The following is an interview with Karen Panier, the author of Love Spots. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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This blog features the resource that is the PsychArmor Institute, which provides training and information for civilians on military cultural competency.
Planning a wedding, getting married, becoming a parent, going through a divorce… all life events that can affect finances and emotions. Dr. Barbara O’Neill facilitated the second webinar of the 3-part Family Finances Series hosted by the MFLN’s Personal Finance and Family Development Concentration Areas on August 28, 2018. During this webinar,…
With school in full swing, and everyone getting back into their normal routines again, what better time to look at the current research of the benefits of eating breakfast to remember why it is so important!
by Crystal Williams, Ed.M. Home visits are a primary form of service delivery in early intervention (EI). During home visits a professional or team of professionals come into the home to provide services, such as speech, physical, occupational, or developmental therapy. In the past, home visits were largely provider-centered. It...
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By: David Lee Sexton, Jr., MS & Bari Sobelson Slack, Holl, McDaniel, Yoo, and Bolger (2004) provide extensive evidence documenting the relationship between poverty and child maltreatment, indicating the existence of a negative relationship between income and multiple forms of child abuse and neglect. This means that as the household…
Mexico-U.S. border at Tijuana. © Tomas Castelazo, www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 In our early childhood mental health program at the University of Minnesota, one of the first things I teach new trainees is to screen for trauma. We ask about abuse and neglect, natural disasters, and...
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When my children were growing up have the family together for mealtimes was important not always possible. My husband worked odd hours frequently when he was not there until the kids were in bed. So I confess to succumbing to faster, more convenience foods.
In the United States, children continue to face issues of inequity at the intersections of dis/ability and race. For instance, children and youth of Color continue to be over-identified in the categories of emotional behavioral disorder, intellectual dis/ability, and learning dis/ability (Artiles, Kozleski, Trent, Osher, & Ortiz, 2010; Skiba et al., 2008; Zhang, Katsiyannis, Ju, & Roberts, 2014). African American children and youth are more likely than peers with the same dis/ability label to be placed in more restrictive settings (Banks, 2017; Ford & Russo, 2016), leading to lower graduation rates (Reid & Knight, 2006).
When we started planning the 2018 OneOp Virtual Conference on cultural competency, a couple of issues came to mind. Well, actually, a lot of issues came to mind, but let’s focus on just two.
