby girl....
Abstract Background In the Netherlands, screening for child maltreatment is mandatory in all emergency departments but it is unclear which screening methods are being used. As a first step towards implementation of a universal screening method...
Abstract Objectives: Our aim is to critique Australian child maltreatment policy, outline abuse trends and provide data on family risk...
"A member of the American Psychoanalytic Association posted the following on an internal email list, and I am reproducing it with permission. It captures the kind of circular reasoning behind the current paradigm of psychiatry as represented by DSM 5....
http://youtu.be/CE84O9LK2A8 TED x with Jeffrey Bradach
http://youtu.be/14LkAnKAsa4 Community program, "Help Increase the Peace Workshop" created in collaboration with the Alternatives to Violence organization.
In the first of three articles for the Huffington Post , Jane Ellen Stevens talks about one of the biggest public health studies you’ve never heard of. Dr. Felitti ran an incredibly successful preventative health program, but one of the...
"At Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, we talk a lot about prevention. How do you keep kids out of the child welfare system? Prevention. How do you curb the drop out rate and encourage success in school among kids at risk? Prevention. How do...
"For mothers who are suffering from severe mental illness, interactions with babies significantly improve following specialist video-feedback and treatment on an inpatient Mother and Baby Unit (MBU), according to a new study led by King's College...
"Dads who don't live with their sons still can influence them away from risky behaviors, even if they reside in communities of high crime and poverty. "New research from the University of Michigan School of Public Health measured the impact of a...
"Psychology professor Ross Flom's study, published in the academic journal Infancy, shows that infants can recognize each other's emotions by five months of age. This study comes on the heels of other significant research by Flom on infants' ability...
"When young children gaze intently at something or furrow their brows in concentration, you know their minds are busily at work. But you're never entirely sure what they're thinking. "Now you can get an inside look. Psychologists led by the University...