Caroline Hickman will discuss developing a climate & bio-diversity crisis lens through which therapy can respond to these emerging concerns as well as how dreams and the imaginal are increasingly revealing what is under the surface of people’s climate distress.
Music can be medicine. The award winning song "Lift You Up" is meant to be heard and shared. It's also raising funds for Backline, the not-for-profit organization that offers mental health services and resources for musicians and their families. I am a child psychiatrist, poet, and artist. I was inspired to write the poem, "Lift You Up," upon hearing of the suicide death of beloved country music singer Naomi Judd, so I thought it only right that the song it became also be used on behalf of...
By Jason Wu, Illustration: Celia Jacobs/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, October 6, 2022 Researchers have found that pandemic experiences of racial discrimination were associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression . This was certainly true for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the past few years, who endured bigotry and racist attacks after President Donald Trump labeled the coronavirus the “Chinese virus.” As an Asian therapist, I witnessed firsthand the effect...
By Julian Agyeman, Photo: The Guardian, The Guardian, October 6, 2022 “Equity is not an issue for us. We’re here to save the world.” From 1986 to 1990, I worked in an inner London borough as an environmental policy adviser. I worked on raising awareness of local environmental issues, paying special attention to those affecting the borough’s lower-income residents. There were very few jobs such as this in local government, and I was the only Black person employed in one. Unlike the US, in...
By Laura Gallant, 10/6/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center is now accepting applications for the third round of our HOPE Innovation Network (HIN). The HOPE Innovation Network is an opportunity for organizations to work with the HOPE National Resource Center to make HOPE-informed changes in their organizations. At least one person will represent their organization to work on implementing the changes. Our third HIN cohort will take place from...
Note - We're reposting this PACEs Science Champion feature by Laurie Udesky, from November 16, 2021, to share more about the life and work of Dan Press, who died yesterday. He was our remarkable friend and partner in preventing and healing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and promoting healthier, more compassionate, more resilient communities. Please see this post by Jesse Kohler for more information about Press, his life and legacy. In 1964, Dan Press was in his first year of law school...
Join us on October 7th at 1:00 est for a preview of James Moffett will present at the upcoming Compliance to Compassion event on 14th. This will be broadcast live on Facebook YouTuber and LinkedIn.
The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) is saddened to announce that our co-founder and counsel Daniel Press passed away yesterday after a long battle with lung cancer. Dan fought hard and never stopped working, despite his declining health. His love and passion for the trauma-informed movement inspired so many lives. He was fiercely dedicated to supporting advocates across the country, working tirelessly to promote healing and resilience. Over 40 years of advocacy and...
October's See Us, Support Us (SUSU) month of awareness raising about and for children of incarcerated parents began October 1, 2022. This October, SUSU focuses on supporting children of incarcerated parents’ physical health and emotional wellbeing. Anyone who works with children and families in health settings and beyond is encouraged to follow SUSU on Twitter / Instagram and to sign up for the SUSU Network newsletter to learn how to support children of incarcerated parents, connect with...
By Roni Caryn Rabin, Photo: Brian L. Frank/The New York Times, The New York Times, October 5, 2022 Over the past 50 years, medical advances have led to a more sophisticated understanding of the causes of Type 2 diabetes and to an abundance of new tools for managing it. But better treatments have done little to stem the rise of the disease. One in seven American adults has Type 2 diabetes now, up from one in 20 in the 1970s. Many teenagers are developing what was once considered to be a...
By Anna Cooban, CNNBusiness, October 4, 2022 It wasn’t hard for Samantha Losey, managing director of Unity, a public relations firm in London, to convince her team to work fewer hours for the same paycheck. But it was an uphill battle to persuade her own board to join the world’s biggest pilot of the four-day work week. “I had to fight very hard for us to do this as a business… nobody was willing. Everyone was very traditionalist,” Losey told CNN Business. [ Please click here to read more .]
By Meghan Daum, Photo: David Williams/The New York Times, The New York Times, October 4, 2022 Meghan Daum: The home page of the Conservative Therapists site says: “Half of Americans have conservative values, yet approximately 90 percent of therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists are guided by a liberal or even socialist value system, creating a barrier for conservatives who would prefer talking with a professional who supports their values.” Does that sound right to you? Do you feel...
We are so excited to launch Season 2 with author, psychologist, and former Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ventriloquist Susan Linn. We interview Dr. Susan Linn about her new book, Who’s Raising the Kids: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children. It turns out we've all been indoctrinated from a young age to value buying things due to the United States' lax child protection policies for advertising. Here's Susan Linn on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood early in her career. The show ran from...
Establishing safety at work is one of the most important aspects of creating a trauma-informed workplace, but creating safety is easier said than done. When we discuss trauma-informed beliefs, practices, and values, we often explore big-picture concepts and systems. While this is an essential piece of the work, sharing specific, actionable steps can often improve our understanding better than big-picture ideas can. Here are some concrete and relatively simple ways to create safety at work,...
By Claire Cain Miller, Photo: Timothy Mulcare/The New York Times, The New York Times, October 1, 2022 The pandemic, at first, left many American parents feeling stranded, cut off from school and other support systems. But then something momentous happened. The government invested billions of dollars in children, including cash payments to families, free school meals and money for child care centers and public schools. In 2021, the federal government spent $10,710 per child, through a mix of...