"...When traumatized people seek help at public mental health programs they often encounter a pronounced interest in identifying what’s wrong with them. This is primarily due to the continued reliance on the psychiatric Bible (DSM 4/5) to...
"Parents Interacting with Infants, or PIWI, teaches the young women how to nurture their infants and toddlers, how to observe and learn things from the way the babies act, basically how to be a good mother. “The emphasis is on nurturing and...
"How serious is the issue of military rape ? The latest figures show that a full 20% of female veterans who were stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan were the victims of sexual trauma while serving. Worse yet, since the percentage...
Abstract Background: Several large population-based studies have demonstrated associations between adverse childhood experiences and later development of psychotic symptoms. However, little attention has been paid to the mechanisms...
Abstract Although abundant evidence exists indicating the prevalence of trauma exposure among youth in residential care, few models exist for creating trauma-informed milieu treatment. This article outlines the problem and describes the implementation...
Absract Evolving understandings of stress have literally transformed how we think about health as contextualized within complex and multilevel transactions between individuals and their environment. We present core concepts of stress through the lens...
"When we prevent or successfully treat substance abuse, we prevent suicides. There is a powerful connection between the missions of the substance abuse prevention and treatment communities and the suicide prevention community –...
"Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist and public speaker. In her newest book, The Last Best Cure(Hudson Street, February 2013), she chronicles her year-long journey investigating the groundbreaking neuroscience on how...
Dr. Bruce Perry is state-of-the-art on "How Our Brains Work 101." The recording for Dr. Perry's latest Sept. 5 webinar is up at: www.thenationalcouncil.org/events-and-training/webinars/webinar-archive/ He talks about developmental trauma, which...
"The Camellia Network , a multi-state organization that seeks and identifies resources for youths aging out of foster care, kicked off it first annual “Great Fall Rally” this week to push for donors willing to support former foster youth...
"When asked why they had committed rape, nearly three quarters (73%) of respondents who had committed rape said that they did so for reasons of sexual entitlement. Over half (59%) said they did it for entertainment, while over a third (38%) said they...
"Use of stimulant medications to treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents has increased significantly over the past several years. This trend toward increased use of prescription stimulants extends beyond ADHD...
"No matter how hard we try as parents and teachers we cannot protect all children from tragedy. Join host Charity Nebbe who talks with Dr. David Schonfeld about how tragedy affects children and what we can do to help the children in our lives...
"A type of therapy developed to treat victims of military trauma can help ease distress and depression among mothers of babies born prematurely, a new study finds. "Having a premature birth is an extremely traumatic event for the parents of that child...