Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes, January 2023

Check out the new Resilient Wisconsin video series featuring Wisconsin residents in recovery from a substance use disorder who are now helpers in their communities. This video series is designed to show there is hope and help available to people experiencing a substance use disorder. Watch the videos on the DHS website.

ACEs, adversity's impact?

• Video: When is poor parenting psychological maltreatment??

• Childhood trauma and other formative life experiences predict environmental engagement

• 6 unhealthy behaviors caused by childhood emotional neglect

• Adverse childhood experiences found to contribute to later-life cognitive decline in women in China

• Emotional neglect mistakes even loving parents can make

• Massive review study suggests psychological trauma nearly triples a person?s risk of mental disorder

• Black adults show accelerated brain aging patterns in midlife

• Racial discrimination associated with depression, insomnia, and pain in Sickle Cell disease

• Second year of pandemic took a heavy mental health toll on young adults

• Yes, sweetheart, you do get to grieve your lost childhood

• Bereavement in childhood and young adulthood and the risk of atrial fibrillation: a population-based cohort study from Denmark and Sweden

• An inside look at medications for ACE-related weight gain

• American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children are overrepresented in foster care in states with the largest proportions of AIAN children

• Dementia risk higher in people with earlier signs of psychological distress

• Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) screening effective in primary care

• The legacy of trauma in parent-child relationships

• Childhood trauma and trauma symptom expression as an adult

Brain and biology

• How the brain stores remote fear memory

• Researchers explore the relationship between childhood trauma, gray matter, and social anhedonia

• Traumatic stress load and stressor reactivity score associated with accelerated gray matter maturation in youths indexed by normative models

• What is epigenetics?

• Scientists reveal how trauma changes the brain

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• Commentary: Prisoners like me need PTSD care

• Past incarceration a key SDOH causing chronic disease in older adults

• Faith-based programs can restore accountability, rehabilitation to prisons

• ?It?s not just a jail break?: Juvenile prison populations reach all-time lows

DHS careers

Find a job you'll love with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services

Posttraumatic stress disorder and moral injury

• PTSD Monthly Update - January 2023

• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 16(3), December 2022

• Understanding trauma triggers and how to deal with them

• Phase 3 trial evaluating MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD meets endpoints

• Neuroimaging can't yet locate PTSD

• 13 signs you?re experiencing a freeze stress response

• The limits of resilience: A need to rebuild mental health and well-being within the public health community

• Post traumatic stress is part of the law enforcement profession. Once you recognize the symptoms, you can start to deal with it.

• Relationships with narcissists can cause PTSD symptoms, a new research study finds

• Treatment for combat-related PTSD advances with method shown to be fast, effective

• What not to say to someone dealing with moral injury

• When PTSD sends veterans to jail

• Motivational Enhancement Therapy: An evidence-based approach to making positive changes

• Hope for couples coping with shared childhood trauma

• PTSD may shape how you use time, spend money, pursue goals

Resilience

• Podcast: The Power of Compassion

• Practicing mindfulness the Marine Corps way leads to mental resilience

• How breath work can lower blood pressure and help those with hypertension

• Finding joy after adverse childhood experiences

• Opinion: Self-care is not a luxury. It?s a matter of survival

• Some people thrive after trauma. Here's why

Schools

• How de-escalation strategies can reduce disruptive classroom behaviors

• Missteps with trauma-informed schools

• Using toys to comfort young students?

Substance use disorder

• Recidivism and mortality after in-jail buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder

• Pandemic fueled alcohol abuse, especially among women, but there are treatment options

• Temporal associations between depressive features and self-stigma in people with substance use disorders related to heroin, amphetamine, and alcohol use: a cross-lagged analysis

Trainings

• Webinar:?A Whole Person Approach to Youth and Young Adult Employment Services

• Webinar:?Understanding Native American History as a Foundation of Culturally Aware PTSD Treatment

• Free Virtual Conference: Raising Wisconsin's Children 2023 Conference - Parenting and Family Relationships

• Webinar: Advancing Trauma- and Resilience-Informed Health Care Systems: Early Lessons from Denver Health

• Moving from Collective Trauma and Compassion Fatigue Towards Resilience

Trauma-informed care

• Collective trauma toolkit: Respond effectively as an organization

• Podcast: The Power of Compassion

• Restorative justice as a trauma-informed approach

• Every body dance now: The power of dance/movement therapy for healing trauma

• The Intersection of the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Trauma-Informed Care (TIC)

• New study assists pediatricians with identifying trafficked children

• Gov. Evers, DCF announce grant to support domestic violence survivors in accessing child support resources

• Courage MKE purchases home to aid LGBTQ+ young adults

Violence

• Intimate partner violence associated with poor socioemotional development in children

• Traumatic brain injury from intimate partner violence

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