There is still time for you to register for the 2024 Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit May 7-9! Join this event in person in the Wisconsin Dells or online. Your registration fee gives you access to five keynote presentations and more than 30 workshops focused on strategies to build healthy communities. See the topics that will be covered and information on how to register to attend. CEUs are available.?

ACEs, adversity's impact?

• Alexithymia as a mediator of the associations between child maltreatment and internalizing and externalizing behaviors in adolescence

• Expanding the ACEs index beyond the household: A gendered assessment of the adversity-delinquency nexus

• Application of the adverse childhood experiences framework to the NICU

• Bullying in early adolescence impairs interpersonal trust, worsens mental health

• Why we need to know about our patients' history of trauma

• Centering pediatric research, advocacy, and clinical care around early relational health

• Self-concept mediates the relationships between childhood traumatic experiences and adolescent depression in both clinical and community samples

• Adverse childhood experiences screening in healthcare settings: A focus on pediatric primary care

• The consequences of abuse, neglect, and bullying on the wellbeing of the young

• Adverse childhood experiences dramatically increase depression risk

• Do stress and trauma really make you age faster?

• Routine screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) still doesn't make sense

• The tragic truth about sexual abuse and autism

Brain and biology

• Inhibiting neurons involved in the body's stress response may reduce alcohol use

• How childhood stress influences gene activity and increases the risk of mental illness

• Epigenome-wide association study on methamphetamine dependence

• Trauma causes physical changes in the brain causing it to overreact in some instances

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• Report: America?s growing movement to divert youth out of the justice system

• Experiencing racial discrimination impacts the mental health of teens in the U.S. justice system

Posttraumatic stress disorder and moral injury

• PTSD Monthly Update - March 2024

• PTSD Research Quarterly - Volume 35/NO. 2, 2024

• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 18(2), April 2024

• Can vagus nerve stimulation boost mood and emotional health?

• Trained dogs can sniff post-traumatic stress disorder from your breath

• Unraveling PTSD: From trauma to dementia

• Mental health wellness for first responders

• Embodied disclosure therapy: An approach for moral injury

Resilience

• Podcast: Responsibility, burnout, and self-care?

• The harms of adverse childhood experiences are well-known. But positive experiences can affect future health, too

• 4 ways healing from trauma can enrich your life

• Supporting trauma healing in the workplace

• Reading with children who experienced trauma will improve their future

Schools

• Trauma-informed schools for students with learning differences

• Teachers need trauma-informed care, too

• Child trafficking: What school nurses need to know

Substance use disorder

Infographics: Latest Data: Combination Drug Use Increases Overdoses

Trainings

• Introducing PTSD Treatments to Your Patient: Learning from the Patient Perspective

• Trauma-Informed Teams

• Exploring Strategies School Systems can Utilize to Support Black Students Who Encounter Racial Stress and Trauma

• Harm Reduction Symposium: Safety, Compassion, and Dignity: A One-Day Symposium on Harm Reduction, Healing Justice, and Mental Health Approaches

Trauma-informed care

• Podcast: Tennessee practitioners are helping clients heal from trauma

• Pelvic exam guidelines have changed. Here?s what to expect.

• Promoting psychological safety through DEI principles

• How the U.S. can become trauma-informed

• The Playing Field is bringing trauma-informed childcare to the East Side

• Trauma-informed care-paign increased awareness in 2 pediatric EDs

• How a trauma-informed organization leads to intentional care, support for the care team

• Neurodiverse affirming and trauma-informed care

Violence

• Virtual Coalition Meeting: May 2024 WISE Initiative for Stigma Elimination - Child, Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health: The Impact of Violence

• Children betrayed: The unseen victims of domestic violence and how law enforcement can better protect them

• Physical intimate partner violence and emotional harm in five U.S. states

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