Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

ACEs, Adversity's Impact 

• Lessons learned integrating ACEs science into health clinics: Staff first, THEN patients
• Launching a revolution
• Stress is a key to understanding many social determinants of health
• Is trauma driving some eating disorders?
• Adverse childhood experiences: What we know, what we don't know, and what should happen next
• Childhood maltreatment initiates a developmental cascade that leads to relationship dysfunction in emerging adulthood
• Report reveals link between poverty, ADHD
• 6 ways trauma might inform your current life
• Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and headaches among children: A cross-sectional analysis
• Study reveals persistent sleep difficulties in infancy linked to heightened risk of childhood anxieties
• Adverse childhood experience: The long-term impact on children who do not heal
• Associations of adverse childhood experiences with educational attainment and adolescent health and the role of family and socioeconomic factors: A prospective cohort study in the UK
• Domestic sex trafficking: Hidden in plain sight

Brain and Biology

• New findings reveal how early life trauma may contribute to functional neurological disorder
• Empathy can be detected in people whose brains are at rest
• Rat study shows childhood trauma can change the brain (But it can be changed back)
• The Brain Architects Podcast: Serve and Return: Supporting the Foundation
• Hope for PTSD patients as scientists discover how fear forms in the brain

Bullying

• Sibling bullying and abuse
• Weight-based bullying linked to increased adolescent alcohol, marijuana use

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

• 'They outperformed everyone': How training can transform an incarcerated workforce
• Call it what it is: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from life in prison
• Juvenile Justice Resource Hub
• How to end racial bias in juvenile justice risk-needs assessments

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Why the term "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" is disempowering
• Clinician's Trauma Update - February 2020 Issue: Vol. 14(1)
• Widowhood increases risk of Alzheimer's,  study says
• PTSD Monthly Update - February 2020
• Self-help post-natal PTSD strategies insufficient, study finds

Resilience

• Resilience and adverse childhood experiences: Associations with poor mental health among homeless adults
• Compassion-based program for parents reduces their children's stress- even when it doesn't reduce parents' stress
• Study finds indigenous culture boosts children's outcomes
• 4 factors that may lower PTSD risk and bolster resilience
• Shake it off: How to get trauma out of your body
• Breaking the cycle: Healing intergenerational trauma
• Parenting is not about controlling your child
• Increasing resilience: Primary healthcare providers' opportunities to promote protective factors before and after childhood trauma
• If you can save only a few things, save someone's childhood

Schools

• Trauma-informed practice is a powerful tool. But it's also incomplete
• The absence of punishment in our schools
• Helping preschoolers work through trauma, one breath at a time
• Inside a preschool that treats the youngest victims of the opioid crisis
• As more children show symptoms of trauma, Head Start programs expend support services

Substance Use Disorder

• The damaging effects on children with drug addicted parents
• The 'opposite of addiction' theory: How community can drive recovery 

Trainings

• Wisconsin Hawthorn Project - Upcoming training events
• Introduction to trauma informed schools
• Trauma sensitive schools train the trainer
• Introduction to the seven essential ingredients (7ei) of trauma informed care
• Trauma informed care train the trainer
• The Foundations of Wisconsin Wraparound

Trauma-Informed Care

• Are we ready to support survivors of of childhood trauma in the workplace?
• What does it mean to be trauma-informed and resilience-oriented?
• Measuring trauma-informed care series
• A compassionate look at "Borderline Personality Disorder" from a trauma-informed lens 
• Free Webinar: Measuring trauma-informed care
• Trauma-informed toolkit for legal professionals
• Case Western Reserve University research finds high rates of trauma exposure, PTSD symptoms for those in drug court

Violence

• Teaching teens about healthy relationships, consent key to preventing dating violence
• What we've learned: Highlights from intimate partner homicide report

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