"Researchers now suspect that post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) may emerge from flaws in sleep's forgetting process. Two studies presented at the 2012 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans indicate that sleep might offer a...
"Grim images of gun incidents spanning from Newtown, Conn., to Los Angeles have filled news reports of late, presenting a challenge for parents whose children are exposed to these events through the media—whether by television, newspaper or the...
Connie Valentine, founder of the Incest Survivors Speakers Bureau , says no, in this article she wrote for the Davis, CA, Enterprise . It's posted here, with her permission: April is dedicated nationally to child abuse prevention and sexual assault...
"Its spread mimics infections such as HIV, says US professor Gary Slutkin, who advises treating it as a public health problem. London group Chaos Theory is taking his approach to the streets..."...
"Mimicking the behaviour of mum and dad has long been considered a vital way in which children learn about the world around them. Now psychologists at The University of Nottingham have shown that copying unnecessary behaviour is more likely to be a...
"Considering my physical and psychological state then, needless to say it was an overwhelming experience that seemed to exacerbate, not address, the trauma I was feeling. What I needed was someone who would understand my needs and help me address...
A Camden, NJ Hospital Places Visual Reminders Against Child Abuse - New Jersey “Children respond to (abuse) by sometimes by becoming aggressive,” says Cooper emergency medicine and child abuse specialist Dr. Kathy McCans (third from left...
"The New York City drop-in center for homeless LGBT youth is taking on religion-based familial rejection.... "With a series of videos and an op-ed in The Huffington Post , New York City's Ali Forney Center is encouraging religious parents not to use...
"...The Unity House in south Seattle opened its doors to the public, offering a rare look inside a sex offender halfway house. "Jim Tharpe, Unity House owner, looks at his home as an educational center for convicted sex offenders released from prison....
"In the United States, nearly one in five women have been raped at some point in their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — most of them before age 25. Across the planet, more than one in three women will be...
"Living in a shelter as a kid was horrible. Every time my peers at school spoke about their life at home, I felt uncomfortable knowing I was homeless. The shelter didn’t have cable TV, which left me out of many conversations at school. "I was...
Abstract Documented risk factors for suicide among alcohol-dependent patients are sensitive but insufficiently specific to effectively identify individuals who are prone to future suicide attempt. As a first step to assess factors not previously...
We are working closely with the Domestic Abuse and Homeless Shelters here in town. We would love to help them start a transitional child care at their sites to transition children back into day to day life that have experienced trauma. Does anyone...
Adrian Rogers, a reporter for the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, WA, did a great job in this story -- Taking on Trauma -- about how elementary schools in Spokane have integrated trauma-informed practices. Otis Orchards Elementary School, in the...
In the Winter/Spring 2013 publication of The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health, this article appeared: Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)Pseudoscientific Theory Used Against Survivors in CourtIs Rejected from the DSM-V Joan Meier, Professor of Clinical Law, George Washington University Law School In the last year, it was decided that Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and its offspring (Parental Alienation Disorder) will not be included in the...