Genetic risk for PTSD appears to interact differently with different traumatic experiences, with some of the strongest patterns linked to childhood trauma.

“My green, leather-bound Bible lived on my nightstand and traveled with me to church each week and to youth group meetings and retreats,” she writes in her latest book, “Damned If She Does: Why Women ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that your genes may make you more vulnerable to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from certain types of trauma-particularly childhood neglect-than from others.

A study reveals that your genes may make you more vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from certain types of ...

From physical attacks to verbal harassment to cyberbullying, learn how to identify the six most common types of bullying and ...

Harmful narratives about domestic abuse persist in our society. They can include questioning “why doesn’t the victim just leave?”. They might mean believing in a hierarchy of abuse, where physical ...

Just north of Bucharest is a neat development of red-gabled houses known as American Village. It is an unlikely place to be the center of an international criminal intrigue, but on its western border ...

One of the most consequential rulings on clergy sexual abuse in the entire history of American jurisprudence has received virtually no media attention. Its defendant? The United Methodist Church. In a ...

Shalev's prior research on the effects of child abuse focused on biological aging—how old a person's body appears relative to the amount of time they have been alive. Because this study examined the ...

Like it did 25 years ago, April 30 came and went this year without notice. When April 30 went unnoticed in 2001, I was a newly ordained priest, sitting in a classroom in Rome, about to finish my ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A bill aimed at teaching Iowa students how to recognize abuse and stay safe has failed to pass once again, leaving advocates concerned that thousands of children are missing ...

A recent hearing exposes how international child abduction laws are being applied in ways that undermine the rights of survivors of domestic violence and place them and their children at risk. At the ...