A state program to provide a permanent means for women military veterans living in Texas to receive health and parental benefits is advancing in the House and Senate. If the legislation is eventually approved and signed into law by Gov. Greg...
Thx to all brave politicians and dedicated service providers who have brought trauma informed care to the communities they serve.
I bet a few high ACE scoring people can relate :) I didn’t believe I could be me , who required a flow chart and three hours to explain my family or origin “situation” and who also had anxiety at times. I couldn’t think...
“Locked [In]” a new poem by Gabriel Cortez , “depicts the disturbing reality that many youth face in solitary confinement.” The poem was commissioned by Off/Page , a collaboration between Reveal (from The Center for Investigative Reporting) and Youth Speaks . It builds on the investigative work of Trey Bundy and Daffodil Altan into solitary confinement of youth on Rikers Island. Cortez used the article as inspiration, then...
Las Vegas is back, baby. After getting slammed by the Great Recession, the city today is seeing rising home sales, solid job growth and a record number of visitors in 2014.stru But the economic rebound has exacerbated the city's severe school...
The images from Baltimore of demonstrations, police in riot gear, looting and outbreaks of violence are familiar to some other cities after encounters with police ended in death for unarmed individuals — primarily black men. Officials say...
By all accounts, I’d been enjoying the conversation. We were two pina coladas apiece in, and between us had covered the breadth of holiday small talk. The weather, the flight over, the cult of the Kardashians, to name but a few. Then...
Experts say exposure to trauma and other significant stress early in life can have profound effects on children’s development and the way they see the world. Those running Connecticut’s Medicaid program see the impact in...
Here are some guidelines for behavior management in foster care. They are only meaningful when imbedded in a context of training, supervision and support. 1. This approach to behavior management is based on the understanding that problem...
A nice walk through a city park can do wonders for a work-weary brain, reducing mental fatigue and improving attention. But if you're trapped on the high floors of an office tower all day, you can't exactly break for a long stroll...
Last December a Senate Intelligence Committee report revealed how two psychologists were involved in shaping the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” methods, using psychologist Martin Seligman's theory of learned helplessness to justify...
"I kept doing the body scan to feel calm," a fifth grade student explained to my colleagues as he recollected coping with a stressful situation at home. A "body scan" involves checking in with your body and noticing how it feels in the present...
A majority of American adults say they've tried dieting to lose weight at some point in their lives, and at any given time, about one-third of the adult population say they're currently dieting. Yet 60 percent of American adults are...
Anxiety disorders affect approximately one in six adult Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. The most well-known of these include panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and...
Adults who experienced multiple incidents of childhood maltreatment were more than two times as likely to have trouble sleeping than their counterparts who were not maltreated during childhood, according to a new study from researchers at the...