Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and suicidality are highly prevalent and increasing social problems among the college and university student population, thereby underscoring a need to better understand the relationship between ACEs and suicidal risk, ideation, and attempts during college. There is also a need to examine current suicide…

Adverse childhood experiences, or ACE, have been shown to cause long-term difficulties in an individual's physical health, impacting their chances of developing diabetes, high blood pressure, heart conditions, and various other medical conditions that can affect day-to-day life. Adversities experienced during childhood, such as physical,…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to collect in-depth information from school psychologists regarding their perceptions toward expressive therapies and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as interventions when working with students who are exposed to trauma. Individual Zoom interviews were conducted with seven practicing school psychologists who…

Approximately 11 million women and five million men in the United States report experiencing interpersonal violence (e.g., sexual violence, physical violence, psychological harassment, or stalking) before the age of 18 (CDC, n.d. -a). Victims may face a decline in grades, depression, anxiety, unwanted pregnancy, substance abuse, sexually…

Trauma is not a novel phenomenon within the world or society. Kilpatrick et al. (2013) postulated that most individuals will experience at least one traumatic event in their life. Possibly the more disturbing truth about trauma is it can occur throughout all stages of a person's life, sometimes even before the person is born (Narayan et al.,…