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Clinically tested adverse childhood experience questionnaires applied to cinematic superheroes and villains Maybe you've heard the story of Baby Kal-El, whose father sent him to Earth in a rocket ship to escape the destruction of his home planet, Krypton.

Overcrowded prisons are at breaking point. Now, researchers are sounding the alarm over a largely overlooked issue: moral injury. Overcrowded prisons in England and Wales are at breaking point, with self-harm at record levels. Now, researchers are sounding the alarm over a largely overlooked issue: moral injury, a psychological wound caused by witnessing or experiencing events that deeply conflict with a person's values.

Better support is needed for prisoners and prison staff to protect them from moral injuries - psychological wounds caused by witnessing or experiencing events that deeply conflict with a person's values - finds a new study co-led by UCL researchers. Experts from UCL, the University of Bath, King's College London, Combat Stress, and NHS partners have published a report in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology , urging the UK government to provide targeted mental health support for prison staff and prisoners.

There has been a significant increase in orphanhood in the last two decades in the U.S., according to a new study.

Advanced technologies, education, and channeling local and indigenous knowledge could help African nations protect their unique nature.

How and when did dinosaurs first emerge and spread across the planet more than 200 million years ago? That question has for decades been a source of debate among paleontologists faced with fragmented fossil records. The mainstream view has held that the reptiles emerged on the southern portion of the ancient supercontinent Pangea called Gondwana millions of years before spreading to the northern half named Laurasia.

Francisco Perales , The University of Queensland ; Janeen Baxter , The University of Queensland , and Ruth Steinbring , The University of Queensland Australian women are better educated than men but still face poorer job prospects and lower incomes.

DFG funding for studies in legal and migration research, and adapting therapies for tumours The German Research Foundation (DFG) has funded the establishment of two new Research Training Groups (RTGs) at the University of Göttingen.

Having children makes people happy, especially women - this is a common societal belief. But how do mental health, well-being and feelings of loneliness change in parents compared to women and men without children over the life course?

Study: Protecting the health of children with universal child cash benefits (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02366-3) Looking at programs from more than 140 countries, a University of Michigan-led

A single conversation with a close family member may not change a young woman's views on policies protecting their rights, but it can strongly influence young men's attitudes.

New research from political philosopher Associate Professor Luara Ferracioli suggests stepparents often play a valuable role in children's lives and should receive adequate social and legal status.

Narratives behind numbers point to need for better coordination, support by employers, communities, public health leaders in future crises, especially mental health Study: Psychosocial and pandemic-related circumstances of suicide deaths in 2020: Evidence from the National Violent Death Reporting System In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, University of Michigan researchers dug deeper into the numbers-only data of COVID-19-era suicides and evaluated the narratives contained in reports from coroners, medical examiners, police and vital statistics.

Suicidal behaviour is increasingly common in closed juvenile care. As a result, social workers are more likely to control young people, for example by placing them in solitary confinement.

Under a grant from the Humboldt Foundation, Professor Robert Braun of the University of California Berkeley is conducting research on scare stories for children How were anti-Semitism, fear and children's scare stories connected in late 19th and early 20th-century Europe?

People who lost a parent to suicide face a higher risk of suicide or self-harm themselves when they reach the age their parent lived to, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Unwanted sexual behaviour is common in workplaces, but LGBTQ employees' harassment is often overlooked, co-writes Dr Cristyn Davies from the Faculty of Medicine and Health.

Life expectancy lower in the U.S. than in the United Kingdom On average, life expectancy is 78.6 years in U.S. versus 81.3 years in England and Wales, with h