"The headmaster of the Neighborhood House Charter School is still feeling the effects of the Boston Marathon bombings that killed one of his students and injured another and her mother.... "Asked by Pressley how the children are doing, Andrews...
" Betty Ford Institute past president Dr Garrett O’Connor shares discoveries from decades of experience on how to recover from addiction: the role of shame, resilience, spirituality and survival in mending broken people, commonalities with...
" Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can occur when people experience a traumatic event. PTSD can affect anyone – from service men and women returning from the horrors of war to abused children and the...
"Large numbers of Irish children are experiencing adverse events that cast a long shadow on their future physical and mental health, a conference has heard. One in seven Irish nine-year-olds has experienced the divorce or separation of their parents,...
Abstract Background Alcohol use is the third most important global-health risk factor and a main contributor to health inequalities. Previous research on social determinants of alcohol-related disorders has delivered inconsistent results. We...
"In my work with adult survivors of sexual assault, I am beginning to notice a pattern of behavior that I have termed “wounded attachment.” The impact of childhood sexual assault has reverberating effects on almost every facet of...
From TheNextWeb.com: Google sent an email to Blogger users today warning them that their site will be removed at the end of the month if they do not remove all adverts and links to external sites hosting adult content. Blogger’s current...
During a recent stay in Seattle, I lived in homeless shelters for two days, sleeping, eating, and searching for resources to make life comfortable. People who experience homelessness and live on the streets or in shelters experience the results...
This was posted at one of the Homeless Shelters I stayed at.
" Parenthood is the source of our citizens and the foundation of our economy. Parents who raise a productive citizen contribute $1.4 million to our economy. Parents who abuse and/or neglect a child who becomes a criminal or welfare...
"The bond between human and household pet is unconditional love and security. When that bond is broken, by either witnessing or participating in, animal abuse, that act desensitizes the person to violence and causes them to distance them self from...
Abstract We examine the effects of Head Start participation on parenting and child maltreatment in a large and diverse sample of low-income families in large U.S. cities (N = 2807), using rich data from the Fragile Families and Child...
"The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a citizens' blue ribbon commission to propose reforms in the county's troubled child welfare agency. The commission, with two members to be appointed by each of the five supervisors,...
"The assessment of risk in patients who go on to die by suicide or commit homicide is often poor, a new study has found. "A report by The University of Manchester's National Confidential Inquiry (NCI) into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental...