April 2021

By Eric Tegethoff, Public News Service April 19,2021 BOISE, Idaho -- April is national Child Abuse Prevention Month and this year's awareness campaign comes in the wake of a hard year with the COVID-19 pandemic. Idaho saw a drastic increase in deaths resulting from child abuse during the pandemic: five in the past year. Before that, there had been no reported abuse deaths since 2017. Molly Kaczmarek, practice manager for St. Luke's Children at Risk Evaluation Services clinic, said financial...

The American Psychological Association has published a special issue focusing on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). In this special issue you will find a variety of articles addressing ACEs and the impact they have on us from biology to policy. From the American Psychological Association, " The goal of this special issue is to publish articles that encompass the range of work being conducted in research, practice, programs, and policy in psychology and allied disciplines. This emphasis is...