"No matter what our experience is or where we live, rights and respect are the way to safer and more prosperous communities. Whether you’re a teacher, student, community activist or survivor, you’ll find materials you can use to help...
"Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on Sunday told a British literary festival that parents who forced their children to believe that religion was a fact were guilty of “child abuse.”... “What a child should never be taught is...
"In the general population, posttraumatic stress has been noted in up to 20% of children and adolescents with asthma, 33% of those with HIV, 48% of those who have been violently injured, and 53% of those with burns. Overall, up to 80% of ill and...
"Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation , Healing Hearts, Promoting Health (HHPH) is an intensive pilot project that addresses the trauma and related nutrition, health, and wellness issues of recently displaced families and children, with particular...
"Sexuality, advocacy and violence were the topics discussed during Behind the Perspective: Advocacy, Social Justice, and the Cultural Dimensions of Mental Health conference Saturday. "The seminar was hosted by the Counselor Education Department in the...
“This facility, for us, is a consolidation for our many outpatient services. It’s been pretty much a 10-year dream to get all of our services and staff under one roof,” FitzGerald said. “So it’s been a long time in...
As a result of Chris Engel's interesting blog post -- The link between animal abuse, human violence & beyond --Kristin Benzinger sent us this post that she and attorney Richard Console wrote and posted on Console's site, Console & Hollawell. It'sanother look at the link between animal abuse and violence. Often, when a violent crime occurs on a massive scale when a person commits serial murders or mass shootings certain patterns of behavior...
Creating a Place of Healing and Forgiveness: The Trauma-Informed Care Initiative at the Women's Community Correctional Center of Hawaii -- The Trauma-Informed Care Initiative (TICI) is a unique collaboration among the facility...
I came across this poem from a student who left a traditional high school. We are so quick to judge and label those who don't meet our expected values and expectations. Since I have become the principal of Lincoln High School, my students have...
"More than one-third of Americans who use shelters annually are parents and their children. In 2011, that added up to more than 500,000 people. “In 2000, we as a nation — and the Department of Housing and Urban Development — made the...
Summary B ackground: Traumatic childhood experiences are important societal problems and have far-reaching mental and somatic consequences. There is a considerable amount of literature concerning the relationship between adverse childhood experiences...
"The messages on the posters are not subtle, and they're not meant to be: a crying toddler with the caption, "I'm twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen," reads one, while another shows a little girl saying, "Honestly...
Apr 17th--"Does it matter at all that Richard Dawkins, England’s most famous public intellectual, and the Oxford Professor for Public Understanding of Science, disseminates crass and false information about child sexual abuse? Of course it...
Apr 16th--"...Some of you may know that I began my working life as a Freudian analyst, and bowed out (other expressions come to mind) over the issue of child abuse. In one sentence: I believed Freud was right the first time, when he...
Lately I have been working on a paper about the phenomenology of violence, focusing on the present atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. On the days when I am not trying to grapple with the inconceivable...