After the main offenders in one of Scotland’s highest profile cases were jailed for 13 and 16 years respectively, the parent(s) of one victim told their story to BBC News. Her view on how to handle offenders is thought-provoking in the extreme. For the record I have to disagree with it, but you’ll have to make your own mind up.
Read it here and as always with the BBC, the related articles are in a box to the top right of this interview.
– CBG
Just for the balance of showing it’s not just America that has fundamentalist pressure groups, The Guardian carried an article in its Saturday 23rd June paper regarding a UK pressure group that think Gay Marriage will lead to incest, a great way to trivialise child abuse in general even further than wasting two years on a…
Admittedly, this series looking in depth at the growing problem in New Zealand is not for everyone. But, if you want to see an in depth look at how one country is dealing, or failing, when it comes to mental health, this might be of interest to you: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/tags/Break-the-silence/1504326/ For more information about the series,…
What we see here is what we see for a lot of mental health solutions, it works for some, and doesn’t work for others. Mental health is complicated. As the article points out, if the school environment is hurting student mental health or they are living in an environment at home that does the same, mindfulness isn’t going to change that and isn’t likely to have much of an overall impact even if they engage.
It’s complicated. The solutions are going to be complicated as well. I’d like some simple mindfulness training to be “the answer” for everyone too, but it just isn’t.
On the other hand, if it helps you, keep doing it.
It’s not about child abuse but we have posted stories about the effects of blogging and social media communication in the past, and The Mail on Sunday printed another one again today regarding police in the UK, who have three arrests a day stemming from a block of 4000 complaints about online harrassment, trolling or…
Anne Wheaton, yes Wil’s wife, has written an insightful piece about dealing with a loved one’s depression. What I like about it is the honesty she shows in talking about what chemical depression can look like to a spouse. It doesn’t often look like depression, it looks like anger and frustration, etc. Depression symptoms are…
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