Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes, October 2022

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ACEs, adversity's impact?

• Video: How early childhood experiences affect lifelong health and learning
• Three in four teens faced potentially traumatic events during the pandemic
• The loss of cultural identity and neurological dysregulation
• Homelessness is a journey that starts in the family
• Understanding the impact of trauma at any age
• Connection between chronic pain and trauma
• A history of stressors and childhood trauma may predict worse menopausal symptoms and well-being
• Associations of childhood trauma with long-term diseases and alcohol and nicotine use disorders in Czech and Slovak representative samples
• Important souls: Anna?s story a sad tale through an abusive mental health?system

Brain and biology

• The relationship between chronic PTSD, cortical volumetry and white matter microstructure among Australian combat veterans
• Timing of vagus nerve stimulation during fear extinction determines efficacy in a rat model of PTSD
• Can we rewrite fearful memories to treat anxiety?

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

A chance for change: how trauma awareness is challenging Scotland?s justice system

DHS jobs

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Posttraumatic stress disorder and moral injury

• Diagnosing and treating PTSD and complex PTSD: It's not about ?What?s wrong with you??
• Understanding the history of PTSD
• Parents of children with ICD more likely to have PTSD than child
• Moral injury is an invisible epidemic that affects millions
• What are dissociation and depersonalization?
• Healing from the past and living in your present
• Efforts to prevent military suicide plagued by incomplete data and continued stigma, expert says

Resilience

• Moving forward after adverse childhood experiences

• Strategies to support healthy relationships for American Indian and Alaska Native fathers

• Kids are suffering from toxic stress. Here?s some advice on how we can help them heal

• Post-traumatic growth: What you need to know
• Defining embodiment

• Experiment reveals that a one-hour walk in nature reduces amygdala activity, which may protect mental health

Schools

• Resource: Teaching Proactively: How proactive interventions led to sustainable results at
  Edgewood Elementary School
• A need for systemic change: Why Black girls are four times more likely to get suspended than white girls

Substance use disorder

• Paramedics can help combat the opioid epidemic
• PTSD and comorbid substance abuse are associated with a cellular marker for early death

Trainings and conferences

• Wellpoint Care Network TIC training opportunities for October 2022
• Collective grief, colective healing conference

Trauma-informed care

• Podcast: What you need to know about trauma-informed lawyering

• E-Book: Creating a trauma-informed system of care: Addressing individuals, professionals, and organizations

• Using trauma-informed care to help communities heal: Q & A with Brenda Mosley

• Trauma-informed care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Health, care and social services should be designed to be sensitive to people?s shame, experts urge

• Research supports expansion of insurance-covered trauma screening nationwide

• What doctors wish patients knew about trauma-informed care

• "Walking the talk" with parallel process

• Is trauma-informed yoga The future of therapy?

• Trauma in your past? It affects who you are and how you react today

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