"Youth who have experienced adverse childhood experiences and trauma have learned to be reactive. As a matter of survival, some may have needed to act reflexively before thinking, to take an offensive stance rather than leave themselves vulnerable....
"Objectives. We determined whether a report of adverse childhood experiences predicts adult outcomes related to homelessness, mental health, and physical health and whether participation in active military service influences the relationship between...
"A new study showing explosive growth in student poverty suggests, though, that we have misidentified the problem. What if we have actually been teaching the right skills in U.S. schools all along – math and reading, science and civics, along...
A very interesting perspective !! http://www.mindful.org/mindful-magazine/my-brain-made-me-do-it
When Dr. Ramona Bishop walked into her office on April Fool’s Day in 2011, the Vallejo schools had hit rock-bottom: The system had been in receivership since 2004. Its 14,000 students were racking up nearly 80,000 referrals,...
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As I sit here thinking about an elementary school classmate who recently passed away, I wonder about many of the other young boys who attended school with me. Many of them seemed pretty angry and would explode at the drop of a dime. I was...
"We’ll visit two 5th grade classrooms this hour. One class is made up of kids whose families are mostly well-off: "In general the kids have a lot of help. Their parents are role models. Most of them come from families where their parents are...
25 October 2013 : I had the pleasure of taking part in this very special project on complicated grief, titled Stories of Complicated Grief: A Critical Anthology , edited by Eric Miller, PhD. It will soon be released by NASW Press , and if...
"Maternal symptoms of anxiety and depression increased the risk of emotional and disruptive problem behaviors in children as early as 18 months of age, according to new research findings from the TOPP study. The risk persisted into adolescence and...
" Only 1 percent of former foster youth go to college , according to the Guardian Scholars Program. Of that 1 percent, only 11 percent graduate. Advocates like the Guardian Scholars Program and California College Pathways say such low numbers are due...
"Youths in Illinois juvenile prisons suffered higher rates of sexual assault than those in other states because of the lack of adequate staffing and state-of-the-art security cameras and a failure to spot "red flag" behavior, a report released...
"The well-established view that intelligence is largely genetically fixed and hardly malleable has been discarded. A team of Dutch research methodologists at VU University Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam and Tilburg University propose that the...
"Led by Hefei Wen, in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Rollins School of Public Health, the study examined the effect of state-level SUD parity laws that require private health plans to provide coverage for SUD treatment equal to...