Schools should be ideal places for children who have faced trauma to process their experiences. Yet too often, school systems ...

On a chilly February morning, a group of parents gather with a common goal: to learn effective strategies for managing parenting challenges, and to strengthen bonds with their children. They are ...

Co-authored with Fellow Psychology Today Blogger Dr. Robert Foltz From southeast Texas to Florida, the Keys, Virgin Islands and most recently Puerto Rico, the shocking images from Hurricanes Harvey, ...

Children in foster care are among the most vulnerable and underserved populations in the education system. They experience higher rates of trauma, placement instability, learning gaps, and emotional ...

People on welfare can earn more money in their jobs — and potentially leave the program — if the trauma they’ve faced since childhood is addressed, Drexel University research shows. Think of it this ...

Georgians all have a part to play in supporting a healthy, resilient child welfare system. That includes supporting and ...

Are child-welfare investigations traumatic for families? How should we weigh that trauma against learning if children are in danger and ensuring parents change their behavior? New York City’s ...

Back in 2000, we accepted a five-week-old baby girl into our lives as foster parents. We were hoping to support her family until she could return to them. Seven months later, we got a call from the ...

By age 16, almost two‐thirds of kids have experienced trauma, such as abuse, neglect, natural disasters or sudden loss of a loved one, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Two years ago, Dr. Robert Anda, one of the authors of the original study of Adverse Childhood Experiences, cautioned that the scores from questionnaires to screen children for ACEs could be ...

“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.” Peter A. Levine “Get over it, everyone goes through some version of it”. “It’s all in your ...