"Divorce has a bigger impact on child-parent relationships if it occurs in the first few years of the child's life, according to new research. Those who experience parental divorce early in their childhood tend to have more insecure relationships with...
"Why do these kinds of experiences create such a painful and long-lasting effect? The answer lies in very old structures in the human brain, called the amygdala and the hippocampus. These are nestled within the temporal lobe, which manages sensory...
"Even short-term exposure to political violence may have long-lasting effects on children's adjustment and behavior, says a new study by a team of researchers from Kenya, Italy and the United States. "Intense violence followed the contested Kenyan...
"Brain scans of preschoolers with depression revealed elevated activity in the amygdala (the small area in the red circle) when compared with scans of young children exhibiting no signs of depression.... "Gaffrey said it's possible depression affects...
"An eight-week intervention involving 141 preschoolers in a Head Start program and their parents produced significant improvements in the children's behavior and brain functions supporting attention and reduced levels of parental stress that, in turn,...
"Ohio's agencies for mental health services and for alcohol and drug addiction are merging into one entity. The combined department will include more than 460 alcohol, drug and gambling addiction prevention and treatment providers, 400 community...
Abstract Improving our ability to accurately predict individual risk for depression would have profound public health benefits. While there has been growing interest in understanding the relation between measures of positive emotion, such as...
"Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have traced chronic health problems of adult inner-city women to traumas from childhood abuse and neglect. "The latest findings, reported in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, complement prior studies of other socioeconomic groups and provide further evidence linking childhood mistreatment to serious health issues as adults, said Meeyoung O. Min, assistant professor of social work at Case Western Reserve's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel...
"Pregnancy can be a time of promise and hope for the future. For some women who use drugs and alcohol it can be a powerful force for change in order to give their baby a healthy start. Yet breaking free of substances is mentally and physically hard. A...
" Below are reflections and highlights of a workshop on Trauma Informed Care that several SAFE Advocates recently attended! "Thanks to the generosity of the Office on Women’s Health, three other advocates and I received the privilege of...
"The symptom trajectory of delayed-onset posttraumatic stress disorder is complex, and ongoing stress and mild traumatic brain injury may play a role in symptom severity, according to new study results published in JAMA Psychiatry . “There is...
"In order to understand more fully how life-altering events like abuse, neglect or violence are affecting a child’s learning and cognitive development, Hassan and Michelle Jones, a middle school teacher at East, have partnered with Akron...
"On average, children who were maltreated or were at risk for maltreatment had Medicaid expenditures more than $2,600 higher annually than children who were not subject to or at risk for maltreatment, according to Curtis Florence, PhD, of the CDC...
" Out and Up Front and FosterClub are models for how youth can speak publically about their experiences in a therapeutic, “trauma-informed” way that ensures young people’s emotional safety. Staff members are responsible for...
"A mediation scheme has been launched at the Isle of Man Courts of Justice to support families experiencing the trauma of a relationship breakdown. "The aim is to provide faster and more effective resolution in cases of divorce or separation,...