The Conversation AU (Australia) - Young
offenders must be screened for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
before sentencing
Australia’s
prison population is growing at unprecedented rates. In some states
Indigenous prisoners far outnumber their non-Indigenous counterparts.
Emporia Gazette -
No safe amount
Following three to
four years of dealing with infertility issues, Gail Ellis and her
husband decided to explore adoption options. Following this decision,
the couple began a process of looking at agencies, working with
agencies, going through training and then a waiting period.
Medical Daily (UK)
- Drinking While Pregnant? UK Experts Demand Clearer Guidelines
For Women Who Question Their Alcohol Consumption
"Alcohol is
not essential to the health or well-being of a pregnant woman and is
known to be harmful to her baby," wrote retired pediatrician Dr.
Mary Mather, and Kate Wiles, an obstetrics research fellow at Guys
and St. Thomas National Health Service Trust hospital in England.
"The only ethical advice that can be given is complete
abstinence from alcohol in pregnancy."
Daily Mail (USA) -
Deformed by their mother's alcoholism: The Indian territory where
hundreds of children are suffering fetal alcohol syndrome because
their pregnant moms won't stop drinking
In a Nebraska
town, with a population of just 14 people, four stores sold more than
four million beer cans in a space of a year.
The Boston Globe
(USA) - Study finds state liquor laws saving more women than men
Stricter alcohol
laws save lives — but for women more than men. That’s the
conclusion of a study published Thursday in the journal Preventing
Chronic Disease.
Loudoun Times -
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Living with the most harmful, yet
preventable prenatal disease
On June 23, 2000,
Lisa Glasgow and her husband adopted 12-month-old Anzhella and her
older brother Robert from Russia. When Glasgow met her daughter for
the first time, she knew she wasn’t healthy, but she wasn’t going
to walk away from the adoption. She didn’t know it at the time, but
Anzhella was a victim of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
VIDEOS and
MATERIALS
POPFASD - Dan
Dubovsky - The Approach
Dan Dubovsky
speaks about an approach that we all need to use in our work with
individuals with FASD.
POPFASD - Dan
Dubovsky - Mental Health Disorders and FASD
Dan Dubovsky
speaks about how typical treatments for mental health disorders are
not appropriate if FASD is a co-occurring diagnosis.
POPFASD - Dan
Dubovsky - Comparing ODD, ADHD, and FASD
Dan Dubovsky
compares the differences between ODD, ADHD, and FASD
Brain Matters -
Alcohol and the Fetal Brain with Dr. Rajesh Miranda
On this episode of
Brain Matters, Matt and Dr. Rajesh Miranda (Professor, Department of
Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Texas A&M University)
talk about fetal alcohol syndrome. Rajesh is passionate about finding
ways to help those who fall on the spectrum of this syndrome by
uncovering the ways alcohol interacts with the development of the
fetal brain.
University of
Manitoba Faculty of Health Sciences - Preventing FASD
A new report by
the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy at the University of Manitoba
finds the InSight Mentoring Program is helping women with alcohol
addictions make healthier choices while pregnant and once they’ve
given birth.
YourAlberta -
Parental Expectations with an Adult Child Impacted by FASD
Parental
Expectations with an Adult Child Impacted by FASD Mary Berube, an
adoptive mother of two young men with FASD, provides insight into
FASD beyond age 18 and how it affects the family and individual.
RESEARCH
Behavioural Brain
Research - Impairment of social behaviour persists two years after
embryonic alcohol exposure in zebrafish: a model of fetal alcohol
spectrum disorders
We found the
effects of embryonic alcohol exposure on social behaviour not to
diminish with age, a result that demonstrates the deleterious and
potentially life-long consequences of exposure to even small amount
of alcohol during embryonic development in vertebrates.
Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research - A metacognitive strategy for
reducing disruptive behavior in children with fetal alcohol spectrum
disorders: GoFAR pilot
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorders (FASD) are often characterized by disruptive
behavior problems and there are few effective interventions
available. GoFAR is a novel, 3-part intervention designed to improve
self-regulation and adaptive living skills of children with FASD by
improving metacognitive control of emotions and arousal.
American Society
for Nutrition - Choline supplementation in children with fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders: a randomized, double-blind,
placebo-controlled trial
There are no
specific biological treatments for FASDs, but rodent models have
shown that prenatal or postnatal choline supplementation reduces
cognitive and behavioral deficits.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Oberpfalznetz
(Germany) - Kleines Gläschen mit großer Wirkung
Die zum Teil
schwerwiegenden Folgen von Alkoholkonsum während der Schwangerschaft
sind nicht jedem bekannt. Fast jeder Fünfte denkt heute immer noch,
dass ein Gläschen Bier oder Sekt in den neun Monaten vertretbar ist.
Życie Jarocina
(Poland) - Warsztaty dla rodziców zastępczych
Pierwsze warsztaty
szkoleniowe wzmacniające i zwiększające wiedzę oraz kompetencje
opiekuńczo-wychowawcze odbędą się środę 28 października w
godz. 9.00-14.00. Ich tematem będzie „Dziecko z FAS/FASD -
charakterystyka, możliwości pomocy”. Zajęcia poprowadzi Iwona
Palicka. Kolejne warsztaty zaplanowano na wtorek, 3 listopada.
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