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Phil Harris
Jun 10, 20191 min read
Dual Diagnosis: Free Certified eLearning
Progress are a consortium of consultant nurses who established a professional forum in supporting practitioners and services users...
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Phil Harris
Apr 8, 20192 min read
Poverty Written into Your Genes?
A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at...
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Phil Harris
Dec 2, 20181 min read
The Magic Cure for Alcoholism: Empathy
A great privilege of running this blog is to share some of the work of practitioners who have inspired me but whose work is not often as...
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Phil Harris
Nov 29, 20182 min read
Parietal Brain Protects Kids from Neighborhood Violence Stresses
Neighborhood violence has been associated with adverse health effects on youth, including sleep loss, asthma and metabolic syndrome. Yet...
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Phil Harris
Nov 5, 20183 min read
Adversity: Growing Up Fast
In previous blog entries I shared research that showed that children and young people who were exposed to childhood trauma demonstrated...
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Phil Harris
Sep 10, 20181 min read
Averse Childhood Experiences and the Aging Process
Th Conversation has published a fascinating review of the research in how early averse childhood experiences can accelerate the aging...
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Phil Harris
Aug 17, 20184 min read
Adolescent Mental Health & Spirituality
Shifts in values is vital for recovery in both mental health and addictions, especially for those who experience the most complex...
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Phil Harris
Jul 4, 20181 min read
Psychologically Informed Environments: Pilot with Bristol City Council
I am pleased to be involved in the pilot with Bristol City Council's Community Housing team's PIE pilot. I will be working with the...
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Phil Harris
Nov 28, 20171 min read
New Psychological Therapist Post at Second Step
I am very excited to announce that I will be covering the Psychological Therapist for Reflective Practice for two days a week with Second...
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Phil Harris
Oct 9, 20172 min read
Growing Up On Easy Street
In lectures I often examine research that suggests that social economic positions influences child development dramatically. A new study...
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Phil Harris
Aug 25, 20172 min read
Hard Edges: Mapping Severe and Multiple Disadvantage Report.
I am very interested in the life time studies of the impact of negative childhood experiences and how they shape the adult life. I have...
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Phil Harris
Jul 11, 20171 min read
What is Right with Kids Growing Up Under Stress?
Studies of children growing in stressful environments always views them from a deficit lens. However, many of the behaviors that are...
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Phil Harris
May 17, 20171 min read
Small Difference, Big Impact
A recent study found that the more days a child missed of pre-school created greater disparities in their educational attainment across...
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Phil Harris
Dec 13, 20162 min read
Child and Adolescent Trajectories: More Evidence Emerges
A great deal of my recent work in addiction and mental health has been focused on understanding and addressing divergent patterns of drug...
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