Childhood Adversity/Trauma

A new study highlights the role heavy metal music plays in the mental health of adolescents facing adversity.

Race often determines whether school punishment or therapy and drugs will be used to address children’s problem behaviors.

Interventions calling attention to participants’ hypocrisy proved effective in reducing Islamophobia and collective blame of Muslims for individual acts of violence.

One author outlines the foundations of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research, addressing its dimensions, limitations, and potential future directions.

A new study suggests that epigenetic changes that have been associated with trauma may actually be due to environmental toxins.

It turns out that our stress response and inflammatory modeling are set early in our childhood. While our infant microbiome certainly lays a foundation, our beliefs and the thoughts that run like a ticker tape under our life experience cannot be underemphasized. How can we heal our pasts?

Report presents new body-based therapeutic approach for shock and complex developmental trauma.

Meta-analytic study detects upsurge in patterns of perfectionism in young adults and explores how neoliberalism contributes to this trend.

Researchers argue that a structural competency and social determinants of health approach must be made central to psychiatry training.

Structural competency in psychiatry emphasizes the social factors shaping patient presentations and encourages physician advocacy.

Scrooge’s character was forged from his own emotional pain. Indeed, we can change the course of our lives through facing and mourning that pain. Want, deprivation and cruelty create the evils of the world. Mourning and trust, in the context of love, are its antidotes. 

You can’t go back to mundane ways of seeing the world after very dark things happen. Trauma cracks open a hole in our lives and in our minds, throwing us into the zone where we face the big spiritual questions. Bad ideas can get in when things open up like that. But it’s also possible that something new and positive can get in.

Study finds the incidence of “psychosis” to vary by person and place, corresponding to factors such as race, ethnicity, age, and environment.

The daughters of children evacuated from Finland during World War II show an increased number of psychiatric hospitalizations.

Rates of suicide in prison are significantly higher than in the general population.

Researchers examine links between police victimization and psychotic symptoms in a topical new study.

Secondary factors may impair performance on cognitive tasks, making it difficult for individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia to perform to the best of their ability.

New study examines how increased screen time and social media may be contributing to depressive symptoms and suicide risk in teens

New research demonstrates that children diagnosed with ADHD at younger ages are more likely than those diagnosed later to receive multiple medications within five years of their diagnosis.

Loneliness has been linked to negative health outcomes, but there are no interventions clearly proven to ‘fix’ the problem.

Researchers recommend a ‘politically-informed focus', including activism, when assessing children and designing interventions in areas of chronic political violence.

Derek Summerfield, consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust, challenges the assumption that Western depression is a universal condition.

One study indicates that pointed fingers incriminating youth for narcissism may be pointed in the wrong direction.

Researchers find few existing "psychopathology scales" are appropriate for global utilization.

Are White Americans’ poor mental health outcomes caused by Whiteness?