Amanda Erickson wrote a poignant column on AtlanticCities.com in which she responds to a couple of heartless posts by San Franciscans who advocate that the homeless should be hidden away. I get it. Getting yelled at on the street, turning people...
Ta-Nehisi Coates in Atlantic.com says "One should never lose sight of why America preaches nonviolence to some people while urging other people to arms." In the shadow of our conversation, one sees a constant, indefatigable specter which has dogged us...
Latest from Chapter 3 of "Don’t Try This at Home-The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder- How I accidentally regressed myself back to infancy and healed it all" at AttachmentDisorderHealing.com/book/ I bet that title got your attention....
Ad Hoc Committee Members Wanted. Smile At Your Baby! supporters, won't you consider joining a new short-term, temporary committee? Five to ten volunteer committee members wanted to review BABY BIT memes and select the top 10 most effective, poignant,...
By age 4, children in families living with incomes under 200 percent of the federal poverty line have less gray matter—brain tissue critical for processing of information and execution of actions—than kids growing up in families with...
On the right track, but it's not just about empowerment about food! The Southampton researchers warn: "The public health approach currently used across industrialized nations (like the UK) of providing women with information about healthy eating ...
A researcher in New Zealand who surveyed 387 teens, 84 of whom said they were self-harmers, found some unexpected results: "Approximately 23 per cent of self-harming kids had harmed in front of other people, and nearly 12 per cent had actually harmed...
Virginia governor announces millions for mental health after Sen. Creigh Deeds' son Gus stabs dad, commits suicide for lack of mental health treatment http:// wp.me/p4HKM-1ejy
No surprises here.... Researchers found that 34% of young people serving community based orders and 66% in youth detention were dependent on alcohol, cannabis, heroin, amphetamines or sedatives – the most common being cannabis. Those serving...
.....but is this approach really decreasing poverty? Would poor people who rely on these programs not call themselves poor? This is an interesting article in the Washington Post about research from Columbia University, which addresses the issue of...
by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors site: http://www.nasmhpd.org/Publications/Women_and_Trauma.aspx Groundbreaking Federal Interagency Report on Women and Trauma-informed Approaches You are invited to download a...
Adult patients who seek help in hospital emergency rooms are "more likely to smoke, drink, use illicit substances, and misuse prescription drugs than are members of the general population," according to an overview of a study by Steven Bernstein,...
Andrew Garner wrote this article for Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's the abstract: Home visiting is an important mechanism for minimizing the lifelong effects of early childhood adversity. To do so, it must...