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Trauma-Affected Refugees and Their Non-Exposed Children: A Review of Risk and Protective Factors for Trauma Transmission
Keywords refugees; parental PTSD; intergenerational trauma; child mental health; parenting; stress disorders; post-traumatic stress disorder; psychopathology; problem behavior; torture(2022)
The Role of Incarceration as a Risk Factor for Cognitive Impairment
Keywords Cognitive impairment; Cognitive reserve; Formerly incarcerated; Health disparities; Reentry(2022)
Brief of Center for Law, Brain & Behavior and Neuroscientists as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant Jwainus Perry
Keywords nervous system; brain plasticity; harmful environments; mental injury; physical injury; solitary confinement; hippocampal shrinkage; social deprivation; chronic stress; brain changes(2022)
People v. Banner
Keywords psychological trauma; mental illness; sentencing; trauma(2022)
Improved Emotion Regulation Following a Trauma-Informed Cbt-Based Intervention Associates With Reduced Risk for Recidivism in Justice-Involved Emerging Adults
Keywords CBT; trauma-informed; intervention; risk; juvenile legal system; juvenile youth; trauma exposure; violence exposure(2022)
PTSD and Trauma as Mitigating Factors in Sentencing in Capital Cases
Keywords death penalty; mitigation; posttraumatic stress disorder; stress; trauma; sentencing; forensic psychiatry(2022)
Juvenile Confinement Exacerbates Adversity Burden: A Neurobiological Impetus for Decarceration
Keywords neurodevelopment; adversity; trauma; stress; juvenile justice; adolescence; incarceration(2022)
Psychosocial Family-Level Mediators in the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Keywords intergenerational trauma; family psychosocial factors; trauma transmission; mediators and moderators; parental trauma; child mental health; causal pathways; systematic review protocol(2022)
A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Family Interventions for Trauma-Affected Refugees
Keywords family; mental health; refugees; traumatic stress; culture; displacement; intervention(2022)
What Science Tells us About False and Repressed Memories
Keywords Repression; repressed memory; false memory; memory; trauma(2022)
State v. Elzey
Keywords battered spouse syndrome; PTSD evidence; jury instructions; history of abuse; domestic violence; trauma(2021)
Brief of Refugee Advocacy Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents
Keywords asylum; immigration judge; credibility; trauma; persecution; testimony; non-credible(2021)
Brief of the Education Civil Rights Alliance, National Center for Youth Law, Juvenile Law Center, National Disability Rights Network, Education Law Center, et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellants
Keywords compensatory education; Havasupai Tribe; Indian Education Act; Administrative Procedure Act; educational services(2021)
Brief of Advocates for Child Victims of Domestic Violence as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Keywords death row; mitigating evidence; adverse childhood experiences; developmental psychology; habeas hearing; death penalty(2021)
A Historic Opportunity to Update Asylum Law's Outdated Assumptions About Trauma and Memory
Keywords trauma; memory; credibility; immigration; mental health; asylum law(2021)