Feb 09 Edition of the Carnival Against Child Abuse
Nancy Richards in hosting this month’s edition and has it posted over on her Heal and Forgive blog.
As always, there’s a lot of good stuff in there, I look forward to reading more!
One of my frequent notes about auto/biographies featuring child abuse is that they fail to go into relevant detail about the recovery process. Josh Cannon’s Silent Scream, which I read in hardback, sets this right by bookending the whole story with being shipped off to recovery, some in the UK, but at the beginning of…
How Digital Technology Can Enhance Mental Health Oakland may send mental health experts, not police, for some 911 calls Amid concerns about grad student mental health, one university takes a novel approach The Enduring Pain of Childhood Verbal Abuse Using Writing to Help Us Process Our Grief I Made the Greatest Decision of My Life…
The choice to share your story or not, and who to share it with, is an intensely personal one. This article points out some of the benefits of doing it, but doesn’t really address the reasons why a survivor might not share. What do you think? What made you decide to share, or not share?…
The first Peer SupportGroup session took place in early October 2015, with positive reviews from both users and moderators. The service functions similar to a group chat, where male survivors of childhood sexual abuse can support other men in their journey of trauma recovery. Men from all over the country can chat back and forth…
Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN): When your parents fail to respond enough to your emotions and emotional needs. What happens to a child whose parents too seldom say, “What’s wrong?” and then listen with care to her answer. How does it affect a child to have parents who are blind to what he is feeling? Parents…