Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes, November 2022

Don’t forget to take your emotional temperature as fall gives way to winter and cooler temperatures. Understanding your feelings and where they come from helps you build resilience and recognize signs of stress and depression. That way you can make healthy changes and ask for help if you need it. Need help? Visit Resilient Wisconsin pages on our website.

ACEs, adversity's impact 

• Children’s maladaptive eating behaviors may be tied to parental mental health

• We know better, so why aren’t we doing better in supporting the health of children and youth in care?

• Association between childhood maltreatment and atopy in the UK: A population based retrospective cohort study

• Childhood interpersonal trauma indirectly affects first episode of psychosis

• 10 things you didn't know were trauma responses

• Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health

• American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children are overrepresented in foster care in states with the largest proportions of AIAN children

• Caregiver depression associated with child asthma outcomes

• Having suffered trauma during childhood triples the risk of suffering a serious mental disorder in adulthood, study finds

• Homelessness cannot be solved without tackling trauma, new research reveals

• What it's like to inherit trauma

• Kids with migraines more likely to experience anxiety, depression

• Does adversity make you stronger? Scientists say not always

• Abuse, neglect in childhood may increase heart failure risk as an adult

• Traumatic experiences tied to lower estrogen levels in menopause

• Victims of childhood abuse are biologically older than their peers in midlife, study indicates

• Three in four teens faced potentially traumatic events during the pandemic

• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation appears effective in patients with adverse childhood experiences

• Strict parenting can alter a child's DNA, lead to depression in kids: Study

Brain and biology

• The impact of trauma on the heart

• Structure of adult brain, previously thought to be fixed, is altered by depression treatment

• Psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy benefit adults with MDD and childhood trauma

• Understanding a traumatized brain

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• Building trust and trauma-informed approach key to tackling drug use in criminal justice system
• Identifying childhood trauma a key to rehabilitating, reintegrating prison inmates into society

DHS jobs

• Lead substance use treatment coordinator (Deadline to apply is November 21, 2022)
• Opioid response planning analyst (Deadline to apply is November 23, 2022)
• Supervised Release Program clinical coordinator (Deadline to apply is November 30, 2022)

See all DHS jobs available right now.

Posttraumatic stress disorder and moral injury

• Podcast: On moral injury and emotions in medicine
• PTSD may speed up cellular aging

• How to kick the stigma of mental illness to the curb

• Repairing relationships through forgiveness may help people recover from moral injury

• What Is EFT tapping? A detailed scientific guide on Emotional Freedom Technique

• Navigating secondary PTSD: Surviving the war that came home

• Psychological First Aid training could help improve care workers' wellbeing

• Treating PTSD and complex PTSD: Changing the ways we adapt

• The unaddressed moral dimensions of trauma

• Morally injurious betrayal linked to chronic pain in female veterans

• Napping worsens PTSD? Daytime sleep can enhance fearful memories of traumatic events

• Having suffered trauma during childhood triples the risk of suffering a serious mental disorder in adulthood, study finds

Resilience

• Mindfulness-based stress reduction safe, effective for anxiety disorders

• Using curiosity to build resilience in children

• What it means to grow up with adversity and thrive

• Veterans open up about the power of horses in the fight against PTSD: 'A whole other level of healing'

• The courage to heal
• UW-Madison: 1-week group treatment program brings significant mental health benefits associated with epigenetic changes in teens with history of trauma

• How setting boundaries with your time can help improve your well-being

• A growing body of research supports the positive impact of massage therapy for mental health

• Lightening the load we carry from childhood

• The power of resilience: Kari Taylor

Schools

• Video: Getting started with trauma-informed practices

• Trauma-informed design evaluation tool for K-12 schools is here!

Substance use disorder

• Stigmatizing terminology for outcomes and processes (STOP) in alcohol research: A meta-epidemiologic assessment of language used in clinical trial publications

• When it comes to addiction, Americans’ word choices are part of the problem

• An umbrella review of the links between adverse childhood experiences and substance misuse: What, why, and where do we go from here?

Trainings

La Crosse's Resilient and Trauma-Informed Community (RTIC) Foundation Training

Trauma-informed care

• Video: Deep dive into trauma-informed care
• Video: Trauma-informed practices training video
• Video: De-escalation
• Resource: La Crosse's Resilient and Trauma-Informed Community (RTIC) website
• Resource: La Crosse's RTIC Planning Guide
• New Report: Federal funding is available for the trauma-informed movement 

• Realizing trauma-informed care in the workplace

• Children's health month: The importance of infant and early childhood mental health
• Teachers changed my life: Trauma-informed education shows kids they matter

• Adverse childhood experiences: Can government policy reduce trauma?

• Seniors need trauma-informed services in long-term care homes

Violence

Partner violence more likely for young gender and sexual minorities

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