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Behavioral Health

Drexel University researcher Felice Le-Scherban looked at the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACES), which are being found in the children of those who suffered traumatic events during childhood.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Parents’ scars from childhood trauma can affect their kids’ health, researchers find

The research showed that with each additional ACE that a parent experienced, a child had 17 percent higher odds of having been diagnosed with asthma.

8 years ago

Listen 2:57
Muzz Skillings alongside Joe Krause, Audible board member, presenting a plaque for Autism Awareness. (Photo Courtesy/Audible for Autism)
Philly Parenting
Community

Autism and football in Philly: Therapeutic benefits on and off the field

For children who are diagnosed on the autism spectrum, a number of recreational activities are well-known for having therapeutic benefits ...

8 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

A novelist and psychiatrist reflect on school shootings

Guests: Tom McAllister, Steven Berkowitz The aftermath of a school shooting is the subject of Philadelphia author ...

Air Date: June 4, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:14
Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (far right) attended a hearing on opioid prescriptions in Bensalem Tuesday.(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Toomey calls for Medicare, Medicaid to expand monitoring of opioid prescriptions

One out of three people enrolled in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit plan received an opioid in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

8 years ago

The Resilience Builder Program teaches young students techniques for handling tough emotions, like visualizing a remote control for thoughts so they can switch from negative to happier feelings. (Nathalie Dieterle/for NPR)
NPR
Education

For troubled kids, some schools take time out for group therapy

In Australia, Canada and the U.K., social and emotional learning in schools is already being implemented on a large scale. Here in the U.S. it has spread, but not as quickly.

8 years ago

Domestic Violence survivor Renee Norris Jones at her home in Nicetown. Norris Jones said that despite enduring years of abuse, nothing gave her more fear than when she was confronted with a gun. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

After years of domestic violence, a gun changed everything

Renee Norris Jones was in an abusive relationship for seven years.

8 years ago

Listen 7:48
Image courtesy of Angela Duckworth
Voices in the Family
Health

Cultivating Character with Angela Duckworth

Curiosity, self control, grit and zest— they’re all character strengths. But what is character? And how do we cultivate it? Wh ...

Air Date: May 18, 2018

Listen 52:23
A visitor to the Kensington Avenue heroin encampment checks on a friend. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

With Conrail cleanup in rear view, Philly clearing new Kensington heroin camps

Some fear the approach could scatter homeless drug users around the neighborhood.

8 years ago

Listen 5:43
Delaware Gov. John Carney and Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall Long announce a three-year action plan to combat addiction and address mental health issues. (WHYY/Paul Parmalee)
Health

Delaware readies coordinated effort to fight addiction, improve mental health care

Gov. Carney: “We know there’s a huge cost. There’s no price you can put on the loss of a loved one. And that motivation needs to be with us as we implement this action plan.”

8 years ago

Radio Times
Health

Intimate partner violence

Guests: Susan Higginbothem, Tony Lapp, Azucena Ugarte The disturbing abuse allegations by four women against New ...

Air Date: May 14, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Voices in the Family

Can we teach character strengths to kids?

Research shows that character strengths are as important as I-Q and socioeconomic status to achievement and well-being in life. The ...

Air Date: April 23, 2018

Listen 03:49
Carol McDowell gets emotional as she and Kevin McDowell sit in front of photos of their daughter Kelly Ann McDowell during a press conference. McDowell killed herself with the service revolver of her boyfriend, Ventnor Police Sgt. Frank O'Neill.
Courts & Law

Lawsuit: South Jersey cop ‘grossly negligent’ for failing to lock up gun used in girlfriend’s suicide

Ventnor City Police Sgt. Frank O’Neill would later tell investigators he was in “rush mode” when he prepared to leave for a trip to ...

8 years ago

Students at Tilden Middle School using the new “calming room.” (Dana Bate for WHYY)
Education

Philly school’s new ‘calming room’ offers yoga mats, drawing, and a ‘brain break’

A Philadelphia middle school has launched a "calming room" to help students unwind.

8 years ago

Meghan Talarowski of Studio Ludo designed the climbing wall at the Cecil B. Moore library with the idea that children need
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

A Philadelphia library gets ‘risky’ with a new play space

It all started with an idea the library had to create play spaces where they could get out some of that pent-up energy.

8 years ago

Listen 4:35
Seventeen-year-old Sophia Angelica Delgado Feliciano says for a long time she used emotional distance as a survival tool. Today she's thriving. (Courtesy of Sophia Delgado)
The Pulse
Health

Letting go of anger in North Philly

Seventeen-year-old Sophia Angelica Delgado Feliciano says for a long time she used emotional distance as a survival tool.

8 years ago

Listen 5:20
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