Rebecca Ruiz did this overview and Q-and-A. This spring, a group of more than 160 mental health professionals, resilience-building specialists and mindfulness teachers officially launched the International Transformational Resilience Coalition ....
Mealtime. Naptime. Bath time. Bedtime. Everything is on a schedule for residents in a traditional nursing home, leaving little flexibility for personal decision making. But LaVrene Norton is working to change that. Norton is founder and...
[Photo: Katrin Wuertemberger/Bongarts/Getty Images] Stress has been shown to age us. Meditation might turn that around. ...In the decade since [Elizabeth] Blackburn and [Elissa] Epel's original study, the idea that stress ages us by eroding our telomeres has also permeated popular culture. ...But as evidence of the damage caused by dwindling telomeres piles up, she is embarking on a new question: how to protect them. ..."Ten years ago, if you'd told me that I would...
...It took the college just 12 days to investigate the rape report, hold a hearing and clear the football players. The football team went on to finish undefeated in its conference, while the woman was left, she said, to face the consequences —...
[Photo: Armando L. Sanchez for the New York Times] On its surface, the Affordable Care Act seems like a boon for addiction treatment centers like the South Suburban Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, housed in a no-frills former hotel outside Chicago. The law allowed states to expand Medicaid to many more low-income people, meaning that drug addicts and alcoholics who were previously ineligible could now receive coverage for substance abuse treatment, which the law has deemed an...
https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Heal-For-Life-Foundation/483537561704946?ref_type=bookmark http://www.healforlife.com.au/ Heal For Life Foundation began as one person’s dream to meet a very specific need; to establish a safe...
My article -- “Abuse: Child and Spousal", (which I had subtitled "Reframing Childhood Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence as Public Health Crises") -- appears as page one in Volume 1 of the three volume Encyclopedia of Health Communication...
The detailed guide Children’s Budget 2014 , issued on June 24 by First Focus ( www.firstfocus.net ), reports that only about 8 percent of the federal budget is invested in children. Furthermore, over a five-year period, real overall funding for...
In August 2010 I learned chunks of my brain weren’t firing due to adult attachment disorder from infancy. I thought I was a goner and almost drove off this freeway overpass. Yeah it's the I-91 near Anaheim, CA. It was no trip to Disneyland...
This study expands our understanding of how stress links to poor health outcomes. Higher levels of stress, hostility and depressive symptoms are associated with significantly increased risk of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) in middle-age...
Senators Booker and Paul proposed juvenile justice reform, including ending juvenile solitary confinement, that may create a more trauma-informed juvenile justice system. Two first-term senators from opposite sides of the aisle introduced...
Although all ACEs Connection members want to be well informed about recent news and trauma, be careful and aware of the effects that exposure to these topics can have on your own stress. If you're feeling stressed these days, the news media may be...
Photo Source: BBC News A co mplex understanding of women who kill their children can help to reduce occurrences of these events. Research by the University of Huddersfield's Dr Helen Gavin will make an impact on psychiatrists,...
Thanks to Judge Bruce Peterson for an excellent opinion piece about truly creating public policy based on personal responsibility by addressing the ACEs research . "The upright go upward? If only it were so easy: Personal responsibility is too narrow...
How might a virtual person be better (or worse) to get people to open up about ACEs? When we feel down and find ourselves at the doctor's office for help, the best person to get us to open up about our problems isn't a person at all. It's a computer....