Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

ACEs, Adversity's Impact 

• Adverse childhood experiences and household food insecurity: Findings from the 2016 national survey on children's health
• How adverse childhood experiences cost $1.33 trillion a year
• Adverse childhood experiences: Implications for offspring telomere length and psychopathology
• Repeated periods of poverty accelerate the aging process
• Childhood trauma, body dysmorphic disorder, and plastic surgery addiction
• One way childhood trauma leads to poorer health for women
• Adverse childhood experiences...why is hugging so very critical?
• California's Surgeon General readies statewide screening for child trauma
• Even mother's mild depressive symptoms affect the child's emotional well-being
• 'Not just touchy-feely psychobabble': Even infants need mental health care

Brain and Biology

• How relapse happens: Opiates reduce the brain's ability to form, maintain synapses
• Social isolation derails brain development in mice
• Neuroimaging study provides new insights into how trauma changes the brain

Bullying

• How bullying may shape adolescent brains 
• New algorithm can distinguish cyberbullies from normal Twitter users with 90% accuracy

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

Does abuse lead to incarceration for girls? Usually yes

DHS Career Opportunity

Opioid Response Planning Analyst

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Breaking the silence: Mental health matters for first responders
• How I learned to process trauma in my policing career
• Women are more likely to suffer PTSD. What does that mean for nurses?
• Women with PTSD symptoms have increased risk of overian cancer
• Why it's tough being a cop
• Study: Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder by exposure and/or cognitive restructuring

Resilience

• High social support associated with less violence among male teens in urban neighborhoods
• For kids who face trauma, good neighbors or teachers can save their long-term health
• Supportive relationships in childhood leads to longer lives
• How to let go
• New guide: A guide to serve and return: How your interaction with children can build brains

Schools

• Helping students develop self-regulation
• How caring for students in distress can take a steep toll
• Perspective valuable for Oklahoma's top teacher

Trauma-Informed Care

• Workshop: Enhancing Family Engagement by Understanding Cultural and Historical Trauma
• Workshop: Trauma-Informed Care for Therapists
• Indigenous 20-somethings work to end trauma with their generation
• Unconditional love: Faith leaders as agents of change in the ACEs and resilience movement
• Conference: 2019 Utah Trauma Academy, October 21-25, 2019
• Making medicine more compassionate
• What is trauma, and can mindfulness help treat it?

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