Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Trauma-Informed News and Notes, May 2024

ACEs, adversity's impact 

* Knowing when your teenager is mentally unwell and how to show support [ [link removed] ]
* Borderline personality traits mediate the relationship between negative life events and nonsuicidal self-injury in a clinical sample with youth depression [ [link removed] ] [ [link removed] ]
* Psychological trauma can worsen symptom burden at end-of-life [ [link removed] ]
* 75% of Americans think mental health issues are treated worse than physical illness, new survey says. Here’s why [ [link removed] ]
* Child maltreatment linked to externalizing, internalizing behavior [ [link removed] ]
* How can you tell if your child has depression? [ [link removed] ]
* Adults who suffered adverse childhood experiences report lower engagement with healthcare services [ [link removed] ]
* A man plunged to his death in front of me. I can’t get it out of my mind. [ [link removed] ]
* Bullying may affect dental health, say researchers [ [link removed] ]
* From pregnancy to the postpartum: Unraveling the complexities of symptom profiles among trauma-exposed women [ [link removed] ]
* Conscious memories of childhood maltreatment strongly associated with psychopathology [ [link removed] ]
* Difficult lives explain depression better than broken brains [ [link removed] ]
* Adverse experiences have surprisingly little impact on worldviews and ideologies [ [link removed] ]
* The roles of trauma and mental health in preventing domestic radicalization and violent extremism [ [link removed] ]
* Childhood trauma linked to higher rates of somatic symptoms, study finds [ [link removed] ]
* Why do we dismiss non-physical trauma? [ [link removed] ]
* Most homeless Americans are battling mental illness [ [link removed] ]
* How much do adverse childhood experiences contribute to adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms? Evidence from the longitudinal study of Australian children [ [link removed] ]
* Relational trauma: Why am I so negative? [ [link removed] ]
* Mental health conditions leading cause of maternal mortality [ [link removed] ]
* Birth mother's trauma can still affect kids adopted as newborns [ [link removed] ]

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Brain and biology

* Video: Connecting the Brain to the Rest of the Body: Early Childhood Development and Lifelong Health Are Deeply Intertwined [ [link removed] ]
* Relationship found between creatine in the brain and recovery from traumatic stress [ [link removed] ]
* How trauma gets ‘under the skin’ [ [link removed] ]
* Genome-wide association analyses identify 95 risk loci and provide insights into the neurobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder [ [link removed] ]
* Beneficial effects of mindfulness-based intervention on hippocampal volumes and episodic memory for childhood adversity survivors [ [link removed] ]

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Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

* ‘Consequences of war’–Veterans incarcerated at higher rates and face longer sentences [ [link removed] ]
* Innovative jail program to support children of incarcerated parents expands [ [link removed] ]
* Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model [ [link removed] ]
* Family violence court specializes in identifying the root cause of criminal behavior [ [link removed] ]

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Posttraumatic stress disorder

* Webinar: You Are Not Alone: The Intersection of LGBTQIA+ and PTSD  [ [link removed] ]
* Deconstructing the word trauma: What does it mean today? [ [link removed] ]
* Efficacy of EMDR for early intervention after a traumatic event: A systematic review and meta-analysis [ [link removed] ]
* Is this actually PTSD? Clinicians divided over redefining borderline personality disorder [ [link removed] ]
* The science behind chronic stress [ [link removed] ]
* Can playing Tetris help prevent PTSD if you’ve witnessed something traumatic? [ [link removed] ]
* Silo pharma announces positive results for intranasal PTSD treatment [ [link removed] ]
* Emotional state transitions in trauma-exposed individuals with and without posttraumatic stress disorder [ [link removed] ]
* Revisiting eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and discussion of the American Psychological Association’s 2017 recommendations [ [link removed] ]

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Resilience

* Book: The end of trauma: How the new science of resilience is changing how we think of PTSD [ [link removed] ]
* Exploring the biological basis for resilience [ [link removed] ]
* Place Matters: The environment we create shapes the foundations of healthy development [ [link removed] ]
* Here’s how nature refreshes your mind and manages stress [ [link removed] ]
* Maternal grandmothers play crucial role in buffering grandchildren's adversity [ [link removed] ]
* Positive childhood experiences protect against depression in teens [ [link removed] ]

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Substance use disorder

* SUDs in women and the importance of tailored treatment approaches [ [link removed] ]
* Reclaiming meaning in life after addiction, stress, and pain [ [link removed] ]
* Associations of cannabis use, use frequency, and cannabis use disorder with violent behavior among young adults in the United States [ [link removed] ]
* Intergenerational substance use among black women with trauma [ [link removed] ]
* Mandatory child protective services reporting for substance-exposed newborns and peripartum outcomes; A difference-in-differences analysis [ [link removed] ]

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Trainings

* Triple P: Positive Parenting Program [ [link removed] ]
* Video from the Center for Victims of Torture: Mindful Movements [ [link removed] ]
* Mindful Movements webinar training materials [ [link removed] ]

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Trauma-informed care

* Assessing the Persian International Trauma Questionnaire: A psychometric study [ [link removed] ]
* Efficacy of two brief trauma-focused writing interventions in comparison to positive experiences writing: A randomized controlled trial [ [link removed] ]
* Compassionate mobile mental health trauma units to work with cops [ [link removed] ]
* Push for better trauma-informed care of victim-survivors of sexual assault [ [link removed] ]
* Breaking the silence: The mounting need for trauma-informed hospice care [ [link removed] ]
* Poverty and homelessness need a trauma-sensitive approach, advocates say [ [link removed] ]
* A World of differences: The science of human variation can drive early childhood policies and programs to bigger impacts [ [link removed] ]
* IKEA introduces small home project complete with trauma-informed design [ [link removed] ]
* Implementing trauma-informed care—Settings, definitions, interventions, measures, and implementation across settings: A scoping review [ [link removed] ]
* Trauma-informed approach enhances substance use disorder care, appeals to payers [ [link removed] ]
* “Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire”: Reflections on trauma [ [link removed] ]
* Vicarious trauma: What to do when others’ distress impacts your well-being [ [link removed] ]
* Caring for traumatized elders: Lessons learned from trauma-informed care [ [link removed] ]

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Violence

* The association between psychological distress, abusive experiences, and help-seeking among people with intimate partner violence [ [link removed] ]
* Easing the trauma for children who witness domestic violence [ [link removed] ]


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