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Back in the Hole: America’s Inability to Put an End to Solitary Confinement [PSMag.com]

At last, mainstream America seems to be talking about solitary confinement. Over the last decade, journalists and politicians have, more than ever before, discussed the perils of the practice: how enforced isolation damages the mind, how quickly it incites and exacerbates mental illness, how frequently it encourages self-mutilation and suicide — and how disproportionately it is used for non-white prisoners. Pope Francis condemned the practice. President Barack Obama pointedly questioned its...

Liberal MDs are furious after top doctors group backed Trump’s pick for health secretary [StatNews.com]

When Donald Trump this week tapped a surgeon-turned-congressman to run the Department of Health and Human Services, the nation’s largest physicians group swiftly endorsed the choice. The blowback started almost at once. Liberal doctors peppered the American Medical Association with furious tweets decrying the group’s endorsement of Representative Tom Price as a betrayal of patients and physicians. And by Wednesday night, 500 doctors had signed an online open letter titled “The AMA Does Not...

DOJ Establishing a School District in Federal Prison System [CNSNews.com]

The Justice Department on Wednesday announced a series of prison reforms intended to help former inmates return successfully to their communities. The federal government plans to set up a school district within the federal prison system; pay for state-issued IDs before inmates are released; regulate federal halfway houses and "explore alternative models"; and finally, enhance mental health and substance-abuse programs for female inmates. “Helping incarcerated individuals prepare for life...

The New 'Good Jobs' [CityLab.com]

“I’m going to bring jobs back to the United States like no one else can.” These words, spoken by President-elect Donald Trump during his campaign, were music to the ears of many of the working-class voters outside the nation’s trendy metro economies. These workers and their communities have suffered mightily from the decline of good jobs, especially in manufacturing, that only required a high-school education. President-elect Trump attributed the massive losses in these jobs to trade deals,...

Q&A: Solitary Confinement and Teens Shouldn’t Mix [Medium.com]

Dr. Bruce Perry is a child psychiatrist and senior fellow at the ChildTrauma Academy in Houston and adjunct professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. His neuroscientific research has focused largely on the effects of trauma on brain development. He has consulted on high-profile cases involving children in crisis, including the Columbine High School massacre, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Waco, Texas, siege, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 2010...

Venus and Serena Williams just opened a center for gun violence victims in Compton. [UpWorthy.com]

Venus and Serena Williams are incredible athletes. But their recent work shows that their bold abilities reach far beyond the tennis court, too. SHARE Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images. The two sisters just opened a safe haven for Compton residents affected by gun violence, which they're calling the The Yetunde Price Resource Center. The center’s mission hits close to home for the tennis stars: They were raised in Compton, California, and their sister, Yetunde Price, fell victim to gun...

Reclaiming Disconnected Kids

TROUBLED KIDS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR REGRETTABLE ABILITY TO ELICIT FROM OTHERS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY NEED. (L. Tobin ) Underneath their surface behaviors your most difficult students are young people in pain. Painful emotions including negative inner states like fear, anger, sadness and shame. Painful thoughts including worry, distrust, guilt, hatred and helplessness covered up by defense mechanisms like denial, blame, and rationalizations to cover the pain. And of course, pain...

Losing my husband inspired me to tackle farming's suicide problem [TheGuardian.com]

On 5 July this year my world was turned upside down. Until then I was an average 28-year-old, married with two children and a full-time job, juggling the stresses of everyday life. But that morning I woke up to find my husband Daniel missing. He had suffered with his mental health for a long time, but I still did not expect what had happened. Daniel had taken his own life. My world was thrown into a spiral. So many questions were unanswered and an uncertain life now faced my family. Mental...

A New Justice Challenge for Trump: Mental Health & Drugs [TheCrimeReport.org]

It’s a common lament of the nation’s police officers and prison wardens alike: A large proportion of the crime suspects and inmates they find themselves dealing with suffer from mental illness, substance-abuse issues, or both. Today, a coalition of organizations spanning justice and health interests are launching a new campaign to focus on what they call “behavioral health issues in the criminal justice system.” At a meeting in Washington, D.C., the groups are issuing what they termed...

2 Out of 3 Depressed Teens Gain Lasting Benefits From Therapy [Consumer.Healthday.com]

For teens, depression can affect more than their relationships and educational achievement -- it can harm their future prospects. But a new study suggests that many of these young people could reap long-term benefits from psychological counseling. "Depression can seriously impair people's lives, and in many cases begins during their teenage years," said Ian Goodyer, a professor at the department of psychiatry at the University of Cambridge in England. "If we can tackle it early on, evidence...

Understanding How Trauma Affects Health and Health Care

Recognizing the impact of trauma on health and patient engagement is a critical step that health care organizations can take in pursuit of achieving better outcomes. This new blog post and fact sheet explore the impact of trauma on health and health care, and outlines ways that health care providers can start helping their patients heal from trauma. Both of these resources are products of Advancing Trauma-Informed Care , a national initiative aimed at understanding how trauma-informed...

Stopping Suicides on Campus [Blogs.ScientificAmerican.com]

When I was a sophomore in college, our campus looked like a prison. My classmates and I walked to class between eight-foot tall chain-linked fences. Security guards patrolled bridges around the Ivy League school. It was 2010 and, in the last academic year, six students had killed themselves at Cornell University . Two jumped off bridges into the Ithaca gorges on consecutive days in March. Classmates anxiously checked in on one another. Parents panicked. The administration scrambled to...

McGuire to hold Eureka town hall on childhood poverty [Times-Standard.com]

North Coast state Sen. Mike McGuire and First 5 Humboldt County, the Humboldt County Children and Families Commission, are set to host a Eureka town hall meeting Thursday to discuss childhood poverty and adverse experiences. “It’s going to take all of us working together to solve this crisis happening in our community,” McGuire (D-Healdsburg) said in a statement this week. “This is an important first step and we’re honored to work together in the weeks and months to come for the well-being...

Opportunities to learn about adverse childhood experiences offered in Monona County [EnterprisePub.com]

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can affect everyone. ACEs are traumatic events that can dramatically upset a child’s sense of safety and well-being. Traumatic events that occur in a child’s life are linked with a higher risk of experiencing medical, psychiatric and social issues into adulthood. This affects the child, family, school and community. Through treatment and compassion, we can lessen the impact of ACEs on everyone! Discussions on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) are being...

Not All Kids Benefit From Subsidized Housing [CityLab.com]

How does living in subsidized housing change the academic forecast for low-income kids? Previous research suggests: not much at all. But a new study published in the American Journal of Community Psychology presents a new and nuanced answer.The effect of living in subsidized housing isn’t the same for all kids: Those who are already flourishing at school benefit, while the ones who’re struggling actually do worse compared to peers from similarly low-income families without housing...

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