The survey, commissioned by national charity YoungMinds... questioned 2,000 children and young people aged 11 to 25, found: • More than half of school pupils believe they will be a failure if they don't achieve good exam grades • A...
A new study found that children who were bullied during P.E. class or other physical activities were less likely to participate in physical activity one year later. Overweight or obese children who experienced teasing during physical activity had a...
Many people have said that at the very heart of understanding adverse childhood experiences is that love is the cure and the prevention. Not just love manifested in the caring of one individual for another, whether that be parent to child, friend to...
“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life,” the president told the New...
The participants have a history of domestic violence. The most serious charge for a prisoner in the class was attempted murder and elevated aggravated assault against a partner, she said. Wotton said she believes the program impacted the...
Dr. Mike Rosmann wrote this for Iowa Farmer Today: One of the ways my wife, Marilyn, and I like to help our adult children is by providing childcare for their infants so the parents can return to their professions. We spent several weeks during the...
A book to help very young children cope with the trauma of domestic violence is about to go global. Written by Wiltshire trauma parenting specialist Jane Evans, How Are You Feeling Today Baby Bear ? is to be published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers...
An editorial in the Columbus Dispatch from Tracy Plouck, director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services: Im pleased to report that mental health is a key area of focus in Ohios public-policy agenda. With Gov. John Kasichs leadership, our state recently extended health benefits (including access to mental-health and addiction treatment) for low-income Ohioans. This is a huge step forward for people who are working and paying taxes, but...
Thousands of fans will descend on New York and New Jersey for Super Bowl XLVIII — and experts say human traffickers will be lurking behind them. The criminals, as with past Super Bowls, hope to use the large crowds to sell people forced into...
Stacey Lannert, an abuse awareness advocate, gave four lectures at the Fulton State Hospital yesterday, sharing her story of abuse and life after murdering her abuser — her alcoholic father. “She has a message of hope,” Marty...
The Missouri Department Of Social Service’s Children’s Division is in charge of investigating accusations of child abuse and neglect. But, according to the Springfield News-Leader , the agency is short of money and...
The statistics were compiled from the Vatican's own annual reports about the activities of its various offices, including the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handles sex abuse cases. Although public, the annual reports are not...
I’m going to tell you the cure for Attachment Disorder and its many related ills in this simple two-part blog. But as the good witch Glenda told Dorothy, you won’t believe me until you experience it for yourself. I...