The book Resilience and Mental Health is a comprehensive exploration of how resilience occurs, often quite commonly, when one is faced with crises, trauma, and adversity. Edited by Southwick and colleagues, the book cites current research to...
Geneva says, she’s been grabbed, chased, followed, and molested so much in her short life that she’s now made it a habit to lock the bedroom door at night and shove a chair under the knob so no one can come in; she’ll wait up,...
The Oakland Unified School District has begun the school year with a new superintendent, Antwan Wilson, at the helm. The 46,000-student district is the 14th-largest in the state. Unlike the district’s former superintendents in recent...
Abstract Early childhood is an important time for the development of resilience. A recently completed study has followed three cohorts of resilient children and young people living in disadvantaged areas in Victoria, Australia, through different...
[note: this post was originally posted on my site: www.fullhousewithaces.com ] In the beginning... Every religious philosophy has a story about origins and beginnings. In Eastern religions that hold to reincarnation, the cycle of birth-death-rebirth seems to stretch on to eternity in either direction. The key to enlightenment and release from the cycle of rebirth is to see the greater reality beyond the illusory temporal reality. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of...
Children whose parents attended a one-off antenatal class called 'Click’ are at a significant advantage in their cognitive and motor skills compared to children whose parents attended routine antenatal care, according to a new...
The security footage leaked Monday told an ugly truth we had already imagined: Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice struck his then-fiancé, Janay, so hard that she fell unconscious onto an elevator floor. When TMZ aired...
Children who are homeless are at risk for experiencing many complicating issues that impact their physical and emotional health. Unfortunately, this impact can have long term, cumulative effects over the course of a lifetime. The earlier we can...
Combining two medications with parent training appears to improve anger, irritability and violent tendencies in children whose attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is coupled with severe aggression, a new study suggests. "Augmented"...
We don’t always understand the world as well as we imagine, especially when it comes to the effects of public policy.This includes the crime rate and the impact of various interventions on it. Despite our lip service to data driven practices and...
Exposure to air pollution can vary sharply by the ethnic or racial makeup of a community, according to a large, multistate study. The data showed that people living in Hispanic neighborhoods are exposed to more air pollution than those...
"The common conception is that suicide is a problem for high-income countries," says Dr. Shekhar Saxena, director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the World Health Organization. But WHO's first ever report on suicide...
Twenty years ago this week, in 1994, then-President Bill Clinton signed a crime bill. It was, in effect, a long-term experiment in various ways to fight crime. The measure paid to put more cops on the beat, trained police and lawyers to...
Mouse over Groups in the upper navigation bar, then click on Group Directory . That will take you to the Group Directory page , Click on the tab All Groups. To the right of that tab, there's a drop-down menu where you can Sort for...
The “General Theory of Love” (GTL) shows it’s vital to value our mammalian attachment system. We need to stay close to other mammals. This week I've got some great quotes and MP3 audio clips from General Theory, to follow up on Dr....