Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

ACEs, Adversity's Impact 

• LGBTQ homeless youth: We can't ignore their systemic oppression
• Video: ACE Study's Dr. Vincent Felitti discusses his experiences with Dr. Brian Alman
• The effect of adverse childhood experiences on depression symptoms among older adults in China
• For detained migrant children, the longer the trauma the greater the impact
• Review of ACE studies confirms supporting parent-child relationship is key
• Video: The science of loneliness and isolation
• Why is trauma a four-letter word for so many men?
• Role of pre-existing adversity and child maltreatment on mental health outcomes for children involved in child protection: population-based data linkage study
• The complexity of the indigenous historical trauma concept
• Prenatal parental stress linked to behavior problems in toddlers
• Experts note connection between adverse childhood experiences, mass shooters
• Traumas change perception in the long term
• Soul crushing. PTSD symptoms showing up in more than half of children's service workers
• Boston University to study adverse childhood experiences, later life outcomes
• Whole child assessments found to effectively screen children for adverse childhood experiences
• Abusive childhood, then foster care led to young man's homelessness

Brain and Biology

• Potential biomarker of psychological stress
• Researchers identify glial cells as critical players in brain's response to social stress

Bullying

• Babies display empathy for victims as early as 6 months
• Students with greater sense of school-belonging are less likely to become bullies
• Trauma begets trauma: Bullying associated with increased suicide attempts among 12-to-15 year-olds

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

• Law enforcement, child development people must communicate for reform
• Children of incarcerated parents have more substance abuse, anxiety

DHS Career Opportunity

Behavioral Health Services Coordinator

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Do hormones affect a woman's ability to recover from PTSD?
• Genetic basis for re-experiencing symptoms of PTSD
• Increased sweating after trauma may predict PTSD risk
• Huge study explores genetics of PTSD in more than 165,000 US veterans
• Researchers test feasibility of a blood test to gauge PTSD risk immediately following trauma
• Trauma exposure, post-traumatic stress disorder and Oxycontin
• PTSD Research Quarterly - Volume 30/NO. 2, 2019
• How is the Second World War trauma passed to the next generation?
• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 13(4), August 2019
• Meaningful PTSD symptom decrease may lower type 2 diabetes risk

Resilience

• The scientific effort to protect babies from trauma before it happens
• Trauma-sensitive yoga can be a great coping tool and here's how to bring it into your practice
• Why self-regulation is the most important thing in the world
• How Sesame Street talks about trauma
• How to foster resilience, kindness and joy in your children

Schools

• Delaware police to notify schools when a student experiences trauma at home
• When schools cause trauma
• Whatever happened to 'unstructured' playtime?
• Many youngsters aren't ready for kindergarten, pediatricians say
• Baltimore school's mission: Help students cope with trauma
• Providing a safe-space for effective teaching and learning after trauma
• The case for a trauma-informed approach
• Local school supports students' mental health with new mindfulness room
• Ted Talk Video: How to Prevent School Shootings

Substance Use Disorder

• New Hampshire study shines light on strong link between childhood traumas, substance misuse later in life
• Opioid use recovery requires persistence, range of services
• Bad news-good news: Each additional ACE increases opioid relapse rate by 17%; each ACE-informed treatment visit reduces it by 2%

Trainings

• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care
• Trauma Sensitive Schools Train the Trainer 
• Trauma Sensitive Schools Networking Meeting
• Trauma Sensitive Schools Coaching to Universal Implementation

Trauma-Informed Care

• Angry hope: Moving towards healing-centered engagement after trauma
• Texas health centers embrace trauma-informed care for victims of child separation, disasters and violence 
• Do no harm: A media code of conduct for interviewing trauma survivors
• How 'trauma-informed' is your organization?
• Top 7 signs you're treating a human-trafficking victim- and how to respond
• New manual equips healthcare providers to treat trauma holistically across diverse populations
• Better child abuse fatality reviews are key to overhauling child welfare
• Building a trauma-informed network - One health plan's approach
• Informal spaces serve to heal community trauma
• Sanctuary Model comes to Atlanta

Violence

• Domestic violence; 'Women bear the brunt' of violence in La Crosse
• "I'd have saved years if someone had asked": Mental health services must ask about abuse
• Intergenerational impacts of family violence - Mothers and children in a large prospective pregnancy cohort study

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