December 2015

Every child who walks into Judge Mary Ann Turner 's courtroom gazes upon a large painting of a waterfall flowing between thickets of trees painted in bright hues of blue, yellow and green. The landscape was created by kids and stands as a...

For the month of November, your Partner for Healing has been sharing the books that made all the difference. If you read these four books you work will be transformed. They are:   Building the Bonds of Attachment by Daniel Hughes The Boy who was...

  Sometime  between 11 am ET and 9 pm ET Wednesday, Dec. 2 ,  ACEsConnection.com will go offline .  Two hours later, it will reappear  with a new look. Most of the functions — posting a blog, a calendar event, navigating...

  Local jails in the United States serve an estimated 2 million people with serious mental illnesses each year. Three out of four incarcerated individuals also suffer from a substance use disorder. Once incarcerated, these individuals tend to...

  Methylphenidate—better known by its brand name, Ritalin—has long been a popular and controversial drug. It treats attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, diagnoses of which have  risen sharply  over the past...

  Neuroscience has revealed in recent years that trauma resulting from adverse childhood events can actually change the brain — for the worse — of a developing child. And their thought processes and behaviors can become impaired as a...

  As Dr. Jay Fisher enters Patient Room 12, a 14-year-old boy with curly, brown hair smiles sheepishly from the bed. Dressed in a green hospital gown, he’s quiet — calm even. Gabe is a ninth-grader, big brother, budding chef, Tom...

  Childhood mental illness and  obesity  are significant public health concerns in the US. Since they start in childhood, preventive and early intervention approaches are needed. Pet dogs have been linked with health benefits for...

  When I was younger, I’d have to make an excuse to leave the room whenever sex scenes came on the television. I learned to sniff out at a bedroom scene within 30 seconds and escape to make tea, or feign a yawn and head off to bed. There...

Mental health courts sound like a great idea—just like the drug courts that inspired them. People with psychiatric disorders often have difficulty controlling their behavior; if you treat them effectively, you’ll reduce crime and the need...

  Sometime between 11 am ET and 9 pm ET Wednesday, Dec. 2 ,  ACEsConnection.com will go offline . Two hours later, it will reappear with a new look. Most of the functions — posting a blog, a calendar event, navigating around the site...

A rapid descent because of the trauma load you carry can be very short. That's what happened to Alaska Native Joseph Murphy in Juneau, Alaska. His death at the hands of the Alaska Department of Corrections was revealed when Governor Walker revealed an...