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April 2015
Creating a Cost-Benefit Analysis for Childhood Trauma
A few months ago, the Australian organization, Adults Surviving Child Abuse, published a report that identified how much money the government and the private sector could be saving - $9.1 billion - by acknowledging and addressing child abuse and the...
The Very Real Hardship of Unpredictable Work Schedules [TheAtlantic.com]
On Monday, New York's attorney general announced that he had sent letters to 13 major retailers inquiring about their use of "on-call scheduling," which can make workers responsible for showing up at a moment's notice, or leave them without a...
How the Rhetoric of 'Personal Responsibility' Warps Personal Relationships [PSMag.com]
In America, we often see poverty and hardship as the result of moral failure—or, more kindly, as a failure of social norms. This is why, in 1965, sociologist and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously attributed the prevalence of...
Childhood adversity and subsequent mental health status in adulthood: screening for associations using two linked surveys [Jounrals.Cambridge.org]
Abstract Aims. Accumulating evidence links childhood adversity to negative health outcomes in adulthood. However, most of the available evidence is retrospective and subject to recall bias. Published reports have sometimes focused...
We must work together to prevent child abuse [Missoulian.com]
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. It’s safe to assume that every Montanan is against child abuse. But tragically, it happens all the time, the incidents of child abuse are actually increasing and the impacts of abuse on the most vulnerable...
The Muddied Meaning of ‘Mindfulness’ [NYTimes.com]
Most newly stylish coinages carry with them some evidence of grammatical trauma. Consider “affluencer,” “selfie,” “impactful.” Notes of cynicism and cutesiness come through. But every now and then a bright...
Programming the brain and behaviour by early life stress: A focus on neuroactive steroids [OnlineLibrary.Wiley.Com]
Abstract Animal studies have amply demonstrated that stress exposure during pregnancy or in early post-natal life can adversely influence brain development and have long-term ‘programming’ effects on future brain function and behaviour....
Kalief Browder and a Change at Rikers [NewYorker.com]
Last year, Kalief Browder allowed me to interview him many times about his experience in the New York City criminal-justice system. At sixteen, he had been arrested in the Bronx for a robbery that he insisted he hadn’t committed. He...
Black Lives Matter in Jacob Lawrence's 'Migration Series' at MoMA [CityLab.com]
Jacob Lawrence was a painter, but he was also a storyteller of the first order. In his 1941 masterwork, “Migration Series,” Lawrence (1917-2000) unspools one of the foundational narratives of the modern United States: the journey...
Eulogy Virtues
The stories that have been shared herein recently, e.g., regarding trauma-informed education models, are stories about folks practicing 'eulogy virtues' as defined in this great piece by David Brooks in the New York Times. http://nyti.ms/1Fy2QmR...
Disease Detection Gets A Boost With Plans For A CDC In Africa [NPR.org]
In 1946, a malaria outbreak across the Southern U.S. catalyzed the formation of what would eventually become the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Then in 2002, China's CDC began its operations just as an outbreak of Severe Acute...
Best, Brightest — and Saddest? [NYTimes.com]
I HAD heard about all of the dying, about all of the grief, and still I didn’t immediately understand what I was seeing when, at a railroad crossing here, I spotted a man in a blaring orange vest, the kind that road crews and...
Bombing Survivors Face A World That Still Feels Out Of Control [NPR.org]
It's just the crumb of a muffin, but Martha Galvis must pick it up. Lips clenched, eyes narrowed, she pushes it back and forth across a slick table, then in circles. "I struggle and struggle until," Galvis pauses, concentrating all her...
The All-Work, No-Play Culture Of South Korean Education [NPR.org]
In South Korea, grim stories of teen suicide come at a regular clip. Recently, two 16-year-old girls in the city of Daejeon jumped to their deaths, leaving a note saying, "We hate school." It's just one tragedy in a country where suicide is the...