August 2020

Effectively Navigate Suicide in Clinical Practice! New Online Course: Suicide Risk Assessment & Intervention in Clinical Practice This course includes: ✅ 5 hours on-demand video ✅ 10 articles ✅ 4 downloadable resources ✅ Full lifetime access ✅ Access on mobile and TV ✅ Certificate of completion + PLUS A BONUS! ✅ Access to Arizona Trauma Institute's Exclusive Facebook Group - a place where you can ask questions, get feedback, connect with like-minded professionals and participate in live...

By Tom Temin, August 14, 2020, Federal News Network. If there’s implicit bias or systemic racism in the ranks of the Navy, Naval leadership wants to find out and root it out. That’s the job of Task Force One . Two of the task force members joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin . First, the leader, director of Task Force One, Navy Rear Adm. Alvin Holsey, and supporting the task force is the Navy’s Force Master Chief Huben Phillips. [ Please click here to read more. ] Best listening experience...

By Matthew Fleischer, Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2020 In the summer of 1948, more than 60 residents of the all-white community of Eagle Rock descended upon a home that was poised to sell to a Black family, breaking the neighborhood’s color barrier. The group contained some of the area’s most esteemed businessmen and homeowners, as well as a uniformed police officer. But this was no welcoming party. Upon arrival, the mob set a 12-foot cross aflame and watched it burn . The timing of the...

The purpose of my study entitled Our Heart Study is to understand the factors that increase the risk of heart disease in Black women and the factors that protect them. Health inequities greatly impact Black women in the South. Black women are at risk for poor health outcomes, especially heart disease, because they experience a disproportionate amount of stress related to racism, sexism and often classism.

Who knew when the year started we’d be separated from loved ones for months? And here we are, canceling celebrations, work and vacation plans, and not even hugging our friends. We are facing more stress – financial, emotional, social – than anyone could have imagined. We haven’t seen the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health yet. But as therapists, we know that as chronic stress continues, more people will experience depression and even suicidal thoughts. Let’s not wait to...

Now what? Present social unrest and the COVID crisis are a catalyst to surface the role of how structural racism and historical trauma play in both realities. Currently, Racism is declared a public health crisis in Michigan and prompts a response from all of us. This new lens raises as many questions as answers. How do we create safe spaces to have a conversation about USA history of race, racism, racial dehumanization, racial privilege and power, racial subornation, and exploitation and...

By Lucy Danley, First Five Years Fund, August 5, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated financial challenges that child care providers have faced for years, pushing the industry to the brink of collapse. Anxious parents and struggling child care providers looking for solutions amid a tumultuous and unpredictable economic crisis are looking to Congress to provide the financial relief necessary to keep the industry afloat through America’s economic recovery. Across the country, there is...

21st March 2002, Afghan New Year, was the most humbling and memorable day of my working life. I was coordinating a “Back To School” campaign in the Northern Afghanistan, and the 21st was the target date for opening of schools. This was the first major national reform after after a post-Taliban peace agreement signed a few months earlier. Rebuilding education was seen as a peace dividend for the Afghan people and a symbol of hope for their children on the first day of the first peaceful...

When a young person experiences trauma, there is no single answer regarding how that experience may impact them in their later years. Two 12-year-olds experiencing the exact same kind of trauma, for example, may have two very different responses — one crumbles and the other rises. One processes it deeply and the other suppresses it. One becomes a powerful force for change in the community and the other struggles to make their place in the world. Furthermore, what may be considered traumatic...

So far, in this series on the inner child, we have discussed inner children, and how, when they are wounded, they can affect adult life. We learned that every person has an inner child that is part of our psyche, that is a childish self, inside all of us. There is a model of healing known as doing inner child work. In this article, we shall tackle this subject to understand how we can begin the healing process from having a wounded inner child. What is Inner Child Work? Inner child work is...

By Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones, October 2020 In August 2018, a few weeks after he was shot eight times at a party in Oakland, Andre Reed was recovering at his mom’s house, his wounds still open, when he got a message on Instagram. It was an old friend from his school days. She said some people were looking for him and wanted to talk. Reed, then 35, had recently been released from federal prison, after years of bouncing in and out of the criminal justice system. “Is this the police?” he...

By Manya Whitaker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 27, 2020 As a faculty member preparing for the fall semester, I’ve been thinking a lot about trauma-informed teaching amid Covid-19. But I’m also one of those academics who wears multiple hats — in my case, department chair and interim director of a multicultural center. And I’ve realized that I need to offer trauma-informed leadership, too. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of being in a management position right now is balancing...