" Faith healing is subject to a number of state laws and exemptions, many of which shield parents from prosecution even when their child dies of an easily treated illness. "According to a 2011 report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal ( CMAJ...
"Children who are exposed to negative parenting – including abuse, neglect but also overprotection – are more likely to experience childhood bullying by their peers, according to a meta-analysis of 70 studies of more than 200,000 children....
"Making sure children grow up in a safe and stable environment is the goal of Iowa State University researchers working on a statewide evaluation through the Iowa Department of Public Health and the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting...
"A Middle Tennessee judge is taking a hard-line approach when it comes to domestic violence cases, but his new rule could land victims of domestic violence cases behind bars.... "If a domestic violence victim decides not to show up, the judge has a...
"Speakers at a Monday forum hosted by the Farmington Area Suicide Prevention Task Force say the topics are related by shame and stigma.... "...Feelings of shame and self-blame are also common in both...." " Forty percent of survivors of domestic...
" Mini-Grant produces impact in community.... “ Improving Infant Health in St. Joseph County ” was one of three 2011 recipients of a Ganey Collaborative Community-Based Research Mini-Grant.... "The participants go through...
"North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has signed bills into law designed to increase child abuse penalties and monitor some people convicted of human trafficking.... "The law taking effect Dec. 1 increases the maximum penalty for the most serious abuse...
" Northeast Florida social workers got some praise and advice Wednesday from a prominent clinical psychologist who amassed a long list of academic accomplishments -- after being abandoned at age 4 and raised in foster care until he was 18.... "His...
"Prisoners who are psychopaths lack the basic neurophysiological "hardwiring" that enables them to care for others, according to a new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and the University of New Mexico. ""A marked lack of empathy...
"A combination of two tasks for implied sexual associations has distinguished – with more than 90 per cent certainty – a group of paedophilic men from a group of men with a sexual preference for adult women. In the long term this could...
"Asian-Americans experience considerable everyday prejudice and discrimination, reports a Cornell study published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology (Vol. 60:2). The study is one of the first to document the prevalence and effects of racial...
"In the first chapter of Speak , the protagonist Melinda lists the first 10 lies they tell you in high school: We are here to help you. These will be the years you look back on fondly. Melinda is raped at a party the summer before she begins high...
"When we started coding the trauma data, which includes all types of childhood injuries that turn up at these trauma centers, and we noticed the morbid pattern of gun violence-related injuries for children ... that shifted the focus of the study to...
"A specific region of the brain is in play when children consider their identity and social status as they transition into adolescence -- that often-turbulent time of reaching puberty and entering middle school, says a University of Oregon...