"The Affordable Care Act, in addition to bringing significant changes to California's state prison system, could contribute to increased public safety and a reduction in crime statewide, according to some experts and stakeholders.... "...
"While U.S. adults believe that bullying is a major health problem for children, they have different views about which types of bullying behavior should spur schools to take action, a new survey finds."...
"Healing touch combined with guided imagery (HT+GI) provides significant clinical reductions in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms for combat-exposed active duty military, according to a study released in the September issue of Military...
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"Analyses of childhood adversity subscales showed that, specifically, emotional neglect was associated with infarction...."It would be of interest to know if leukocyte telomere length or telomerase activity correlates with cerebral infarction in their...
Many people have heard about the school-to-prison pipeline -- how harsh school discipline policies funnel kids into the criminal justice system. Last month, the Children's Defense Fund issued its 2012 report on the State of...
"The first ever global study to examine how changes in health inequality are related to overall coverage of maternal and child health interventions has shown that the countries making the most rapid progress in increasing maternal and child health...
"...One argument that violence researchers often hear is that behaviors like name-calling and insults aren't serious enough to be called abuse. But that's not true, Bonomi said. "Studies in adults have shown that psychological abuse alone can be...
Released today from the Institute for Economics & Peace , this new report, Violence Containment Spending in the United States , provides an analyses of how much of the U.S. economy is related to preventing or dealing with the consequences of violence. Key Findings from the report: Violence Containment cost the U.S. $2.16 trillion per year. If violence containment were an industry, it would be the largest industry in the U.S. Federal expenditure has expanded in the last ten...
"In 18 years - the time it takes for an infant to develop into an adult - the number of children who've become victims of violence at home has declined, says a report released Wednesday by the federal Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice...
Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy Dr. Philip V. Scribano, who works at the Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania reviewed these articles for the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) September...
"As kids and teachers head back to school, we wanted to turn away from questions about politics and unions and money and all the regular school stuff people argue about, and turn to something more optimistic — an emerging theory...
"On June 15, 2011, Washington became the first state in the United States to enact legislation aimed at preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACE), reducing their prevalence, and mitigating their effects. House Bill 1965 (HB 1965) was established...
There's a new book out -- Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges . It's written by Steven Southwick, a Yale Medical School and Yale Child Study Center psychiatry professor who specializes in PTSD and resilience, and...