February 2019

This Oregon School Boards Association article details testimony from two trauma informed schools pilot projects in Oregon. Here is the article .

People who experienced early trauma show common patterns in the way they form attachments. Among all the the long-term outcomes associated with ACEs, the damage to the way we seek and form romantic relationships can be one the most devastating, yet one of the least discussed. As a survivor, I had to learn a systematic way to change this, and after years of informally teaching hundreds of peers to heal the pattern and use a structured approach to dating , I've just put it all into an online...

Tracie Mason has lived in Spartanburg, South Carolina all her life. Despite a recent uptick in growth and development, Spartanburg maintains its close-knit sense of community and rural atmosphere. It is one of the things Mason loves most about Spartanburg, which was named one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 2015 Culture of Health communities. At 14, Mason became pregnant with her first child. After struggling to maintain a job, attend school, and care for her daughter all at once,...

“Smart, Safe, and Fair: Strategies to Prevent Youth Violence, Heal Victims of Crimes, and Reduce Racial Inequality,” published through a collaboration between the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) and the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) addresses how to help youth involved in violent crime — both offenders and victims. Confinement of youth convicted of crimes has decreased; however, violent crime convictions have not. The report shows that confinement of youth is more expensive and...

On Sunday, February 17, educators and immigrant rights advocates, organized by Teachers Against Child Detention, are hosting a Teach-In for Freedom in El Paso, Texas. El Paso is a U.S.-Mexico border city 30 miles from the now-closed Tornillo Detention Center that, until recently, held 3,800 children. The Teach-In for Freedom, initiated by 2018 Teacher of the Year Mandy Manning, is one part of the TACD’s Call to Action. In addition to the Teach-In for Freedom, during which educators and...

Binge drinking in adolescence has been shown to have lasting effects on the wiring of the brain and is associated with increased risk for psychological problems and alcohol use disorder later in life. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics have shown that some of these lasting changes are the result of epigenetic changes that alter the expression of a protein crucial for the formation and maintenance of neural connections in the...

This story is part of a series about how schools, teachers and students are coping with the immigration crisis. PATCHOGUE, N.Y. — Wilda Rosario’s support groups for immigrant students at Patchogue-Medford High School usually start out with lots of laughter. That’s just how teenagers are, she says. But it doesn’t take too long for conversations to turn serious with this group of kids, most of them children seeking asylum from violence in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. During an...

See previous 74 interviews: Criminologist Nadine Connell on the data on school shootings, Teacher of the Year Nate Bowling on the push to arm educators, and more. The full archive is right here . D rama students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were in the middle of rehearsal when the shooting began. With a “code red” blaring over the intercom, drama teacher Melody Herzfeld and her students sought shelter in a nearby storage closet. The February 2018 shooting in Parkland left 17 dead...

A new study by researchers at Yale and Georgia State University found that explicit gender stereotypes may bias physicians’ assessments of children’s pain. The team found that under identical clinical circumstances and identical reactions of pain, a male child was rated as experiencing more pain than a female one. Led by philosophy and psychology joint doctoral student Brian Earp GRD ’22, the paper was published on Jan. 4 in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. “Pain is an inherently private...

How can you tell when you meet a truly happy person? What signs do you look for? What indicates to you that someone is truly content with their life and themselves? Genuinely happy people: [For more on this story by Rachel Fintzy Woods, MA, LMFT, go to https://blogs.psychcentral.com/cultivating-contentment/2019/01/26-characteristics-of-truly-happy-people/]

ACEs, Adversity's Impact Early adverse life events, severity of trauma linked to irritable bowel syndrome Traumatic stress can lead to depression when it interferes with daily activities, study finds Transgender identity and experiences of violent victimization, substance use, suicide risk, and sexual risk behaviors among high school students - 19 states and large urban school districts, 2017 California's new surgeon general changed the way we understand childhood trauma Trauma before we can...

It turns out the old saying about sticks and stones breaking bones but words never hurting is bunk. According to research newly published in the peer-reviewed Early Childhood Research Quarterly, emotional bullying in the preschool years hurts quite a lot. When a child both bullies and gets bullied, the findings are especially clear: Depression symptoms begin to appear as early as age 3. Depression in early childhood increases the risk of depression in later childhood, which predicts...