Adolescence has always been a sensitive developmental stage. Research and field experience point to alarming increases in ...

Teacher preparation programs must evolve to reflect the emotional realities of today’s classrooms--including student mental ...

Hard, challenging, difficult. Painful, disorienting, life-altering. There are so many words we reach for in response to the difficult experiences of life. We feel how words fail, how they are all ...

Responding to struggling students with empathy and flexibility can benefit the whole campus. Here’s how to create a culture ...

I am an experienced clinical social worker who is passionate about serving resilient children, teenagers, young adults and single parents by working together and creating their best version of ...

Complex trauma is described as a child’s exposure to multiple events that were experienced as traumatic to that child and typically have long-term negative effects on their adult life. Complex trauma ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - Southern Illinois University Carbondale is launching the Coffman-Crothers Training Institute for Trauma and Psychological Health. It is a program designed to provide ...

A new study from the University of Georgia has found that complex post-traumatic stress disorder—a type of PTSD caused by chronic, long-lasting or repeated traumatic events—plays an important role in ...

A child may survive violence, homelessness, or other profoundly distressing circumstance, but that doesn’t mean it’s over. The stress-response system that trauma activates in the body can have ...