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By Dani Anguiano, Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images, The Guardian, January 25, 2022 The tornado struck Joplin, Missouri , in May 2011 with such fury that afterward, even those who had lived here their entire lives struggled to recognize it. The nearly mile-wide storm wiped away entire neighborhoods and killed 161 people in less than an hour. It felled trees, leveled buildings and flung power lines and vehicles all over the roads with winds of more than 200mph. “We lost all our landmarks,” said...

By Yan Zhuang, Photo: Steven Saphore/Agence France-Press/Getty Images, The New York Times, January 26, 2022 When Laura Thompson, an Indigenous businesswoman, received a cease-and-desist letter in 2019 telling her to stop selling clothing that used the design of the Aboriginal flag because it violated the copyright, she was shocked. “I just never thought for a moment that I could face legal action for using the Aboriginal flag that I thought belonged to all Aboriginal people,” said Ms.

By Kara Grant, MedPage Today, January 25, 2022 Many first-year residents felt their new depressive symptoms were getting in the way of their functionality, researchers reported. In a cohort study of 15,566 medical interns, there was a significant increase in average depression scores relating to clinical impairment -- such as difficulty performing social, occupation, and other important tasks -- Lisa Meeks, PhD, of the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, and colleagues...

By Jess Cartner-Morley, Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, The Guardian, January 26, 2022 Nothing is more radical in fashion than an even slightly rounded thigh or tummy. At Paris haute couture fashion week , Valentino challenged the catwalk’s last taboo by using models whose bodies were mostly close to average size, rather than super skinny. With the elegant understatement for which his dresses are known, designer Pierpaolo Piccioli observed simply that he “thought it was time for a...

By E. Kate Webb, Claire M. Bird, Terri A. deRoon-Cassini, et al., Image: Unsplash, JAMA Network Open, January 24, 2022 Key Points Question Are experiences of racial discrimination associated with altered resting-state connectivity patterns of salience network nodes? Findings In this cross-sectional study of 102 Black adults, more experiences of racial discrimination were associated with altered connectivity of the amygdala and anterior insula, even after adjusting for annual household...

In the first three articles , we have discussed that growing up in an alcoholic or other dysfunctional home changes the lives of the children involved forever. Alcoholism is a family disease that affects everyone and harms children. In this article, we shall explore paths to healing and hope. The Connection Between Alcoholism and Childhood Trauma Drinking alcohol alone does not harm children. However, when drinking alcohol becomes an addiction, the behaviors, and circumstances of the adult...

By Dina Burstein, 1/27/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center is thrilled to announce we have been awarded a grant from the American Public Health Association (APHA). We will collaborate with the RAND Corporation to conduct scoping reviews of the literature relating to childhood exposure to both adverse and positive experiences. This six-month project will produce a final report that summarizes the research about the harmful effects of adverse...

Postpartum Depression and the Baby Blues Parents of infants may express concerns around fluctuating emotions during the first few weeks after birth. Reassuring parents that it is totally normal to experience Baby Blues, while discussing more serious signs of PPD or PP Anxiety, is an important part of ensuring baby’s health, too. Untreated parental depression can disrupt a parent’s ability to sensitively respond to their infant, accurately read infant cues, and to engage in verbal and...

Please join us for our new series Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn . This monthly series will feature a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection Education Consultant, with special guests on education related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs science aware lens to examine what is going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system.

By Lisa Friedman, Photo: Gerald Herbert/Associated Press, The New York Times, January 26, 2022 Michael S. Regan, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, traveled to Jackson, Miss., in November to discuss the city’s poor water quality at an elementary school where children have to drink bottled water and use portable restrooms outside the building. The day he arrived, the halls were largely empty. Students had been sent home because the water pressure at the school was so...

By Sushma Subramanian, Image: Annelien Smet, The Washington Post Magazine, January 18, 2021 J udge Brent Hall had some stern words of advice for the young couple seated before him at Hopkins County Family Court in Madisonville, Ky. Jordan Pyles and Ashlyn Harrell had come to make some small adjustments to a temporary custody arrangement for their 4-year-old daughter, but on this March afternoon in 2018 what preoccupied them was their upcoming trial in June. Pyles, a 25-year-old project...

By Natalie Krebs, Photo: Natalie Krebs, Center for Health Journalism, January 24, 2022 When COVID-19 hit the nation’s meatpacking plants and infected thousands of workers in the spring of 2020, it was widely reported. National stories described how workers, who are often first-generation immigrants, stood shoulder to shoulder for hours working on fast-paced lines. This is what made it so easy for the virus to spread through facilities quickly. I watched how leaders in Iowa overwhelmingly...