ACEs Connection member Dr. Gabor Mate is featured in this article. "We know we are born primed for connection, with the most significant relationship in a child’s life being his or her primary caregiver – but what happens when this does...
Stamping out Domestic Violence in Hunan - China …"We have seven 'firsts' in the country." "We introduced the first normative municipal documents on the prevention and combating domestic violence and openly oppose it in the name of the...
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"Social and population variations in mental diagnosis are not accounted for in the newly revised fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), according to an editorial published in the May issue of Health...
"What is the most important problem facing American children today? "According to the Academic Pediatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, it is the effects of poverty on the health and well being of young people. But, they concede,...
"The Stewards of Children program soon will take a giant leap toward the goal of educating 5,000 Centre County residents to recognize and report child abuse. "Howard Long, president and CEO of the YMCA of Centre County, said four local school...
" On May 8, 2013, Washington State governor Jay Inslee signed SHB1284, or the Children of Incarcerated Parents bill, into law. The law guides the courts' discretion to delay the termination of parental rights if the parent's incarceration or prior...
"Based on the success of Drew House, the Brooklyn DA is now launching Justice Home, which will give convicted female felons the right to serve their sentence in their own residence while retaining custody of their children. "The new program has...
"In a first-of-its-kind effort to illuminate the biochemical impact of trauma, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a connection between the quantity of cannabinoid receptors in the human brain, known as CB1...
"Every cell in our bodies runs on a 24-hour clock, tuned to the night-day, light-dark cycles that have ruled us since the dawn of humanity. The brain acts as timekeeper, keeping the cellular clock in sync with the outside world so that it can govern...
"New findings about how the brain functions to suppress pain have been published in the leading journal in the field Pain, by National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway) researchers. For the first time, it has been shown that suppression of...
"Are high school age students who show aggression toward their peers more likely to consume alcohol, tobacco and marijuana? A new study of Latino adolescents in Kansas City, Mo., confirms this idea. But the linkage to substance use is strongest with a...
"By targeting first-time, young vulnerable mothers with low socio-economic status—the current criteria for the FNP—the programme is only reaching around one-quarter of families likely to benefit and the study estimates that it is missing...