High rates of suicide among military service members and veterans may be related to traumatic experiences they had before enlisting, making them more vulnerable to suicidal behavior when coping with combat and multiple deployments, according to the...
The dad and his wife had decided to try “attachment parenting” with their newborn son. That meant they slept in bed with their son every night, fed him milk every time he cried, and carried him everywhere they went in a baby sling. Though...
For you who have been traumatized, Bessel van der Kolk is my HERO… He knows psychological trauma… This may not be the most important post presented but he has a new book coming out "The body keeps the score". It has already been...
Braden Swenson wanders into a semi-rickety wooden shed on his search for gold, treasure and riches. "Is there any tweasure in here?" he asks in the endearing dialect of a 4-year-old. "I've been looking everywhere for them. I can't find any." The...
When we last left Stewart the 92-year-old lawyer in Dan Siegel’s office June 25 , “the presenting problem was: his wife got sick, and he became more socially withdrawn… losing himself in his books,” Siegel said....
"When trauma happens, it changes a person, but children are particularly vulnerable because they're going through key developmental stages," she said. "So the earlier someone is traumatized, the more profound an effect it has on them." A new report...
The more fit middle-school girls are, the less likely they may be to develop symptoms of depression, according to a recent study. Although the effect of fitness on depression was small, improvements in fitness may be part of an overall strategy for...
Many of the Central American children who have entered the U.S illegally in recent months have come with a heavy burden — a history of hardship and violence. And many of the children now face difficult and uncertain futures. This has social...
In the U.S. we usually consider prisons and jails to be violent places, as if there were no alternative. We imagine that because violent people are sent there it is a foregone conclusion that violence will happen. What we often overlook is the...
Spanking study: http://news.discovery.com/human/videos/spanking-kids-makes-them-lawbreakers-video.htm Ibuprofin's effects on men and women and emotional pain: ...
Rather than challenge President Obama's birth origins, folks might want to rank his ACE score. Totally absent father, mother drops him off for years with white grandparents in a city where black children are a distinct minority, mother remarries and...
Of course, children shouldn’t be abused, physically or in any other way. Nevertheless, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that 1,600 children die annually from abuse and neglect. Close to 700,000 suffer from non-fatal...
Beating a drug habit is usually a long process that includes talk therapy and, sometimes, medicine. Checking into a rehab facility can help many people, too. But it can be hard to persuade someone to commit to that long-term treatment. So public...
The first time Jeremy Clark met his 18-year-old client, the teenager was sitting in his vice principal’s office, the drawstrings of his black hoodie pulled tight. Jacob had recently disclosed to his friends on Facebook that he was hearing...
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) has released Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 57 “Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services.” The document (342 pages) is downloadable along with the 279-page...