"What then are the developmental and biological consequences of early exposures to penury, strife, and hardship? How do experiences of childhood adversity get “under the skin” and affect physiological and cellular pathways leading to...
"SUFFERING IN SILENCE: Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may cause big problems of concentration, have disruptive effects and prevent the sufferer from functioning normally in daily life....Problems caused by bullying do not...
"This paper arises out of frustration with the results of school reforms carried out over the past few decades. These efforts have failed. They need to be abandoned. In their place must come recognition that income inequality causes many social...
"This 2010 white paper reviews the clinical and research literatures on the impact of trauma in the context of urban poverty on the family system including the individual child or adult, adult intimate partnership, parent-child, siblings and...
"Those hugs helped calibrate your developing stress response system. The body’s stress response system works best in short bursts, with long rests in between. Too much activation and the stress reaction becomes...
According to a CDC spokesperson, the CDC is reviving the ACE Study, which has languished for the last few years. The Division of Violence Prevention in the Injury Center is now in charge of the study, whose data will be brought up to date. The...
Even these days, when a 14-year-old girl gets pregnant, popular opinion says she's a loser or stupid, and she deserves whatever happens to her. She often ends up in juvenile detention, on the streets or living with someone who abuses her. "We still...
"Congressman David Cicilline and Family Service of Rhode Island CEO Margaret Holland McDuff today announced that the non-profit has been awarded a $1.6 million federal grant to reduce the impact of trauma on the state’s children. Funding...
"The Los Angeles Unified School District’s mental health department, along with a group of partners, recently landed a $2.4-million grant to work with students exposed to traumatic events. The grant is the latest in an ongoing partnership among...
"Children suffering from psychological trauma will be receiving help through a new grant issued this month to the behavioral health service area at the Lake County Health Department/Community Health Center. "Provided through the National Child...
"Parental social anxiety should be considered a risk factor for childhood anxiety, and physicians who care for parents with this disorder would be wise to discuss that risk with their patients," Ginsburg said. Anxiety is the result of a complex...
"An increasing understanding of the concepts of “trauma” and “trauma-informed care” has influenced the way in which advocates and social services providers think of our work with domestic violence survivors. ... The...
"Another thing you will see with these kids who have experienced trauma is that they may use aggression to try and get control," she said. The way they view themselves can be skewed. They can feel powerless or helpless and blame themselves for not...
“Advocates won an important victory in October when the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) approved adding questions about childhood trauma to the state’s annual Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) . “The...
"The association between poverty and poor health is substantial and the effects are experienced over a lifetime; they are borne most heavily by children. Mitigation requires a public health approach, intervening upstream to increase economic...