"The GAINS Center interviewed Judge Christine Carpenter, Circuit Judge of Division One in the 13th Judicial Circuit, Columbia, MO about what it’s like presiding over a trauma-informed court. Judge Carpenter is the supervising judge for the...
"Teachers' daily interactions with children are crucial to making sure they're ready for school. Many state early childhood systems and the federal Office of Head Start consider teacher-child interactions when they measure programs' quality. But...
"Dr. Steve Feder, a Midcoast pediatrician...also expressed concern that 25 percent of Maine children experienced two or more adverse childhood experiences (ACES) . Early exposure to family violence, abusive treatment, neglect, alcohol and drug abuse,...
"According to the 2012 Report of the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence, 46 million children living in the United States will have their lives affected by violence, crime, abuse, or psychological trauma this...
"It's well known that trauma can have a lasting effect on children, especially when it happens in the earliest years.... "That's where Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) comes in. Trauma Systems Therapy recognizes that traumatized kids who act out aren't...
http://www.pcsao.org/BHmaterials/PloukHurstOhiosTraumaInformedCare.pdf
Abstract Background The aim of this study is to examine the prevalence of mental disorders in 6- to 12-year-old foster children and assess comorbidity and risk factors. Methods Information on mental health was collected from foster parents and...
"The field of child welfare is brimming with policy proposals and legislation that could dramatically change the way the federal government invests in foster care and families on the brink. What’s more, some appear to have bipartisan support or...
"An editorial in [Nov17th’s] Times cites disheartening discrepancies in how the Veterans Affairs Department handles disability claims involving post-traumatic stress disorder. According to a report released this month by advocates for women and men who were sexually harassed and attacked while serving in uniform, survivors of sexual trauma are far less likely than other veterans to have their disability benefits approved. "The report found double-digit gaps between the approval rates...
"It’s not just veterans that are dealing with OSI’s [Occupational Stress Injuries]. Childhood trauma, even trauma of the mother during pregnancy, can affect a child’s development. With family violence, poverty, parental addiction, and increasing isolationism, many children are affected and experience interrupted development and an ever compounding backlash of mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, social and economic deficits as they age. "The solutions are not easy, but...
http://www.mekids.org/assets/files/databooks/2013/ACES_2011.pdf
"Using an approach combining in vivo recordings and optogenetic manipulations in mice, the researchers succeeded in showing that the inhibition of parvalbumin-expressing prefrontal interneurons triggers a chain reaction resulting in fear behaviour....
Abstract Objectives : Child abuse leads to multiple physical and psychosomatic sequelae. Aim of this study was to evaluate the association between child abuse and constipation among school children. Methods: Children aged 13-18 years were selected...
"A catastrophe on the scale of the Philippines typhoon focuses critical attention on the susceptibility of poor and vulnerable populations to natural disasters. Yet, it is no less important to remember that poor and vulnerable populations,...
"It is widely known that deployment is stressful for military families, including their children. A new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds that teens from military families are more likely to feel sad or hopeless, have thoughts about...
"Women with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) gain weight more rapidly and are more likely to be overweight or obese than women without the disorder, find researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Harvard School of...
"A local drug treatment center is doing its part to get homeless families off the streets. "The Bossier Treatment Center's Family Success Institute helps mothers stay off drugs, while still caring for their children. "It's unique because it's one of...
"Renowned filmmaker and psychologist Jan Haaken spoke about her feature-length documentary, “Mind Zone: Therapists Behind the Front Lines,” and its discussion of post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological challenges faced by...
"Google is targeting 100,000 terms associated with online child sexual abuse in a move hailed by David Cameron, who will announce a series of measures to tackle the problem at a cyber-summit in Downing Street. The prime minister said that Google and...
Abstract Parental incarceration is often an adverse childhood experience that has been characterized as an enduring trauma that involves ongoing and repeated stressors. In this study we focus on the role of parental incarceration in predicting child...
"Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation to help protect the most vulnerable Californians - homeless children and adults and foster youth.... "The Governor signed the following bills: • AB 346 by Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Scotts Valley) -...
"The soldiers have undergone a serious of blood tests, to see if they are more inclined to develop the diseases. Nero-psyche tests, map attention and memory skills, then Auburn's MRI research center performs a serious of brain scans while soldiers are...
Abstract Little is known about the long-term neural consequences of adverse life events for healthy adolescents, and this is particularly the case for events that occur after a putative stress-sensitive period in early childhood. In this functional...
"I completely isolated myself from my squad," explained Lopez, who also described feelings of anger during that period. "I felt like nobody cared. I was out there floundering, and I really felt that nobody really cared what I was going through," he...
"Right now I am trying, desperately trying, to finalize bullet points for a short presentation I’m giving Thursday on stress and the education system. Instead of nicely polishing my documents and printing the flyers I’m handing out,...
" A convergence of compelling evidence has linked toxic early childhood adverse experiences with a lifetime trajectory of serious mental and physical health problems. The biology of adversity supports fundamental shifts in policy and practice across...
"On November 15 th , The National Crittenton Foundation, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty, Inequality & Public Policy, and Human Rights Project for Girls hosted a Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice for Disconnected Girls forum at Georgetown University Law Center. This event launched a new policy series entitled Voices and Visibility for Disconnected Girls: Responding to Trauma. The goal of this new series is to explore the importance of trauma-informed approaches to girls in school, the...
"Non-specialist health workers are beneficial in providing treatment for people with mental, neurological and substance-abuse (MNS) problems in developing countries – where there is often a lack of mental health professionals – according...
"Detailed information is kept on the Trauma and Dissociation Wiki . This project is based on the best academic sources available today. Updates to the wiki, relevant quotes, images and information are posted on the projects ...
"Some of man's best friends are playing an innovative role in the VA Palo Alto Men's Trauma Recovery Program as four-legged therapy for veterans finding their way through the darkness of post-traumatic stress disorder, thanks to Paws for Purple...
Abstract Objective: This preliminary study investigates the neural substrates of empathy-induced pain in multisomatoform pain patients “with vs. without” a history of sexual abuse during childhood. Methods: Using functional magnetic...
" I learned a lot about the meaning of community in Senegal, West Africa where I lived for a few years. One day while I was still learning to speak Mandinka, the language of my village, I asked “How do I say, I am going running (alone, by...
"A new, less confrontational approach to working with families on child neglect and abuse cases may help build stronger families and avoid expensive out-of-family placements in the long run. "But a preliminary report presented here Monday also...
"Sergeant Jackson’s story is not unique, but seems uncommon given the current narrative regarding veterans, war, and mental injury. However, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune, at one veterans’ treatment facility in Chicago,...
"The sex trafficking of minors -- forcing young children to have sex for money -- is a huge, violent business around the world. Here in Los Angeles County alone, the number of pre-teens and teens forced into prostitution is in the ...
"For decades, Egger ran DC Central Kitchen in Washington, a job training program that used donated food from food service companies and farms. Now, he's bringing the concept to Los Angeles and calling it L.A. Kitchen . "This time, we're going...
"More than half of adolescents with psychiatric disorders receive no treatment of any sort, says a new study by E. Jane Costello, a Duke University professor of psychology and epidemiology and associate director of the Duke Center for Child and Family...
"October was National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and as we carry on with holiday preparations, it might be easy to forget that intimate partner violence happens 24/7... every day of the year. It is also important to remember that...
"Fifty-five percent of adult Iowans experience at least one instance of childhood abuse or household dysfunction before the age of 18, according to a new Iowa State University study. “People care about kids and care about health,” said...
"Awareness of child abuse and participation in the Darkness to Light child abuse prevention training with the Child Advocacy Center and the Rutherford County Coalition Against Child Abuse is supported by the District Attorney’s Office for the...
"The rate of child abuse in Israel is higher than it’s ever been, according to a study released by the National Council for the Child on Tuesday. "The product of a collaboration between the University of Haifa, the Traiana...
"The Defense Department’s newly organized child abuse working group will conduct a rapid review of child and domestic abuse and will issue its first report in February. "The group project, which will last a year, was ordered in light of...
"On Monday, the CPS will introduce Hawk, a three-year-old Labrador Retriever, the service’s first trauma dog. "Hawk, and his mild manner, will provide comfort to those who have had witnessed a crime or experienced a traumatic incident....
"The Selby Library hosted the first “Read to Me” event on Saturday, where the children of parents serving sentences in the Sarasota County Jail could listen to a recording of their parent reading a children’s book. "Seventy-five...
"Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs released a report on the most comprehensive data collected on suicide from 1999 through 2010. The study found that the number of suicides among veterans reached 22 a day - a suicide every 65...
"In the former group are many children whose behavior may be annoying or distracting to others, but is not, at its heart, worrisome. Reducing the number of suspensions resulting in lost learning time among those students requires one set of responses...
Abstract Purpose of review: This article addresses three areas in which new research demonstrates the potential to impact the health of children and adolescents: bullying, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and texting to promote behavior change....
"In April 2012, CCADV, in collaboration with Roger D. Fallot, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation with Community Connections in Washington, D.C., offered a two-day trauma kick-off event - . Eleven (11) member programs participated in the...