Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

ACEs, Adversity's Impact 

• How emotional trauma drives nearly everything we do
• Adverse childhood events linked to worse patent-reported SLE outcomes
• A global survey sheds new light on how bad events affect young people
• Childhood adversity tied to sleep problems decades later
• Childhood adversity linked to early puberty, premature brain development and mental illness
• Video: ACEs and toxic stress: Rewriting the story for the next gene
• How childhood trauma impacts our families, our work, our future
• Trauma in adulthood can begin in the first 2 months of life
• Adverse child experiences costly in many ways
• Only 1% of social service policies for children include information about healthy sleep
• Three parent factors that heighten the prevalence of childhood physical abuse 

Brain and Biology

• Corticosteroid signaling at the brain-immune interface impedes coping with severe psychological distress
• Altered brain activity in antisocial teenagers
• The science of how our minds and our bodies converge in the healing of trauma
• How to stimulate the vagus nerve function to reduce inflammation and support the brain
• This is what your brain looks like with PTSD
• Early life stress plus overexpressed FKBP5 protein increases anxiety behavior

Bullying

• Bullying, pain and analgesic use in school-age children
• Study: Parental involvement lessens effects of bullying on middle schoolers
• Bullying gets worse as children with autism get older

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

Pregnant women with substance use disorders need treatment, not prison

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• 'Ecstasy' shows promise for post-traumatic stress treatment
• PTSD symptoms can emerge late in life for veterans, seniors
• 10 things people constantly get wrong about PTSD

Resilience

• Understand and overcome your compassion fatigue: An online guide
• Playing teen sports may protect from some damages of childhood trauma
• Podcast: We need to help more trauma survivors value self-care
• Infancy and early childhood matter so much because of attachment
• Let's spread the word about #ServeAndReturn!
• Growing after trauma: An interview with Dr. Julie Gottman

Schools

• Trauma sensitive schools networking meetings
• Portrait of a turnaround principal
• Yoga and love in a school that helps children of color excel
• How a new understanding of childhood trauma is changing U.S. education
• Strategies schools can use to become more trauma-informed
• Desperation and broken trust when schools restrain students or lock them in rooms
• Role of zero tolerance policies in school-to-prison pipeline 
• Podcast: Counseling in Schools: From 'trauma informed care' to 'healing centered engagement'
• Tamar Jacobson: A child's bad behavior isn't 'attention-seeking.' She's seeking a relationship

Substance Use Disorder

• Prodependence: Moving beyond codependency
• At the front lines in Tennessee: Rural clinic offers trauma-informed treatment for substance use disorder
• Video for kids: Addiction and the brain
• Championing treatment for substance use disorder in primary care: A Q&A with New Jersey providers
• Webinar: Connecting the dots: Addiction, trauma, and tobacco use
• SAMHSA Tribal Opioid Response Grants Announcement

Trainings

• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care
• Coaching to universal implementation: The 7ei model of trauma sensitive schools

Trauma-Informed Care

• How understanding trauma can strengthen health care organizations: A Q&A with Sandra Bloom
• Indigenous wisdom healing historical trauma
• Trauma-informed care: How CBT and mindful awareness are key factors in repairing the brain

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