Teens may have an increased risk for psychosomatic symptoms -- physical problems caused by mental distress -- if their parents separate or divorce, a new study suggests. Those who lived mostly with one parent due to a family breakup had the...
Two years ago Jenaie Scott had a $20 an hour cleaning job, which was plenty to cover the rent for a modest apartment on the west side of this state’s capital city. But Scott lost the job in a 2013 downsizing, setting off a downward spiral...
In September of 2014, Georgetown University National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health and JBS International went live with a web-based, video enhanced resource called Trauma Informed Care: Perspectives and Resources. The...
I copied this from ACEsTooHigh.com. The formatting is a bit messed up with the photos, but the story is the same. You can read the original here , if you prefer. A note regarding this post, that I did not foresee having to...
Pediatrician Rhea Boyd says it's time for the effects of police violence on African-American communities to be treated as a public health issue. In the wake of Sandy Hook, the response from physicians, and pediatricians in particular, was...
Being bullied as a child may take a larger toll on a young adult's mental health than being abused or neglected at home, a new study suggests. Kids who are the victims of bullies are more likely to experience anxiety, depression and to try to...
Acceptance of science has become increasingly polarized in the United States. Indeed, a recent Pew poll shows that there is a substantial and growing amount of public disagreement about basic scientific facts, including human evolution, the...
For the last dozen years, waves of idealistic Americans have campaigned to reform and improve K-12 education. Armies of college graduates joined Teach for America. Zillionaires invested in charter schools. Liberals and conservatives, holding...
The Family Nurturing Center is on a mission to prevent future heroin abuse by intervening in the lives of children who have been traumatized. Northern Kentucky, a center of the nationwide heroin scourge, is seeing dramatic increases in...
There was a sense of idealism in the air in 1971 when Craig Ramey, a psychologist in his late 20s with a newly minted Ph.D., took a job in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to launch what would become one of the longest-running educational...
Reducing the effects of significant adversity on young children’s healthy development is critical to the progress and prosperity of any society. Yet not all children experience lasting harm as a result of adverse early experiences. Some may...
The stories are all too common. A popular high school football player was found dead not far from his Grand Forks home in North Dakota and two high school students in Texas died after taking synthetic drugs. One took the drug mistaking it to be...
After two weeks of high tensions and mostly peaceful demonstrations in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, violence beset Baltimore on Monday afternoon and fanned through the city overnight. In the bright light of morning, answers may not be...
A global study of adolescents from low-income neighborhoods revealed that teenagers from Baltimore, a city located just 40 miles from the US capital, are faring worse than their counterparts in Nigeria. Many people tend to associate child...
Rona Renner -- a long-time nurse, parenting coach, author (Is That Me Yelling? A Parent's Guide to Getting Your Kids To Cooperate Without Losing Your Cool), and member of ACEsConnection -- hosts the radio show "About Health" on KPFA (FM 94.1) in...