Yesterday was a big day in the lives of the more than 10,000 children who are incarcerated in adult prisons. And the 81,000 more who are in juvenile justice facilities. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) opened public hearings on the...
"Seclusion and restraints are violent and largely preventable behavioral health practices that are now widely understood to be treatment failures. They are the direct cause of as many as 150 deaths each year in psychiatric and residential mental...
"New research from PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia shows that one of the nation's largest programs providing home visitation support for at-risk mothers and children may not be as successful in reducing early childhood injuries as...
"Children suffering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of traumatic events, including child abuse, may benefit from psychological therapies, according to a review published in The Cochrane Library. In the first systematic review of PTSD...
"ACTION REQUESTED: Please disseminate to your networks in Washington State the attached RFLOI describing an opportunity to apply to participate in a three-year evaluation to help build understanding about community approaches and strategies...
"In an effort to add to a growing interest in the long-term health influence of childhood adversity, Barnes and colleagues started by interviewing about 6,100 people who lived in Chicago and were enrolled in a study of Alzheimer's. All participants...
Restraint and seclusion in public schools has become a national issue this year (see: http://terrifyingdiscipline.weebly.com/index.html ). Children with post traumatic stress and autism spectrum disorders often have behaviors which put them at risk of...
Puppies for Parole is a program run by the state department of corrections that uses offenders to care for and provide obedience training to dogs which are otherwise slated to be euthanized in animal shelters. The training makes it likelier the dogs...
Wisconsin's First Lady Tonette Walker is working with the state's Department of Children and Families and some private organizations "to better recognize, understand, and address the effects of trauma on the lives of children and families in...
Do you remember childhood field trips to science museums, gazing into dioramas of our distant ancestors? Perhaps you saw artistic renditions of Homo erectus huddled around a fire, or sitting near a faux cave carving stone tools—a nod to our...
It's difficult to understand how something so important has been flying under the radar for such a very long time. It's time we shine some light on it. The FACT that there is a link between the abuse of children and the abuse of animals. This is not...
"LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Clinicians will (1) be able to distinguish trauma informed care from trauma specific interventions, (2) review the prevalence of trauma histories among those seeking mental health services, (3) learn the 5 principles of trauma...
Abstract: "Research comparing adolescents engaging in suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), both separately and in combination, is still at an early stage. The purpose of the present study was to examine overlapping and distinguishable...
"Post-traumatic stress disorder has many faces beyond the returning combat veteran. "Increasingly, childhood trauma survivors are a face of PTSD. The sooner that parents, teachers and medical professionals recognize that PTSD and other illnesses and...
"According to a new study from the Slone Epidemiology Center (SEC) at Boston University, African-American women who reported suffering abuse before age 11 had a greater likelihood of adult-onset asthma compared to women whose childhood and adolescence...