Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

LAST CALL TO REGISTER Registration for this event closes March 26, 2019. There are only a few seats remaining. Visit the DHS website for more information on this event. Continuing education hours are available.

ACEs, Adversity's Impact 

• Screening for adverse child experiences in primary care
• Linked: Adverse childhood experiences, health + addiction
• Adults with childhood traumas 11 times more likely to be involved in drugs and violence, report says
• Warning of overload in childhood trauma data
• Mental health issues increased significantly in young adults over last decade
• New student group to give hope to those with traumatic childhoods
• How anxiety leads to disruptive behavior

Brain and Biology

• Childhood trauma leads to brains wired for fear
• Gene that keeps PTSD-like behavior at bay in female mice
• Using your head: How brain health and trauma affects us
• Gene variant associated with cellular aging

Bullying

• Oshkosh teen's songs fight bullying and depression. She's on American Idol this season
• Bullying evolves with age and proves difficult to escape from

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

• Criminal justice and healthcare: Why they're linked
• Restorative justice gave me the best day of my life
• Video: ACES and juvenile justice
• SAMHSA Publication: Principles of community-based behavioral health services for justice-involved individuals: A research-based guide
• Breaking the cycle: Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) in the criminal justice system

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• PTSD Research Quarterly Vol. 30/(1), 2019
• Exposure to trauma impacts ability to squash bad memories
• Transforming the chaos of cancer to post-traumatic growth
• Groundbreaking test for PTSD developed
• Cutting-edge treatment helping those who suffer from PTSD in east Idaho
• New research identifies potential PTSD treatment improvement

Resilience

• Yoga for vets offers stress relief for responders
• Parents and children: The power of play
• To help heal trauma, talk less, and write more
• How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
• Prevention: Teaching people how to create healthy families
• Everyday strong: Teaching kids about family history helps increase resilience
• The Healing Place Podcast - Karen Zilberstein: Parents under pressure
• Transforming kids' problem behaviors into skills
• Parental mindfulness and preschool children's emotional regulation: The role of mindful parenting and secure parent-child attachment 

Schools

• Sensory pathways provide new learning tool in Cottage Grove school
• Changing mindsets and practices: The trauma-responsive schools movement
• Families and schools may play key roles in promoting adolescent self-confidence
• Responding to students with addiction
• 4 ways social-emotional learning can create safe school spaces for all students
• Schools in England introduce a new subject: Mindfulness
• Making school a safe haven, not a fortress

Substance Use Disorder

• Binge drinking in adolescence may increase risk for anxiety later in life
• The surprising links among opioid use, suicide and unintentional overdose
• Report: Response to opioid epidemic needs sharper focus on children 
• Is anxiety in childhood and adolescence linked to later alcohol use disorders?
• How addiction treatment falls short, and what is being done about it

Trainings

Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care

Trauma-Informed Care

• New push to make Rockford region a trauma-informed community
• California looks to lead nation in unraveling childhood trauma
• Video: Trauma-informed care for the Scottish workforce
• Free Trauma Webinar: FST stabilization vs. trauma work - setting the goals for therapy
• How chapters are addressing pediatric mental health crisis
• Therapist follows modern ways for trauma treatment
• At intersection of trauma and disabilities: A new toolkit for providers

Violence

• New study suggests inter-generational effect of witnessing intimate partner violence in childhood 
• Drinking and intimate partner violence severity levels among U.S. ethnic groups in an urban emergency department 
• Breastfeeding can erase effects of prenatal violence for newborns

Do not reply directly to this email message. If you have a question, email Scott Webb. Visit the DHS website for more information on trauma-informed care.