CUMMING, Ga. — More than three years ago, Sherry Ajluni got a call no mother would ever want to receive. Her 21-year-old...
For the past several years, researchers and practitioners around the country have been promoting “trauma-informed” projects and policies. The emergence of the...
I don’t think rape is funny, and I don’t find jokes about rape entertaining. A lot of people might feel the same...
The House of Representatives Wednesday passed a new farm bill, which includes cuts the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), often referred...
“Our children” are routinely trotted out (sometimes with sincerity) as public relations tools to sell various agendas politicians and interest groups push....
Following her teen son’s suicide, Tina Long leads a charge to change how schools respond to bullying incidents. Photo courtesy Tina...
People who work with children and teens may have suspected a growing reliance on prescription drugs to treat a variety of mental-health....
Considerations of culture in mental-health treatment takes center stage in “Elements of Culture and Mental Health: Critical Questions for Clinicians” a handbook...
By the time Cheryl Sharp was 18 years old, she had attempted to end her own life on three separate occasions. Her...
Dr. Matthew Wintersteen, director of research at the Thomas Jefferson University Medical College’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, spent five years...
Sexual violence against girls (and women) is an accepted part of American culture, particularly when carried out by privileged males. This is...
The last time I went to rehab, I had no hope,” admits 24-year-old Kaylee Vanderhoof, regrettably. “I did not care if I...