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January 2017

6-Year-Old Girls Already Have Gendered Beliefs About Intelligence [TheAtlantic.com]

“There are lots of people at the place where I work, but there is one person who is really special. This person is really, really smart,” said Lin Bian . “This person figures out how to do things quickly and comes up with answers much faster and better than anyone else. This person is really, really smart.” Bian, a psychologist at the University of Illinois, read this story out to 240 children, aged 5 to 7. She then showed them pictures of four adults—two men and two women—and asked them to...

The Simple Reform That Improved Black Students' Earnings [TheAtlantic.com]

When states raise the number of math classes they require students to take in high school, black students complete more math coursework—and boost their earnings as a result. That’s the topline takeaway from new research by Joshua Goodman, an associate professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. [For more of this story, written by Emily Deruy, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/01/the-simple-reform-that-improved-black-students-earnings/514586/]

Does a Death in the Family Perpetuate Racial Inequality? [PSMag.com]

African Americans die at a much higher rate than whites , a fact that leaves an unfortunate but largely overlooked effect on the community as a whole: According to new research , African Americans are also much more likely to suffer a death in the family, the effects of which could reverberate across generations. “If blacks die at higher rates and earlier in the life course than whites, then blacks lose more loved ones from childhood through adulthood,” University of Texas–Austin professor...

How to Overcome Political Irrationality About Facts [TheAtlantic.com]

We may have reached peak polarization. The researchers Brian Schaffner, of the University of Massachusetts and Samantha Luks, managing director of scientific research at YouGov, showed people the two photos below, of President Donald Trump’s inauguration on the left and former President Barack Obama’s on the right: Schaffner and Luks , Trump voters were overwhelmingly more likely than Clinton voters to say Obama’s photo was actually Trump’s. What’s more, 15 percent of Trump voters told the...

Pediatricians Speak Out Against President Trump’s Immigration Orders [NBC.com]

President Donald Trump's new immigration orders are harmful and will worsen the plight of children fleeing for their lives, pediatricians said Wednesday. And they will scare the children of immigrants already living in the country, causing toxic stress, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a strongly worded statement. "The Executive Orders signed today are harmful to immigrant children and families throughout our country," AAP President Fernando Stein said. "Many of the children who...

Can the Collins-Cassidy Plan Save the Affordable Care Act? [PSMag.com]

Earlier this week, Republican Senators Susan Collins (of Maine) and Bill Cassidy (of Louisiana) proposed a replacement plan of sorts for the Affordable Care Act that’s since generated some buzz. Broadly speaking, their plan , the Patient Freedom Act of 2017, would grant states the ability to continue operating under the ACA, while also offering states the choice to opt out. “California and New York, you like Obamacare, you should keep it,” Cassidy told reporters. “It’s not for us to...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looking for interdisciplinary research leaders

Interdisciplinary Research Leaders is a leadership development opportunity for teams of researchers and community partners, including community organizers and advocates. These teams use the power of applied research—informing and supporting critical work being done in communities—to accelerate that work and advance health and equity. Their innovation helps build a Culture of Health , one that enables everyone in America to live longer, healthier lives. For this second IRL cohort (beginning...

Vanderbilt launches mental health series, “GO THERE – Break the Silence, Break the Stigma” [VanderbiltHustler.com]

For Provost Susan R. Wente, the meaning of mental health and wellness from the university’s standpoint means encouraging a culture of openness and honest discussion about mental health and wellbeing. “Mental health and wellbeing to us means really having a healthier community that’s very transparent and willing to share with one another what our challenges are and how to help one another, and that mental health and wellbeing does not at all infer that we think everyone has to be, and will...

Look To Women's Shelters To Help Shape Mental Health Conversations [HuffingtonPost.com]

Some of the most passionate mental health advocates work in women's shelters. Women on the front-lines for addressing mental health needs. Women supporting other women to find safety, stability, and empowerment in their lives -- in a way, sisterhood embodied. We need to hear their voices as Canada embarks on necessary (and overdue) conversations on the state of mental health care. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. Mental health stigma is real and online campaigns like Bell Let's Talk...

Mental health laws for students should involve students [TheDailyCougar.com]

While one could argue that every action that the Texas legislature takes is important and should be evaluated, the sheer volume of bills they pass makes that impractical. It is our duty as citizens and as students to look at the policies that affect us personally. For many students here at the University of Houston, one of those issues is higher education and/or mental health resources. In November 2015, Speaker Joe Straus formed the Select Committee to look at the behavioral health system...

Accelerate Your Healing With TRE

We all know your mind will eventually forget some of the details of the abuse or trauma you’ve survived. But your body never forgets. Like I’ve mentioned in other blog posts, trapped trauma must be released. It’s nothing more than emotional pain. If allowed to fester in the body for weeks, years, or decades it will eventually manifest as physical pain in the form of illness, allergies, chronic pain, etc. TRE (tension & trauma release exercises) created a major shift in my healing from...

New York City Has Been Zoned to Segregate [CityLab.com]

New York City is often romanticized as a mecca of multicultural urban living. But as diverse as it is, residents from very different backgrounds don’t often live in the same neighborhoods . In fact, New York is in second place after Milwaukee as far as black-white segregation goes. Today, historical color lines are being redrawn through a concentration of wealth and the displacement of communities of color . In New York, that phenomenon may be spurred in part by the city’s well-intentioned...

What's Causing Chicago’s Homicide Spike? [CityLab.com]

President Trump threatened Tuesday night to use federal power to “fix the horrible carnage” unfolding in Chicago, referring to the city’s extraordinary recent spike in homicides. The problem is real: 762 people were murdered in Chicago last year, a stunning 58 percent jump in homicides from 2015. So large was the sharp, sudden increase in homicides in one of America’s largest cities that it tangibly raised the entire nation’s homicide rate higher for 2016. But nobody really knows why it’s...

Can Ethnic Studies Education Change Academic Outcomes for Minority Students? [PSMag.com]

“Name 10 significant American historical figures.” That’s the question Christopher Chatmon posed to his 10th grade history students on the first day of school several years ago. Each student jotted down a list. Then they teamed up in small groups to refine it. Finally, they shared their top 10 with the class. His students at the San Francisco public high school where he previously taught were mostly African-American, Latino and Asian-American teenagers. Yet when the class stood back to...

Brownsville Child Development Center Represents New Vision for Children’s Mental Health in New York City [SocialWorkHelper.com]

The Brownsville Child Development Center , Brownsville’s first mental health clinic for children from birth to age 5, officially opens its doors this Thursday, January 26, bringing to Brooklyn a brand-new approach to working with severely at-risk children. A program of the Jewish Board for Family and Children’s Services (The Jewish Board), New York City’s largest human services organization, the Center will offer a wide range of therapeutic services for children from birth to age 5. First...

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