A three-day conference that started Tuesday in Helena is focusing on the lifelong impacts of traumatic experiences and the importance of understanding those experiences when helping young children and families. The Great Beginnings, Great...
LEIGH ROBINSON WAS out for a lunchtime walk one brisk day during the spring of 2013 when a call came from the principal at her school. Will, a third-grader with a history of acting up in class, was flipping out on the playground. He'd taken off...
What's going through the mind of a 16-year-old kid who mugs a little old lady? Even a quick glimpse of the fear and anguish on her face would instinctively lead most people to pause and re-assess what they were doing. But for the young...
Pixar has a proud tradition of taking things that are incapable of expressing human emotion—robots, toys, rats, cars—and imagining a world where they can, in fact, feel. The studio's most recent effort, the box-office topping and...
More research is needed to improve the identification and treatment of women with perinatal mental health issues, according to a new editorial co-authored by Professor Susan Ayers, the lead of the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research...
The webpage linked below, announces, describes and links to this report on the "sexual abuse to prison pipeline," issued by the Center on Poverty and Inequality. "July 9, 2015 — A new report released today by a coalition of...
It is a remarkable fact that the brain, made of neurons and their connections to one another named synapses, is able to remember. After all, if there is one thing we can say about our bodies and about nature, it's that change is everywhere. To...
Being “fat” is the most common reason children are bullied, and something needs to be done about it. That is the predominant view of thousands of adults from four different countries who, when asked why children are bullied, said...
Dramatic black-and-white images of the mentally ill have been a mainstay in photography since the early 20th century. Hundreds of photographers have documented out-of-control — and often untreated — patients trapped in mental...
Having Type 2 diabetes is associated with greater impairment of blood flow to the brain and a sharper decline in mental acuity compared with nondiabetic people of similar age and health status, even over a two-year period, researchers report. ...
Let's Ask Facebook to Help Us Protect Children from Public Shaming When adults publicly shame their children, a fund amental line gets crossed. We have an o bligation to take a stand on behalf of children and to refuse to...
Everybody loves cognitive behavioural therapy . It’s the no-nonsense, quick and relatively cheap approach to mental suffering – with none of that Freudian bollocks, and plenty of scientific backing. So it was unsettling to...
There’s been a lot of consternation over oil trains recently. In the U.S. and Canada, almost two dozen crude-carrying trains have derailed in the past two years — exploding into giant balls of fire in some cases,...
Forty percent of DC high school students witness violence in the course of just one year. About 4,000 DC public school students are homeless. There are over 1,000 DC children in foster care, and many more at risk of entering care because of...
What you need to know to be the BEST support system. If your spouse or significant other is suffering from a mental illness such as anxiety or depression, here are a few things to keep in mind that can help them — and help you keep your...