School is out on a Wednesday and the dean of students' office at Facing History High School is full, but these kids aren't here for detention. Dean Courtney Robinson, who has thick arms covered with tattoos and hair pulled back into a braided bun,...
Depression is the top global cause of illness and disability for adolescents, with suicide the third-biggest cause of death, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The finding is in a new report by the UN agency, which has pulled together a...
Which will it be — the berries or the chocolate dessert? Homework or the Xbox? Finish that memo, or roam Facebook? Such quotidian decisions test a mental ability called cognitive control, the capacity to maintain focus on an important choice...
Working Title: Trauma Informed Care Coordinator - DHFS Div of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Degree and area of specialization: Bachelor's Degree in Social Work or related field. Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience: Preferably, 2 years experience working promoting, training and advocating for the implementation of trauma-informed care in mental health, substance abuse and/or human services settings, or implementing a trauma-informed care system in a human...
"Should my child go to counseling?" This is a question that gets asked by nearly all parents at some point. But it's the wrong question. The right question is, "Should the family go to counseling?" Whatever the issue, a child's family is a critical...
A new study says bullying can affect children not just for a few years, but well into middle age. It’s more evidence of why prompt intervention to bullying is so important. One mother and her teenage son dealt with bullying for years before...
Nearly 615,000 teen pregnancies occur each year in the United States, but historically low rates reported this week may prove that those “free condom” baskets at health center waiting rooms are actually working. Statistics released...
Many teens from lower- and middle-income homes get too little sleep, potentially adding to the problems of some kids already at risk for health issues, new research finds. The study of 250 high school students found they slept an average of six hours...
Technical writer and author of "Don't Try This at Home: The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder." Website: AttachmentDisorderHealing.com Survived a 30-year career in fast lanes of New York and Washington; loves brain science, wants to alert...
New statistics show Ohio ranks among the worst when it comes to newborn deaths. As Statehouse correspondent Andy Chow reports, legislators say there’s a program that could help. but it needs start-up money from the state. Ohio leaders are...
"Good" and "evil" always seem like handy labels, especially when describing those involved in incidents of child sexual abuse. So depending on your point of view, I was either blessed or cursed by lessons I learned 25 years ago from Roger, a...
www.facebook.com/Smile.At.Your.Baby is looking for a few new board members. We would very much like to talk with potential candidates that are pediatricians or neurologists, but are open to other professional experience as well. Smile At...
North Carolina is facing a very big mental health care challenge — 28 counties across the state do not have a single psychiatrist. That's despite the fact that in recent years, emergency rooms in the state have seen more patients with mental...
New research indicates that children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder may be more likely to be part of families that are affected by poverty, divorce, neighborhood violence and substance abuse. "Our findings suggest that children with...
For most of us, early childhood memories resemble videos posted on Vine: brief, random snippets of various times, places and people. But our difficulty recalling our earliest life moments isn’t a result of diminishing brainpower; quite the...