Trauma-Informed Care
Katrina Buerger2025-04-28T12:45:28-05:00By healthcaretoolbox.org
A guide for patients and caregivers to advocate for trauma-informed care in all aspects of healthcare.
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After the Trauma: Helping My Child Cope
Katrina Buerger2025-04-28T12:40:02-05:00By The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Nemours / Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
A helpful toolbox to assist parents with what they can do and say to help their child cope after a traumatic event.
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The Power of Mindfulness
Katrina Buerger2025-03-26T11:09:21-05:00Mindfulness is a meditation practice that helps you calm down. It starts with focusing on your breathing. It helps you stay in the present instead of worrying about the past or future. There are many benefits of mindfulness for teenagers, and even young kids. It […]
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Katrina Buerger2025-03-26T11:05:22-05:00By CDC
ACEs are common. About 64% of adults in the United States reported they had experienced at least one type of ACE before age 18. Nearly one in six (17.3%) adults reported they had experienced four or more types of ACEs.
Three in four high school students reported experiencing one or more ACEs, […]
It Happened Here: Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence
Katrina Buerger2025-03-05T12:57:09-06:00By NYP History
Every time she was turned away, Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, whose career began at NewYork-Presbyterian in the 1940s, found a new opportunity to succeed, eventually becoming the first African American female psychoanalyst in the United States and the first Black female physician certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. Throughout […]
The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Developing Bipolar Disorder
Katrina Buerger2025-03-05T12:48:03-06:00By Yann Quidé, Leonardo Tozzi, Mark Corcoran, Dara M Cannon, Maria R Dauvermann
Childhood trauma (CT) has been repeatedly linked to earlier onset and greater severity of bipolar disorder (BD) in adulthood. However, such knowledge is mostly based on retrospective and cross-sectional studies in adults with BD. […]
Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse in the #MeToo Era
Katrina Buerger2025-01-24T17:09:30-06:00By Nickolas Agathis, MD
Do you keep up with any modern social movements, such as #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter or #KeepFamiliesTogether? The conversations surrounding them are still grabbing widespread attention through social media and news headlines across the globe. Fortunately, the collective power and influence behind these movements can shift attitudes, promote awareness, bring communities […]
Immigrant Health is Interpersonal
Katrina Buerger2025-01-24T17:05:27-06:00By Amanda Venta, PhD
Waves of Latinx immigration to the United States have changed in recent decades, and our scientific literature is only beginning to catch up. Regional violence and unrest in the Northern Triangle of Central America (i.e., El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala) have pushed families to seek asylum in the U.S. […]
Essential Elements of a Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice System
Katrina Buerger2024-12-17T14:35:27-06:00NCTSN
Trauma-informed policies and procedures make juvenile justice organizations safer and more effective by ensuring the physical and psychological safety of all youth, family members, and staff and promoting their recovery from the adverse effects of trauma. Juvenile justice policies and procedures are trauma-informed when they establish—at every level in the organization—a culture […]
How Childhood Trauma Can Impact the Brain
Katrina Buerger2024-12-17T14:47:11-06:00Written by Kaytee Gillis, LCSW
A recent study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging finds that childhood trauma can lead to disruptions in two main regions of the brain, the default mode network (DMN) and the central executive network (CEN). As these areas are responsible for emotional regulation, memory processing, and stress response, this research points to the connection between childhood […]