6.18.2014

Silence Through Medication

• Difficult, Impulsive, Oppositional Behavior 
A child's "behavior is most often a communication about family, social, and economic stressors that are making a child's family less competent at caring for him....medication is just shutting off the child's efforts to tell me something, in effect silencing his voice."

5.25.2014

Quitodian *t*rauma

• Effects of Everyday (lowercase) trauma
Pediatrician Cynthia Gold discusses the developmental neuroscience behind this phenomenon.

4.17.2014

Rasing Good Children

• Molding Morals in Children
If you want children to care about others, teach them to feel guilt rather than shame when they misbehave.

4.14.2014

Suicide Prevention

Live Through This is a collection of portraits and stories of suicide attempt survivors, as told by those survivors.

3.26.2014

Conversing With Infants and Toddlers

• Silence is Not Golden
Brain development is buoyed by continuous interaction with parents and caregivers from birth.

3.24.2014

Self-Calming

• Rehabilitating After Early Trauma
Without appropriate adult support, childhood trauma can interfere with healthy brain development, inhibiting children’s ability to make good decisions, use memory or use sequential thought processes to work through problems.