Current trends at New York City's island jail indicate that not only are mentally ill prisoners not receiving the treatment they need, but they are also being further traumatized. After being arrested on a misdemeanor charge following a family dispute...
This article expands upon our understanding of the relationship between stress and weight-gain. Why you shouldn't reward yourself with a donut after a long day You might think that on a high-intensity stressful day would cause you to burn more...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons An online publication in the Journal of American Medical Association Pediatrics estimated one in eight American children — roughly 12 percent — experience maltreatment before the age of 18. According...
Credit: Kate McLaughlin, University of Washington "The area of the brain that plays a primary role in emotional learning and the acquisition of fear – the amygdala – may hold the key to who is most vulnerable to post-traumatic stress...
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...
Riverside County wants to start over at a place where many a wayward youth started over. County officials plan to spend up to $32.9 million – $24.69 million coming from Sacramento – to tear down and rebuild the Van Horn Youth Treatment and...
French economist Thomas Piketty sparked a global debate on inequality by arguing that the wealthy pull ahead by reaping disparate rewards from financial capital. He may be missing the human half of the story. When defining capital, Piketty...
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has shown that chronic stress of poverty, neglect and physical abuse in early life may shrink the parts of a child’s developing brain responsible for memory, learning and processing emotion....
Research shows that when a combat veteran with PTSD returns home, it can have consequences on a child's personality Mark Trepanier spends likes to spend time with the chickens he keeps in the back yard. “It’s a barometer for my stress...
"Children with developmental disabilities are at higher risk for abuse and neglect from parents than children developing at a typical rate. So far, there was little evidence of specific parental behaviors that were associated with the risk, but a SLU...
"L ow-income mothers and their first-born children who received home visits from nurses were less likely to die from preventable causes during a two-decade period studied by a University of Colorado School of Medicine professor, according to a report...
Do many health and human service workers have adverse childhood experiences (ACEs ) in their background? How does that affect their work? Those questions arose after the Sonoma County (CA) Department of Health Services hosted several presentations...
London — This is normally a languid time of year in Westminster, with Parliament winding down for the long summer holiday. But this season, it has been anything but. Last week saw the British government announce a pair of...
One state has found a way to significantly reduce teen pregnancy rates. But is its solution realistic for the rest of the United States? Colorado's teen birth rate dropped 40 percent between 2009 and 2013, the Colorado Department of Public Health and...
As common as traumatic experiences may be, there is far too little education right now on the best ways to help families work through them. Nelba Márquez-Greene is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent her life helping others....