During the last half of September, 25 people joined ACEsConnection. (Yes, I'm doing catch-up on bragging about our new members!) Thanks to you all for joining, and we look forward to your participation. Brent Robins , Des Moines, IA, director of...
"Social contexts are well-established predictors of adjustment following trauma. Sexual abuse survivors who are believed and supported following an abuse disclosure fare better than those who are not, and returning veterans’ social support...
On this first day of the New Year, some words about resilience from Eknath Easwaran's Words to Live By . As an irrigator guides water to the fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives. ...
"...Wilson based her conclusion on her life experience. But research increasingly backs up her observation that family trauma often repeats itself in succeeding generations. A study that began in the mid-1990s at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego and...
A post from onlineobesitysupport.com "Right from the 1970’s several researchers have realized that obesity and child abuse trauma are somehow interlinked. This severe problem was identified by “the renowned founder of Kaiser...
This is a relatively new grassroots-run website with a special focus on "sexual abuse" but with a strong invitation to all trauma survivors. They have an interesting North America group-services resource locator that is in the making....
"The larger economic environment during infancy may be associated with subsequent substance use and delinquent behavior during adolescence, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA Network publication.......
"American Academy of Pediatrics' new policy statement says recess should never be withheld for punitive or academic reasons...." "It's important to view recess as "a child's personal time to decompress from rigorous academic activity and to prepare...
A wonderful blog post from Sophie Lucido Johnson, a teacher who works with children identified as having emotional disturbances. ACEsConnection member Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is quoted in this article. "...Home for Brooke is a little confusing...
From the Chicago Reporter , an infographic that provides a primer on how youth are handled in the Illinois juvenile justice system. http://chiyouthjustice.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/infographic-youth-in-the-juvenile-justice-system/
Abstract conclusions "ELS [early-life stress] and resilience are important modulating factors in adjusting to military service. We suggest that neglect and exposure to domestic violence during early life may increase problem with adjustment, but capacity to control emotion and impulse as well as optimistic attitude may play protective roles in adjustment to military life. The screening procedures for ELS and the development of psychological interventions may be helpful for young adults...
" As COTS faces funding threat, people, community will suffer.... "A new study by leading regional economist Dr. Rob Eyler of Economic Forensics and Analytics looked at the connection between homelessness and the local economy and estimates that a...
A great StopSpanking.org blog entry by ACEsConnection member Robbyn Peters Bennett, LMHC, CMHS. "As a Jungian-oriented clinican, I am very interested in the influence of the collective psyche on individuals within our communities. I...
"...New research points us in a different direction, one of “Trauma Socialized.” Less injury and more context, where trauma itself becomes mutable, not a bullet or a knife but a social event formed by social interactions and cultural...
"Children who make an effort to perform acts of kindness are happier and experience greater acceptance from their peers, suggests new research from the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Riverside. "Kimberly...