What is Conduct Disorder?
I stand in the bathroom stall of the courthouse, texting a friend. “I can’t do this,” I write and lean
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Tag: Mental Health
Journey to the Son: One mother’s heart wrenching journey
Journey to the Son is an emotionally riveting memoir about a woman’s eight-year battle with the system for the child of her heart, who suffers from prolonged trauma caused by his birth mother, a victim herself of perpetual physical, emotional, and mental abuse.
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A Dangerous Son
This HBO documentary explores the struggle of three moms who are trying to find mental health services for their aggressive
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California Looks To Lead Nation In Unraveling Childhood Trauma
Imagine identifying a toxin so potent it could rewire a child’s brain and erode his immune system. A substance that, in high doses, tripled the risk of heart disease and lung cancer and reduced life expectancy by 20 years. And then realizing that tens of millions of American children had been exposed.
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What we might learn from another tragic story of mental health help given too late, too little
Caleb, 11, was thin with blond hair, glasses, and a big smile where crooked teeth jockeyed for space. He and
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The making of a murderer?
Our Failed Solutions for Seriously Ill Foster Youths (published by The Chronicle of Social Change) Justin Taylor Bean, removed from
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