The spring conference season is here. Visit the Wisconsin Department of Health Services exhibit at the events listed below to pick up Resilient Wisconsin materials. March 13-15: Governor's Conference on Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Lake Geneva March 14-15: Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling Annual Conference, Waukesha April 11-12: Peer Recovery Conference, Wisconsin Dells April 26-27: NAMI Wisconsin Annual Conference, Rothschild

ACEs, adversity's impact

• The impact of trauma on gay men's mental health

• Adverse childhood experiences and anxiety contribute to chronic pain in adults

• Adverse childhood experiences among U.S. adults: National and state estimates by adversity type, 2019-2020

• 5 painful signs you have PTSD caused by betrayal trauma

• A longitudinal study in worrisome sexual behavior following sexual abuse in infancy or early childhood: The Amsterdam Sexual Abuse Case

• Linking adverse childhood experiences and other risk factors to subjective cognitive decline in an aging population

Brain and biology

• The association between PTSD symptoms and DNA methylation in soldiers: A new frontier in understanding and treatment

• Illuminating brain inhibition

• Brain protein discovery could lead to memory loss and PTSD treatment

• Largest childhood trauma study reveals brain rewiring

• Understanding the link between brain, stress, and immune system: A new pathway for treating trauma-related disorders

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

Trauma reawakened: Women?s bodies and imprisonment

Posttraumatic stress disorder and moral injury

• Video: Complicated: Healing from complex PTSD

• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 18(1), February 2024

• PTSD Research Quarterly - Volume 35/NO. 1, 2024

• Administrative betrayal: Why the silence of leaders is the greatest trauma for many LEOs

• New study provides insights into MDMA?s potential for improving self-experience in PTSD patients

• Unlocking emotional healing: the power of EMDR therapy

• Trauma?s impact on memory: New insights from the Beckman Institute

• Why interpersonal trauma is more about shame than fear

• How moral distress is eating away at teachers

• Beyond moral injury - Can we reclaim agency, belief, and joy in medicine?

• Potential causal association between gut microbiome and posttraumatic stress disorder

• The hidden toll: How organizational trauma stifles productivity and sabotages the mission

• Microcurrent neurofeedback therapy improves depression, anxiety, PTSD

Resilience

• The power of caring adulthood experiences

• Can I really be happy after a crummy childhood?

• Childhood adult relationships crucial for mental health: Columbia University study

• Research shows that receiving warmth from a caregiver during childhood protects cardiovascular health later in life

• How to forgive your parents

• Improving the built environment prevents ACEs and creates safer communities

Schools

• Video: Understanding Trauma: Learning Brain vs. Survival Brain

• Counseling centers see a rise in traumatized students

• Trauma-informed?approaches to discipline matter for equitable and safe?schooling

Substance use disorder

• Substance use, suicidal thoughts, and psychiatric comorbidities among high school students

• Yale scientists refine model to predict risk for opioid dependence

Training

• Webinar: Preventing Secondary Trauma and Practical Self Care for Pediatric Rehabilitation Providers

• Webinar: No More "Just Fix My Kid": The FST Parent Engagement Approach

• New Lethal Combinations and Clinical Challenges - March 6 and March 20, 2024

• Psychological safety: The future of the workforce is empowerment

Trauma-informed care

• Resource: April is Family Strengthening Month

• Sample course: Client?s Experience of Trauma-Informed Care

• Trauma-informed care in psychedelic therapy research: A qualitative literature review of evidence-based psychotherapy interventions in PTSD and psychedelic therapy across conditions

• Trauma-informed care could be first continuing education requirement for Indiana RNs, LPNs

• Providing trauma-informed oncologic care to sexual and gender minority patients

• Innovative alternative approaches to healing trauma

• Promoting psychological safety through DEI principles

• Cultivating the ability to relate after relational trauma

Do not reply directly to this email message. If you have a question, email Scott Webb. Visit the DHS website for more information on Resilient Wisconsin.