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Link – If your organisation is looking for offenders, you’re leaving children at risk
This is an interesting opinion piece out of Australia, one that I think we should think about more. The Commissioners found, “There is no typical profile of an adult perpetrator”. They found that the strategies used to sexually abuse children would differ greatly depending on the context in which the abuse occurred. As a result,…
Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 22 2023
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How Social Media Can Add to Your Well-Being (Not Detract From It)
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Veterans Get Expanded Suicide Crisis Care Coverage Starting Tuesday
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New Study Shows Why Depression in Black Women Is Often Overlooked by Their Doctors – “A December 2022 paper published in Nursing Research revealed that Black women are less likely to report classic symptoms of depression, such as sadness or hopelessness. Instead, they note trouble sleeping, self-criticism, irritability, and an inability to experience pleasure.”
Sharing – What Do I Do When Mental Health Coping Strategies Don’t Work?
Sometimes our coping strategies need to adjust to these new realities. That doesn’t mean you are failing, it means you need to adapt. It’s no different than what I often encounter at work, where the technology we work with and assist clients with changes and evolves, and we need to change and evolve with it. What we did yesterday isn’t going to work in today’s reality.
The same is true for our mental health toolkit. We need to keep evolving with it to adapt to changes.
No, kids don’t get over it without help
The truth is that abuse victims can be resilient, but generally not on their own. We also know that it doesn’t end there.
