The Winter 2014 issue of Trauma Matters is out. It's published by the Connecticut Women’s Consortium and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services in support of the Connecticut Trauma Initiative. The lead...
...some legislators still think the best way to discourage certain behaviors is to jack the cost of engaging in that behavior through the roof. ...Legislators basically said the same thing about drugs in the 1980s. That decision led to...
In December 2012, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, did a one-hour interview with Dr. Gabor Maté. It's old, but Because it's not on Vimeo or YouTube, this can't be added to the video section. Although this is a year old, it's an interesting...
El Dorado Elementary School Principal Silvia Cordero announces one of the winners of the weekly student-of-the-week award. ____________________________ For one young student – let’s call him Martin -- the 2012-2013 school year at El Dorado...
...In addition, the two groups of early achievers is especially revealing about the importance of effective parenting," she [Iheoma Iruka, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute associate director of research and the study's lead author] said. "African American boys from homes where mothers frequently engaged in literacy activities and intentional teaching—and other activities like playing games and taking the child on errands—were likely to be in the high achieving...
Messages that describe obesity as a disease may undermine healthy behaviors and beliefs among obese individuals, according to a new study published in Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The findings show...
Smile At Your Baby! is a licensed non-profit corporation in the State of WA. I am it's founder and executive director. I am also the foster-adoptive mother of a brilliant and beautiful 12-year-old daughter who was severely neglected very...
Alcohol use is more likely than marijuana use to lead to violence between partners, according to studies done at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Research among college students found that men under the influence of alcohol are more likely...
Researchers at Duke Medicine report that health care costs increase in parallel with body mass measurements, even beginning at a recommended healthy weight. Pharmacy and medical costs may even double for obese people compared with those at a healthy...
Each year, meditation becomes more of a trend. Celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld and Goldie Hawn , businessmen like Bill George of Goldman Sachs and Exxon Mobil, and News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch ,...
A new pilot program at Four County Counseling Center is using preventive measures to identify children experiencing trauma that may lead to chronic illnesses. Integrated and Coordinated Child and Adolescent Psychiatry uses the Adverse Childhood...
Why is Echo Parenting & Education convening a conference on developmental trauma? What is developmental trauma anyway? Ah! Glad you asked! Developmental trauma is what we all know as Adverse Childhood Experiences. Dr. Bruce Perry and the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University have been talking about this stuff for ages. Unfortunately, the diagnostic manual for the mental health field, the DSM, hasn't caught up. They have 'complex trauma' but no real recognition that complex...
Five homicides involving domestic violence have happened in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson so far this year. In 2012, 25 of the 84 homicides within Las Vegas police’s jurisdiction were related to a domestic dispute. In 2013, that...
In infants and toddlers, physical abuse is the cause of 12 percent to 20 percent of fractures. In a revised clinical report, “ Evaluating Children With Fractures for Child Physical Abuse ,” in the February 2014 Pediatrics (published online...