For any best practice to achieve scale within the nation’s child welfare prevention programs, it must fit within the ...

Parent Psychotherapy doesn’t just heal emotional wounds — it repairs a biological process that could benefit kids for life.

Decades after a landmark study showed the lasting health effects of such trauma, researchers are finding ways to guard ...

In an earlier post, I talked about child neglect (known as an "act of omission"). On the other end of the spectrum of child abuse is physical abuse, an act of commission. According to U.S. Department ...

Most recently, DSM modifications for PTSD included a subtype group for children aged younger than 6 years. 18 Research has shown when diagnostic criteria that are sensitive to child developmental ...

An 11-year-old domestic worker, who was allegedly subjected to prolonged physical abuse, is suffering from severe ...

My family went to family therapy once. And by once, I mean literally one time. I remember the four of us sitting in this dimly lit room with bay windows that overlooked the rotary in the center of ...

Sandy Hook counselors explain how communities should respond and prepare. This is a MedPage Today story. Three days after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, social worker and child ...

One of the largest research analyses regarding the frequency of childhood trauma and its effects in adults is the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). 14 The ACE study was led by Kaiser Permanente (KP ...