These letters challenge some conclusions and help round out the discussion started in the June 29 Sunday Review piece “Why Teenagers Act Crazy.” They address when anxiety is caused by societal practices (or by properties of the brain),...
In one photo, a 6-year-old boy stares hauntingly into the camera. Another shows his 14-year-old brother, also with no grin. They are the sons of a father spending decades in prison. There’s a photo of a 16-year-old girl whose brother is...
Professionals and advocates from varied fields including pediatrics, juvenile justice and public health, are hoping California lawmakers pass a resolution acknowledging the harmful effects that ongoing trauma has on a child’s developing brain...
Study found well-nourished, educated women had similarly sized babies, regardless of where they lived and regardless of differences in their race, ethnicity. Babies are babies -- They all need love and care. Around the Globe, Mom's Health Key to...
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa, in partnership with the Iowa Department of Public Health and several other organizations, has developed a couple of new resources to support Iowa professionals in their work around ACEs and child abuse prevention: Learning...
Last Fall I was invited to share with a congregation in Helena, Montana, a bit of what I do as the chaplain at Intermountain. Intermountain is a therapeutic group residential facility where children with severe emotional and relational disturbances...
The CSG Justice Center has created an implementation checklist for school district superintendents that is intended to serve as a complimentary tool to the report. Additional tools and resources related to the report are...
If Milwaukee County is going to slow the revolving door on its psychiatric hospital, it will need more people like Fraser Hartig. Hartig can do what few doctors or nurses can: Speak from experience. "I struggle with my mental illness. They struggle...
Alcohol problems are often undetected in primary care but by asking two simple questions such as the two listed below, GPs could quickly uncover which patients have drinking problems -- including patients who would otherwise remain undetected --...
I recently wrote a post about how difficult it is for many low-income parents to get ahead if they don’t have child care assistance. Our child care system is funded at a level where it isn’t able to serve all working parents who may need...
Dr. Robert K. Ross, President and CEO of The California Endowment, gives a compelling overview of the role that exposure to childhood trauma plays in the lives of troubled and chronically ill Americans, and explains how the CDC's Adverse Childhood...
Photo credit: woodleywonderworks, Flickr This story was produced for ACEs Too High by Rebecca Ruiz and appeared on The Atlantic . Dr. Nicole Brown’s quest to understand her misbehaving pediatric patients began with...
[David Cameron photo by Rex Features] A dossier compiled by an MP detailing allegations of a 1980s Westminster paedophile ring is one of more than 100 potentially relevant Home Office files destroyed, lost or missing, it has emerged. The government faced fresh calls for an overarching inquiry into historical cases of paedophilia as it was revealed that a total of 114 Home Office files relevant to allegations of a child abuse network have disappeared from government records. David Cameron has...
[Photo: Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star] Raised on Tucson’s east side by an abusive parent, Angela Luna entered foster care at age 14. After being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she was put on antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications and stayed on them for seven years. But she says her emotional problems were related to her childhood trauma, not mental illness. The medications numbed her pain and anger, she says, and prevented her from learning how to deal with her...
[Eiko Ojala image] ...It may be possible for institutions to help people set aside their political identities and engage with science more dispassionately under certain circumstances, especially at the local level. Mr. Kahan points, for instance, to the relatively inclusive and constructive deliberations that were conducted among citizens in Southeast Florida about responding to climate change. However, this experience may be hard to replicate – on the Outer Banks of North Carolina,...