Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

ACEs, Adversity's Impact

• What do asthma, heart disease and cancer have in common? Maybe childhood trauma
• Racism linked to uptake of smoking in young people
• Confronting adverse childhood experiences to improve rural kids' lifelong health
• Does stress cause dementia?
• Does America have a caste system?
• Childhood adversity, telomeres and love: Crappy childhood fairy interviews Susana De Leon, MD [20 min - Crappy Childhood Fairy]
• Who's still smoking? ACS report highlights most vulnerable adults
• 62.1% of transgender youth report mental health woes, study says
• Childhood abuse may increase chances of cardiovascular disease in adulthood

Children

"My Feelings Matter" poster contest entry deadline is March 31, 2018

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

• Shut down of Lincoln Hills, Copper Lake positive first step in revamping juvenile justice system, UW experts say
• How people affected by justice system handled living near drug activity, sex workers

DHS Career Opportunities

• Institution Director - Winnebago Mental Health Institute
• Medical Director - Southern Wisconsin Center
• Training Supervisor - Central Wisconsin Center
  

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Written exposure therapy effective PTSD treatment
• San Antonio part of study finding speedier PTSD therapy works
• A window into the evolution of trauma-focused psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder
• Army advances PTSD, other cognitive research through latest partnership
• Current opinion in psychology - traumatic stress
• Brain resetting treatment shows promise with veterans experiencing PTSD
• For most vets, PTSD isn't the problem, 'transition stress' is. Here's what that means
• Can just 5 therapy sessions work for those with PTSD?
• Optimism, self-differentiation, and perceived posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms: Predictors of satisfaction in female military partners.
• PTSD Monthly Update - January 2018
• AOTA societal statement - Stress, trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder
• 0.5 percent of the population suffer from severe PTSD
• Poor sleep worsens link between PTSD, chronic pain in youth

Resilience

• Trauma can have a positive impact on your life. Here's how
• Yes brain parenting: An interview with Dr. Dan Siegel
• An indigenous view on oneness
• Breathe in, breathe out: Simple breathwork meditation for beginners
  

Schools

• Panel says teachers aren't prepared to deal with trauma in children
• Researcher engages with policymakers and providers to help children cope with trauma
• Embedding trauma-informed practices within existing school-wide practices
• Getting to the root cause of disruptive student behavior

Substance Use Disorder

• Overdoses kill more Americans than died in Vietnam. How the VA is fighting back.
• Opioid addiction and pregnancy: Everything can still be okay
• Opioid abuse takes center stage at town hall
• Assessing childhood experiences to try to prevent addiction

Trainings

• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care
• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Sensitive Schools
• Trauma-Informed Care Train-the-Trainer
• Gender Spectrum Competence: Making safe space for transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex people
  
• Healing Trauma through the Collaborative Change Model: The Essential Ingredients for Transformative Trauma Treatment
• Skills and Tools for Adolescent Engagement: Working with Families and Schools to Support Resilience & Recovery

Trauma-Informed Care

• Tackling the mental health crisis in emergency departments: Look upstream for solutions
• Laying the groundwork for trauma-informed care
• At an HIV clinic, patients and staff have a voice in shaping trauma informed care
• Video: 5 steps toward trauma-informed care: What can you do tomorrow?
• Integrating trauma-informed practices across state government: The Wisconsin way

Violence

• ACHA releases toolkit on addressing campus sexual and relationship violence on college and university campuses
• Webinar: The crisis and trauma of family violence - February 8, 2018
  

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