"The Office of National Drug Policy Control promotes a “smart on crime” approach that emphasizes prevention and access to treatment over incarceration in order to break the cycle of substance abuse, crime and re-arrest—especially...
"U.S. lawmakers called Tuesday for federal action to prevent parents from giving unwanted adopted children to strangers met on the Internet, and the Illinois attorney general urged Facebook and Yahoo to police online groups where children may be...
"Walker visited the advocacy center to learn more about its comprehensive approach to addressing reported sexual and physical abuse of children. “I visited today because one of my initiatives is called Fostering Futures, which is related to...
AC member Dr. Vincent Felitti is featured in this podcast. Dr. Vincent Felitti is one of the co-authors of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study , and this week he's presenting his findings at a conference of Vermont public health and medical...
"Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery for adults, but for babies it's their foremost tool for learning. As renowned people-watchers, babies often observe others demonstrate how to do things and then copy those body movements. It's how...
" According to a Pew Charitable Trusts report , 1 in every 28 children in the United States has a parent behind bars. The problems these children can experience include financial instability, emotional distress, changes in family...
"Most parents who experienced intimate partner violence had children that grew to face violence in their own adult relationships, according to a study published by the Crime Victims' Institute at Sam Houston State University. "These families,...
"Early life pain alters neural circuits in the brain that regulate stress, suggesting pain experienced by infants who often do not receive analgesics while undergoing tests and treatment in neonatal intensive care may permanently alter future...
" Social workers include childhood poverty in a term titled “ACEs” or Adverse Childhood Experiences. Poverty, neglect, abuse, trauma, all may contribute to challenges in adulthood, challenges from mild learning disabilities to...
My SoCal ACE friend Lou Godbold wrote on Facebook the other day about an experience she had, thinking of other people's "normal families" (see below): "Couples preparing meals, families eating together..." she wrote... My response? Too good to...
This video is going viral at the moment. I'm sure many of you have seen it already. It is a good documented example of the dyadic quality of the mother-child relationship. Interesting at the end, the mother says, 'it's just a song.'...
In his Fixes column in the New York Times, David Bornstein focused on the work of Child FIRST: Child FIRST teams visit families once a week for six to 12 months, or longer, with the goal of stabilizing the family. They begin by establishing trust,...
"Idaho’s Child Welfare program has received federal approval to broaden its use of federal funds to include in-home preventive and treatment services for families who are struggling, with an aim to keep children in their homes and out of foster...
"Modern medicine usually considers trauma—both the physical and the psychological kinds—as unequivocally damaging. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University are lending support to a more philosophical view of suffering, finding that trauma,...
Abstract Objective Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is significantly and positively associated with several physical conditions. We aimed to examine whether the nature and number of trauma(s) experienced may be related to physical conditions using...