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Trauma is a complicated experience, and what happens after a traumatic experience even more so. Two people's reaction to trauma may be completely different, and we're learning more about how different and varied those reactions are every day. While many of us are familiar with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, which may develop as a result of acute trauma, the growing body of research around complex PTSD , or C-PTSD, is helping people who may have experienced trauma over a prolonged...

The first few years of life are crucial in establishing a child’s path toward—or away from—health and well-being across the entire lifespan. This report, produced in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco, examines some of the barriers to health equity that begin early in life, and promising strategies for overcoming them. Key Findings Poverty limits childrens’ and families’ options for healthy living conditions. Poverty can limit where children live, and can lead to...

Across the country yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in small towns and big cities to march and voice their opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Demonstrators in more than 700 locations called for the swift reunification of immigrant families separated by border agencies, and an end to the policies that cause so many separations. Collected here, photos from Indianapolis, Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia,...

The phrase “self-harming behavior” may call up images of troubled teenagers with cuts on their arms. But self-injury can occur for people of any age, in children, adolescents and adults, whether male or female. This is not at all a teenage fad! People who self-harm or cut are people who are in pain. We have to notice that. The important thing is to notice the emotional pain — not just the outward expression of it — and view the person using self-harming behaviors with understanding and...

Asia Argento is under sickening attacks following the suicide of her partner, Anthony Bourdain. One of the most vitriolic attacks was by the female writer of an article in Penthouse who talked about ‘toxic femininity’ while bashing Asia and other sexual assault victims. Apparently, in the writer’s view, someone forcing oral sex on you is not sexual assault but transactional sex. Not only is that view unfathomable but it defies belief that women could bash other women and then accuse THEM of...

My co-author and I facilitated our first community talk, “The preventable death of Anna, age eight in New Mexico” yesterday. I’m eager to review my notes. It felt like the beginning of something very important. It’s gratifying to see a book on the data-driven prevention of childhood trauma and maltreatment turning into a catalyst for community dialogue focused on change. We had presentation participants from the child welfare, public health and education sectors and all levels of government.

https://qz.com/1298387/brazils-wildly-ambitious-incredibly-precarious-program-to-visit-every-poor-mother-and-change-their-childrens-destiny/

In adult mice, neurogenesis increases social confidence by suppressing the activity of mature neurons. I f youngsters told their elders to be quiet, stress levels would surely rise. But, when it comes to brain cells, it seems the opposite is true—silencing of old neurons by young ones appears to make an animal more stress resilient. A report today (June 27) in Nature shows that mice whose production of new hippocampal neurons was ramped up suffered less anxiety in a stressful social...

(L-R) Janet Cox, PhD, ACEs Connection member and Atlanta psychologist, Rose Holmes, host of A Closer Look , and Carey Sipp, SE Community Facilitator for ACEs Connection. This week I was a guest on A Closer Look , a news show hosted by journalist Rose Holmes on WABE, the National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate in Atlanta, GA. Psychologist Janet Cox, PhD, joined me on the second segment of the show. We talked about the impact of trauma on children who are separated from their parents, and the...

We at KPJR FILMS are deeply disturbed by the zero tolerance policy used by the current administration at the U.S./Mexico border. Separating children from parents causes deep trauma, toxic stress and unnecessary suffering. We all need to take immediate action to become informed on this matter, use our voices and build advocacy in each of our communities and states.

Victims of human trafficking are subjected to ongoing trauma. Because trauma escapes language and causes memory loss they can carry an untold story inside them that even they can't make sense of or put into words. The more victims/survivors we empower to tell their stories, the more perpetrators will be sent running.

http://www.chicagoreporter.com/trauma-of-witnessing-police-violence-is-not-lost-on-children/