" Pope Francis has called on the Catholic Church to "act decisively" to root out sexual abuse of children by priests and ensure the perpetrators are punished, the Vatican has said. "The pope asked Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, the head of the...
"ON MARCH 25th, Global Times, a state-run newspaper, reported that a kindergarten teacher in Hebei province had been forcing pupils who misbehaved to drink their own urine as a punishment. The accused teacher has denied the reports, which are only the...
I am a survivor of sexual and physical abuse. The experience changed me. It shapes and informs who I am - how I interact with others and the world around me. Yes, I have grown stronger as a result of these experiences; they are the wellspring of my...
Published on Mar 25, 2013 This weekend the New York Times reported that on any given day 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement in American detention facilities. Nearly half are kept isolated for more than 15 days - the point at which...
"To spread awareness of this across the state, the Georgia Commission on Family Violence and the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence issued last week the 2012 Domestic Violence Fatality Review Report . The report analyzes domestic violence...
"Therefore, the training isn't just for law enforcement or officials with child protective services. The training is open to the public so that more people are trained to recognize and report domestic violence. One new member of the Vanderburgh...
"Years ago, I worked at a domestic violence shelter in Rhode Island. I watched mothers come in, bruised and bloodied, clutching their small children. Many of them left their homes and sought refuge in the shelter when they found out that their...
"Rhode Island has kicked off its efforts to transform social services across the state to being “trauma-informed.” A Riverside resident who heads Family Service of RI will be right in the middle of the transformation. “This will...
"A significant percentage of veterans returning from wars exhibit symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS). This is now recognized as a serious health problem, but what about the victims of such violence? Refugees live with the constant reminder of what...
"Department of Veterans Affairs doctors are continuing to prescribe tranquilizers such as Valium and Xanax to veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder -- despite VA guidelines advising against their use for the condition. :Almost a third...
"Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute have discovered that stress circuits in the brain undergo profound learning early in life. Using a number of cutting edge approaches, including optogenetics, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and...
"New research has shown that the way our minds react to and process emotions such as fear can vary according to what is happening in other parts of our bodies...." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-bodies-interact-minds-response-emotions.html
"Researchers now suspect that post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) may emerge from flaws in sleep's forgetting process. Two studies presented at the 2012 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans indicate that sleep might offer a...
"Grim images of gun incidents spanning from Newtown, Conn., to Los Angeles have filled news reports of late, presenting a challenge for parents whose children are exposed to these events through the media—whether by television, newspaper or the...
Connie Valentine, founder of the Incest Survivors Speakers Bureau , says no, in this article she wrote for the Davis, CA, Enterprise . It's posted here, with her permission: April is dedicated nationally to child abuse prevention and sexual assault...