Another National Story on ACE's
Here is a link to another national story on ACE's. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/this-surprising-factor-can-make-people-4600-percent-more-prone-to-addiction/
May 2015
7th International Attachment Conference
The 7th International Attachment Conference will take place August 6-8, 2015 at The New School, New York City, NY. One, two, and four-day training workshops will take place August 2-5. The six previous biennial meetings have...
Resilience & Trauma: Words & More
I started therapy when I was in college. My therapist gave me an insurance form and told me I'd get coverage if I put in "generalized anxiety disorder." I did not. I put the names of the three people who had abused me growing up and handed the...
Child Protection News Gathered Nationally (for May)
ALL ADULTS ARE THE PROTECTORS OF ALL CHILDREN Most of our news for this page (300 + articles) is gathered from; Child Welfare in the News is distributed at no charge by Child Welfare Information Gateway ( www.childwelfare.gov...
+THE WONDER OF IT ALL
++ This is a post I wrote this morning about the interplay between empathy, imagination, imaginative "pretend play" and denial. What do we know? What are we ready (able) to know? What might link the California summer weather...
Advocates seek to end solitary confinement options for young offenders [LATimes.com]
Daivion Davis, 21, was convicted of second-degree attempted murder and voluntary manslaughter in 2009 after he opened fire in a gang shooting that killed a 16-year-old honors student attending the homecoming football game at Wilson High...
10 Things You Must Know about the ABLE Act [NAMI.org]
In December 2014, the Achieving Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act was signed into law. The law allows those living with disabilities, developed before the age of 26 (including serious mental health conditions), and their families to set up a...
Drug Overdose, On The Rise, Cropping Up As Campaign Issue [NPR.org]
As presidential candidates visit the early caucus and primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, they're hearing about heroin and meth. Drug overdoses now kill more Americans than traffic accidents. And, in many places, there's a growing...
Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA Of The Urban Poor [HuffingtonPost.com]
The urban poor in the United States are experiencing accelerated aging at the cellular level, and chronic stress linked both to income level and racial-ethnic identity is driving this physiological deterioration. These are among the...
Human Rights and Policy: Creating a Trauma-informed Policy Agenda
By Andrea Blanch, PhD, Carol Boyer, MA, Mary Blake, CRE While the term “trauma-informed” is relatively new, the concept shares historical roots with ISTSS. As described in detail by Sandy Bloom, ISTSS grew out of a broad social...
New mental health resources for faith leaders
The American Psychiatric Association has published Mental Health: A Guide for Faith Leaders and Quick Reference Guide on Mental Health for Faith Leaders. These resources have been developed through the Mental Health and Faith...
Could Trauma-Informed Care Be Eroding in Your Programs?
At Partner for Healing ( www.partnerforhealing.org ) we have just finished a month about Sustaining Trauma Informed Care. It is amazing that you can do a lot of training and work to implement trauma-informed care, and then all of...
Bouncing Back: Resilience Can Be Learned [HuffingtonPost.com]
We've all had the experience of a dark moment in our lives. Times where the sun didn't shine, the rain fell in sheets along with our tears, and we wondered how we could possibly bounce back from it all. Yet, we do bounce back and move on --...
How Brain Science Can Help Explain Discrepancies in a Sexual Assault Survivor's Story [HuffingtonPost.com]
"I believe that you believe something happened to you." The young woman repeated the detective's statement to me again. It had been the detective's response to her question of whether he believed her account of the brutal sexual assault she had...
Suicide Isn’t About Wanting to Die [Blogs.PsychCentral.com]
There are many misconceptions when it comes to suicide. People believe that it is selfish, egotistical, and even immoral. To stipulate, I am speaking of suicide in the context of mental illness. I am not speaking about assisted suicide in the...