This story from the Washington Post is heartbreaking. Having seen schools that have changed their approach to school discipline, I don't think that turning our schools into prisons, as evidenced in this story, is necessary. The small band of guerrilla...
"There has been a lot in the media lately about victim responsibility and the culture of violence in our community.... "I am also very troubled by the media coverage of this event. Why are we focusing on the victim and her responsibility in this?......
"Eugene King ran away from home at the age of 16, the start of a lifelong pattern of drug abuse, crime and incarceration.... "In retrospect, King said, he realizes he was using illicit drugs at least in part to self-medicate a variety of psychiatric...
"Can events like Red Fridays, Tickets for Troops and the yellow ribbon campaign reduce the chances of Canadian soldiers experiencing combat-related stress disorders? The authors of a new study from the University of Alberta think so...."...
"Gathering evidence from children about alleged sex abuse is problematic. Research shows that when interviewers are trained in a protocol that favours open-ended questions more cases lead to charges and more charges lead to prosecution...."...
Abstract Iraqi refugees face difficulties resettling in the US, which may be partially due to high rates of torture. This study determines the rates of torture experience, primary and secondary, among Iraqi refugees in the US; and the association to...
"Throughout the month we will feature the 10 Safe Start Promising Approaches grantees and the work they’re doing in their communities to help children exposed to violence and their families. "Louisa was born into a family wrought with drug...
"On Thursday, March 28, SAMHSA/CSAT hosted an hour-long #RecoveryChat on Twitter with Paulo del Vecchio, director of the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) as the host. The theme of the chat was “Trauma: Treatment and Recovery through the...
"Approximately one in three women, and 1 percent of men, in the military have experienced a sexual assault, according to the Department of Defense."...
"Mothers suffering from postpartum depression after a high-risk pregnancy would turn to online interventions if available anonymously and from professional healthcare providers, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve University's Frances...
"This study demonstrates that writing therapy resulted in significant and substantial short-term reductions in post traumatic symptoms (PTS) and comorbid depressive symptoms. Writing therapy is an evidence-based treatment for PTS, and constitutes a...
"When we think of pain we generally think of something that is related to our body. But there is a devastating form of pain that is not frequently acknowledged and is a topic of a paper by Eliana Tossani (University of Bologna) in the current issue of...
"Potts, professor of English, served on the subcommittee of the American Association of University Professors that drafted a statement on sexual assault. The association's report, adopted in 2012, details the widespread problem of sexual assault on...
"This experience of human disconnection, a separation of self from self and self from others, is a fundamental concept in both trauma-informed practice and in eCPR.... "When I am practicing eCPR I am cleaning the lens. By that I mean, I intentionally...
"But isn’t this how we should deal with everyone? What is normal? Isn’t normal up for debate? We don’t truly want people to be “normal”…we just want people not to others. "So taking this idea – The...