ACEs, adversity's impact 

• Knowing when your teenager is mentally unwell and how to show support
• Borderline personality traits mediate the relationship between negative life events and nonsuicidal self-injury in a clinical sample with youth depression
• Psychological trauma can worsen symptom burden at end-of-life
• 75% of Americans think mental health issues are treated worse than physical illness, new survey says. Here’s why
• Child maltreatment linked to externalizing, internalizing behavior
• How can you tell if your child has depression?
• Adults who suffered adverse childhood experiences report lower engagement with healthcare services
• A man plunged to his death in front of me. I can’t get it out of my mind.
• Bullying may affect dental health, say researchers
• From pregnancy to the postpartum: Unraveling the complexities of symptom profiles among trauma-exposed women
• Conscious memories of childhood maltreatment strongly associated with psychopathology
• Difficult lives explain depression better than broken brains
• Adverse experiences have surprisingly little impact on worldviews and ideologies
• The roles of trauma and mental health in preventing domestic radicalization and violent extremism
• Childhood trauma linked to higher rates of somatic symptoms, study finds
• Why do we dismiss non-physical trauma?
• Most homeless Americans are battling mental illness
• How much do adverse childhood experiences contribute to adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms? Evidence from the longitudinal study of Australian children
• Relational trauma: Why am I so negative?
• Mental health conditions leading cause of maternal mortality
• Birth mother's trauma can still affect kids adopted as newborns

Brain and biology

• Video: Connecting the Brain to the Rest of the Body: Early Childhood Development and Lifelong Health Are Deeply Intertwined
• Relationship found between creatine in the brain and recovery from traumatic stress
• How trauma gets ‘under the skin’
• Genome-wide association analyses identify 95 risk loci and provide insights into the neurobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder
• Beneficial effects of mindfulness-based intervention on hippocampal volumes and episodic memory for childhood adversity survivors

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• ‘Consequences of war’–Veterans incarcerated at higher rates and face longer sentences
• Innovative jail program to support children of incarcerated parents expands
• Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model
• Family violence court specializes in identifying the root cause of criminal behavior

Posttraumatic stress disorder

• Webinar: You Are Not Alone: The Intersection of LGBTQIA+ and PTSD 
• Deconstructing the word trauma: What does it mean today?
• Efficacy of EMDR for early intervention after a traumatic event: A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Is this actually PTSD? Clinicians divided over redefining borderline personality disorder
• The science behind chronic stress
• Can playing Tetris help prevent PTSD if you’ve witnessed something traumatic?
• Silo pharma announces positive results for intranasal PTSD treatment
• Emotional state transitions in trauma-exposed individuals with and without posttraumatic stress disorder
• Revisiting eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and discussion of the American Psychological Association’s 2017 recommendations

Resilience

• Book: The end of trauma: How the new science of resilience is changing how we think of PTSD
• Exploring the biological basis for resilience
• Place Matters: The environment we create shapes the foundations of healthy development
• Here’s how nature refreshes your mind and manages stress
• Maternal grandmothers play crucial role in buffering grandchildren's adversity
• Positive childhood experiences protect against depression in teens

Substance use disorder

• SUDs in women and the importance of tailored treatment approaches
• Reclaiming meaning in life after addiction, stress, and pain
• Associations of cannabis use, use frequency, and cannabis use disorder with violent behavior among young adults in the United States
• Intergenerational substance use among black women with trauma
• Mandatory child protective services reporting for substance-exposed newborns and peripartum outcomes; A difference-in-differences analysis

Trainings

• Triple P: Positive Parenting Program
• Video from the Center for Victims of Torture: Mindful Movements
• Mindful Movements webinar training materials

Trauma-informed care

• Assessing the Persian International Trauma Questionnaire: A psychometric study
• Efficacy of two brief trauma-focused writing interventions in comparison to positive experiences writing: A randomized controlled trial
• Compassionate mobile mental health trauma units to work with cops
• Push for better trauma-informed care of victim-survivors of sexual assault
• Breaking the silence: The mounting need for trauma-informed hospice care
• Poverty and homelessness need a trauma-sensitive approach, advocates say
• A World of differences: The science of human variation can drive early childhood policies and programs to bigger impacts
• IKEA introduces small home project complete with trauma-informed design
• Implementing trauma-informed care—Settings, definitions, interventions, measures, and implementation across settings: A scoping review
• Trauma-informed approach enhances substance use disorder care, appeals to payers
• “Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire”: Reflections on trauma
• Vicarious trauma: What to do when others’ distress impacts your well-being
• Caring for traumatized elders: Lessons learned from trauma-informed care

Violence

• The association between psychological distress, abusive experiences, and help-seeking among people with intimate partner violence
• Easing the trauma for children who witness domestic violence

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