"Preventing violence must involve the opposite: making sure people feel safe, cared about, and connected, while ensuring they have a healthy and realistic sense of self-esteem and self-worth....Many environmental factors can contribute to violence....
"MICAH House is the first shelter in the metro area to use TIC to help its guests return to normal situations, she said. In the year-and-a-half since this program has been implemented, disturbances between staff and the guests have decreased...
"The proportion of Americans who are severely obese—those people 100 pounds or more overweight—continues to increase rapidly and much faster than those with moderate obesity, but the rate of growth has slowed, according to a new RAND...
"A new Yale School of Medicine study shows that cases of serious physical abuse in children, such as head injuries, burns, and fractures, increased slightly by about 5% in the last 12 years. This is in sharp contrast to data from child protective...
I typically ignore national awareness initiatives saddled to particular months. There are simply too many of them. For example, October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month; Crime Prevention Month; Health Literacy Month; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,...
"Physical activity interventions for children have small impact on overall activity levels and consequently the body fat and mass of children, a study published in the British Medical Journal today suggests." ...
"Studies linking early childhood trauma to addiction are growing in number. This knowledge should be helpful, suggesting a more focused prevention approach towards parents of infants."...
It's terrific to see the CDC's ACE Study , neurobiological research on children's brains, and trauma-informed practices featured on Salon ( Is Your Kid an Addict? ) and by David Brooks in his column, The Psych Approach . Just terrific. The...
"Most experts agree that genes don’t make a person an addict or alcoholic. Instead, as Canadian addictions expert Gabor Maté notes in his book about addiction, “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts,” addiction is one result of...
Teri Barila and Mark Brown's Sept. 17 presentation for the National Council for Community Behavioral Health is available online. You can view the presentation and download the PowerPoint by going to the National Councl's Webinar: Recordings & Presentations page , scrolling down to their listing and clicking on the links.
"When you look over the domestic policy landscape, you see all these different people in different policy silos with different budgets: in health care, education, crime, poverty, social mobility and labor force issues. But, in their disjointed ways,...
Just finished reading this article by Bessel A. van der Kolk. I'm sure many of you have seen it already!
"Unite in support of adult survivors of childhood trauma." http://asca.org.au/displaycomm...mp;subarticlenbr=242
"A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers shows that adolescents' reactions to threat remain high even when the danger is no longer present. According to researchers, once a teenager's brain is triggered by a threat, the ability to...
"The former commander of Australian forces in Afghanistan, Major General (ret) John Cantwell discusses his battle with post-traumatic stress disorder and the prevalence of the disorder in the armed forces." (16 min video)...