Sound, music and guided imagery have played an important role in my healing. I honestly don’t think healing would have happened in the absence of sound therapy. I have been taking doses of healing sounds in the morning, afternoon, evening and night.
For many children, the transition to a traditional elementary school setting, whether it be from home or a pre-school environment, represents a radical discontinuity - not just in terms of their physical environment, but on multiple levels, including values, behavioral and learning expectations, teacher attitudes, emotional support, etc. What if, in line with the latest neuroscientific discoveries about brain maturation, we were to re-envision early childhood education as commencing at birth...
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When Paul Kugelman was a kid, he had no shortage of friends. But as he grew older and entered middle age, his social world narrowed. "It was a very lonely time. I did go to work and I did have interactions at work, and I cherished those," he says. "But you know, at the end of the day it was just me." Kugelman's story isn't unusual: researchers say it can be difficult for men to hold on to friendships as they age. And the problem may begin in adolescence. New York University psychology...
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee unanimously approved The Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 Act on April 24. Significant provisions were included from the Heitkamp-Durbin Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Act (S. 774), including creation of a task force on trauma, and grants for trauma-informed schools.
On April 21-22 nd , a group of about 60 representatives of tribes, non-profit organizations, reservation schools, and others gathered at the Wellington Ranch, a lovely oasis in the middle of the Gila River Reservation in Arizona, to discuss and experience traditional and western practices for healing historical and childhood trauma. The agenda nourished both the brain and the spiritual side, the combination that is needed in order to combat historical and childhood trauma that pervades so...
Many years ago, I found a dead body. It was a man I had been dating for a few months, who had turned out to have even more problems than I knew when I met him. He showed up at my house high on something one night and I made him leave. I told him we could talk about it in the morning and locked the door, unplugged the phone, went to sleep. In the morning I stopped by his apartment as promised. The door was unlocked so I went in and found him, face down. As I write this, my heart is pounding,...
When caregivers are better informed about trauma their clients have experienced, they can create better outcomes for their clients. Representatives from organizations around the Panhandle attended a workshop on Friday to learn more about trauma informed care and the positive impacts it can create. Through lectures, videos and group work, participants got an understanding of how trauma affects the developing brain. [For more on this story by IRENE NORTH, go to...
For the past 18 months, many political scientists have been seized by one question: Less-educated whites were President Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters. But why, exactly? Was their vote some sort of cri de coeur about a changing economy that had left them behind ? Or was the motivating sentiment something more complex and, frankly, something harder for policy makers to address? After analyzing in-depth survey data from 2012 and 2016, the University of Pennsylvania political scientist...
Today, about 40,000 mobile home parks exist across the United States. They were critical to filling housing shortages during World War II and even more so after the end of the war. They have the potential to create opportunities for low-income housing, yet many mobile home parks are in danger of erasure from our cultural landscape. Eduard Krakhmalnikov, a preservationist and landscape architect, has a passion for these often-overlooked places. His research on mobile home parks was featured...
For more information, or to register for this webinar, click here . Overview This second series of on-line continuing education presentations will inform participants of what we know about withdrawing from psychiatric medications. This set of 8 monthly webinars will focus on the views of internationally recognized psychiatrists and begin on June 19 with a town hall session hosted by Robert Whitaker with 3 participants. One will be a person with lived experience in withdrawing, the second and...
The Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc. (ATN) is seeking workshop proposals from the experts in the field of creating trauma-sensitive schools. Our 2nd Annual Conference for Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools will be Feb 17-19, 2019 and will include 75 workshops -- with room for a limited number of "deep dive" 3-hour sessions. We're expecting 800 or more education professionals from across the US, Canada and other countries. Our 2018 conference had educators from 38 states and 4 countries.
For two hours, the guest speaker talked about various traumas children may experience and how they can impact a person for the rest of his or her life. But Allison Sampson–Jackson also shared a message of hope. She stressed that those who have been abused or neglected—or have seen loved ones put in jail or struggle with substance abuse and mental health issues—can develop skills to retrain the way the brain responds. Those traumatized don’t have to face higher incidences of suicide or poor...
Ohio, a state where 4,329 people died of drug overdoses in 2016 , a death rate second only to neighboring West Virginia, is taking the fight against the opioid epidemic into the classroom with a new style of drug-abuse-prevention education. Ohio’s plan, controversial in a state that prizes local control over schools, features lessons that begin in kindergarten. Instead of relying on scare tactics about drug use or campaigns that recite facts about drugs’ toll on the body, teachers are...
As the judge climbed the watchtower stairs in Pelican Bay prison, he heard muffled gunshots below. When he reached the top, he looked into the prison yard and saw bodies lying in the dirt. One was his law clerk, spreadeagled on the ground in his suit, alongside dozens of inmates. Guards stood over them, guns aimed. “My clerk was thinking he’s gonna die and this is his last day on earth,” Judge Thelton Henderson recalled. What appeared to be the taming of a riot was actually an audacious...