February 2023

the Village in serving the public is uniquely positioned to address unconscious bias, first by recognizing and acknowledging bias, and secondly by working to reduce bias, both externally and within the government unit itself;

By David Leonhardt, Photo: Annie Flanagan/The New York Times, The New York Times, February 27, 2023 Digital technology has caused the biggest changes to teenage life in many decades. Typical American teenagers spend about half of their waking hours on their smartphones. They are on the phones when they are alone at home and when they are hanging out with friends. When I compare my own teenage years in the 1980s with those of my parents in the 1950s and ’60s, I realize how much more rapidly...

By Richard Sima, Illustration: George Wylesol/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 23, 2023 One in five Americans will experience major depressive disorder in their lifetime, and many will not find relief from current therapies. But now researchers have identified an unexpected source of the problem: inflammation. Inflammation in the body may be triggering or exacerbating depression in the brains of some patients. And clinical trial data suggests that targeting and treating the...

During Black History Month, Gabrielle and Danielle Davenport of BEM | books & more curated a list of the top books about Black food. Composite: HarperOne/Candlewick Press/ Bloomsbury USA By Kayla Stewart, The Guardian, February 25, 2023 F or sisters Gabrielle and Danielle Davenport , every month is a good time to read about Black food. As the owners of Brooklyn’s BEM | books & more , the country’s first book store to focus on the topic, the two sisters are regularly curating works...

By Caitlin Gilbert, Image: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 28, 2023 Do brains peak in childhood? Is it all downhill after 30? Can a 65-year-old brain keep up with an adolescent? While growth charts tracking metrics like height and weight give a relatively clear picture of the range of human physical development, less has been known about the key milestones of normal brain aging. To find out more, an international team of researchers collected brain scan data...

Trauma Informed Health Care Education and Research (TIHCER) Collaborative Presenter : Maurice E. Hicks Jr., Medical and MBA Student at U of Minnesota During this session, Mo will briefly introduce some of the novel ways he has approached building trauma-informed care solutions, before using the rest of the hour to facilitate a discussion on considerations and barriers to TIC implementation. Bio: After graduating from Carleton College with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Mo gained...

By Bob Sege, 2/28/23, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Below is an excerpt from a blog written by HOPE Director Robert Sege for the American Academy of Pediatrics . Dr. Sege discusses the results from a survey that asked over three thousand parents their experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. He shares that even in the face of disaster families were able to find hidden rewards. February 2020 started out like any other winter in Boston – cold and dreary. However, almost...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Race/Cultural Concerns LaBrenz C, Kim Y, Baiden P, et al. State Child Maltreatment Policies and Disparities in Substantiation: A Study of State-Administered...

If we want health, we must promote health. This can seem counterintuitive to those of us who are used to focusing on the dangers and problems we are working to prevent. The Science of the Positive reverses the problem-centered frame: by growing healthy, positive, protective norms, we can decrease risky, harmful, and unhealthy attitudes and behaviors.

Prevalence of low-grade inflammation in depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of CRP levels Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2019 Psychological Medicine , Volume 49 , Issue 12 , September 2019 , pp. 1958 - 1970 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719001454 [Opens in a new window] Abstract Background Peripheral low-grade inflammation in depression is increasingly seen as a therapeutic target. We aimed to establish the prevalence of low-grade inflammation in...

BUILDING RESILIENCY TO TRAUMA, 2ND. EDITION March 6, 2023 Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW, will discuss the second edition of her book, “Building Resiliency to Trauma”, with Dr. Michael Sapp, CEO of the Trauma Resource Institute on the regularly scheduled podcast Monday, March 6 from 1 - 2 p.m. PT During and after a traumatic experience, survivors experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, relational, and spiritual responses that can make them feel unbalanced and...

By Shawna Chen and Erin Doherty, Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios, Axios, February 25, 2023 The first two months of the year have left Asian Americans reeling as they attempt to reconcile their reality with a seemingly unending string of violence — and many are homing in on the lack of mental health care available to some of their most vulnerable. The big picture: Amid recent high-profile attacks and the larger surge in anti-Asian hate , young Asian Americans — for whom the leading cause of...