Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes, June 2022

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ACEs, adversity's impact 

• THE RULE documentary film trailer

• There’s no mystery to what happened in Uvalde; there were many opportunities to prevent it 

• The association of childhood adversities and mental health problems with dual-harm in individuals with serious aggressive behaviors

• Trauma and homelessness – how services need to change

• Physical abuse less likely when spanking is eliminated

• What happens when kids experience a traumatic event?

• Pregnant moms and depression: Study links rising symptoms to kids' behavioral issues

• The unspoken abuse: When the adult child abuses the parent

• Suicide takes more military lives than combat, especially among women

• To prevent mass shootings, don’t bother with motive; do a forensic ACEs investigation

• We must do more to address adverse childhood experiences to stop school shootings

• Adult asthma, depression, and childhood maltreatment

• Childhood circumstances and personality traits are associated with loneliness in older age

• Trauma is a leading mental health challenge that tests both mind and body  

• How children’s mental health is impacted after experiencing trauma

Brain and biology

• Can vagus nerve stimulation really help with trauma?

• Brain activity may play role in childhood trauma victims’ heart disease risk

• Parents' unpredictable behavior may impair optimal brain circuit formation

• Study examines why the memory of fear is seared into our brains

• New research shows no evidence of structural brain change with short-term mindfulness training

• How mass shootings affect our brains even if we aren't directly harmed

• Resiliency and the brain

• The fading of negative experiences: Active suppression weakens unwanted memories

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• Stop ‘Locking up motherhood’: Texas study

• In historic shift, far fewer teens face adult US courts

• A #MeToo crisis for incarcerated girls

DHS career opportunities

• Communications outreach specialist
• Communications specialist-advanced
• Director of psychology
• Licensed practical nurse
• Nursing instructor
• Psychological consultant
• Substance use counselor
• Therapy assistant
• Weekend registered nurse

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Posttraumatic stress disorder and moral injury

• Resource: PTSD Treatment Decision Aid
• Booklet: Understand PTSD and PTSD Treatment

• Helping first responders and veterans heal from addiction and PTSD

• How telling your story in Narrative Therapy may help heal trauma

• This could be the root cause of employees’ low engagement according to neuroscience

• How to talk to your kids about the Uvalde school shooting: 'You don’t want to overshare'

• Assume every child has PTSD these days until proven otherwise

• Coping with anxiety after the death of a parent

• Mass violence takes toll on Americans’ psyches

• 7 reminders to carry with you on your trauma recovery journey

• Stella launches "Your Trauma is Valid" campaign to challenge how society justifies emotional traumas

• We don't feel safe': Many Black Americans experiencing grief, trauma after Buffalo shooting

• Does trauma cause memory loss? It's possible

• Insults, criticism and unhappy experiences: how the politicization of science has trivialized trauma

• How to talk to your employer about trauma

Resilience

• Feeling anxious? Acupuncture can help

• Yoga builds resilience through trauma informed care

• How can art therapy help with trauma?

• How to get ahead of stress before it overwhelms you

• COVID-19 broke my hamster wheel and I am better for it

• Infographic: What we can do about toxic stress

• 5 research-backed ways to process and heal from trauma

• Start finding authentic connections after complex PTSD

• Growth after trauma

Schools

• How burned out are you? A scale for teachers
• Resource: Helping K-12 educators support students who have experienced trauma

• How 3 school leaders are preventing and responding to bullying

• Children in remote school faced more sleep, behavior and social challenges

Substance use disorder

• Patient Journey Map: Substance use disorder treatment and recovery experiences

• What is success in treatment for opioid use disorder? Perspectives of physicians and patients in primary care settings

• Deaths from alcohol use disorder surged during pandemic, study finds

• Adverse childhood experiences and comorbidity in a cohort of people who have injected drugs

• Opioid use disorder training in med school improves awareness of patient needs

• The Blackfeet Nation’s plight underscores the Fentanyl crisis on reservations (khn.org)

• Mental health and substance use among homeless adolescents in the US

• The power of local research to inform adverse childhood experiences in substance use prevention in adolescents and adults

Trainings

• Webinar: Parental ACEs and PCEs in Pediatric Primary Care
• Inspired parenting: Parenting from an attachment/trauma perspective

Trauma-informed care

• Trauma informed care: Moving to resilience through art

• The Trauma-informed ACE screening and intervention evaluation Project ECHO is changing the standard of pediatric care

• Trauma-informed dentistry: Trauma-informed care: What to look for, and how to help

• How a health care model that acknowledges trauma can help kids, and communities, heal

• Leader of Heal PA says its 'beautiful and ingenious' design will sustain the movement to create a trauma-informed state

• Adverse childhood experiences may underlie neurologic conditions:
  A call to action for awareness about trauma-informed neurology

• What is the Window of Tolerance, and why is it so important?

• Trauma-informed America: What are cross-sector community coalitions and how can congress support them?

• Levelling the playing field: How a trauma-informed approach can make physical activity more accessible

• Fighting trauma with martial arts: Milwaukee program shows new look for recovery

• 7 organizational strategies for resilience

• Integrating trauma-informed care into career counseling: A response to COVID-19 job loss for Black, indigenous, and people of color

• Is it the right time for a paradigm shift in mental health care delivery?

• What is trauma-informed care?

• Trauma-informed custody scheme introduced for detained children

• Bringing trauma-informed design to transitional housing for women and children

• How social workers can practice trauma-informed care

• How sexual trauma survivors can feel more relaxed during a pelvic exam

• Avoiding abbreviations boosts patient understanding of their health records

Violence

• How to have trauma-informed conversations with survivors of domestic violence
• How domestic violence may affect children
• ‘All these people with lived experience are not being heard’: what family violence survivors want policy makers to know

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