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Adverse Childhood Experiences: Preventing Early Trauma to Improve Adult Health
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Fact sheet on preventing early trauma to improve adult health -
Making the Case for Trauma-Informed Care: Tips for Talking with Leadership
This tool is aimed at supporting champions when approaching leadership about the value of adopting a trauma-informed approach in health care settings. It offers key considerations for talking with leadership, and sample language that champions can use to tailor their pitch. -
The Messy Truth About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Why do most people believe the myth that OCD is just about a hyper-organized desk or color-coordinated closet? -
My OCD Confession
"OCD owns the word "disorder" because it debilitates. It crashes through you like a bulldozer and asks you to pick up the pieces." -
Experiencing Both Perspectives of EMDR: Provider and Patient
Dr. Brister is a psychiatrist who has used the treatment, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), as a way to help his patients through trauma. But he is also an individual who has used EMDR as a way to process his own trauma. -
The Treatment of Choice for Trauma
For someone seeking care for trauma, experiential, body-focused methods can be more helpful than traditional talk therapies. -
NAMI Applauds the Introduction of the Commander John Scott Hannon VA Mental Health Improvement Act of 2019
Landmark legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate today to help reduce veteran suicides and improve mental health outcomes. The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) will increase access to mental health care, expand diagnostic research and authorize new programs to combat veteran suicides. -
Combatting the Loneliness of Mental Illness
When you have mental illness, it can be hard to find others who understand. And the loneliness can make symptoms even worse, creating a cycle of isolation. Here are a few ways to stay connected even during challenging phases of mental illness. -
Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Leveraging the Best Available Evidence
A resource to help states and communities leverage the best available evidence to prevent ACEs from happening in the first place as well as lessen harms when ACEs do occur. It features six strategies drawn from the CDC Technical Packages to Prevent Violence. -
Implementing Trauma-Informed Care: A Guidebook
This guidebook focuses on supporting nursing homes and other long term care facilities for older adults on how to implement trauma-informed practices and policies.