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UK Government Minister Presents Selections of future Street Grooming/CSA report to Parliament
The Deputy Children’s Minister has presented the sections of the report guaranteed to give her maximum exposure in the newspaper backing her campaign. The full report is due in September. We’ll comment further on this whenever the presentations are shown on the BBC’s Parliament channel to get the full context; for now the Daily Mail’s take on…

Sharing – Psychological and Physiological Power of Validation
Note what it says, words like listening and acceptance. Note also what it doesn’t say, like anything about fixing things or changing their feelings, etc.
I talk often on here about simply being there. Sitting with someone who is struggling. Validation is all about that, and as you can read further, validating someone is maybe one of the best things you can do to keep open lines of communication, help them feel valued, and not dismiss their emotions.

Sharing – Parents protesting ‘critical race theory’ identify a new target: Mental health programs
Maybe, most importantly, these parents seem to think they know better, that the mental health of their kids is something they can handle on their own. We know that isn’t true. We know the number of teens who have considered suicide is much higher than the number of parents who think their teen has. That doesn’t suggest that what we’ve been doing is working, it suggests that having mental health resources available at school is a net positive for everyone.
But that fact appears to be no match compared to stigma and conspiracy theories.

Link – Mental Illness: What’s Missing From Anti-Stigma Campaigns
I think Emilie may be on to something with this. With the over representation of some mental disorder and the under representation of other mental disorders, there seems to be ‘’socially acceptable’’ mental health issues (even though there is still a long way to go) and less ‘’socially acceptable’’ mental health issues. Sometimes the less…
Link – New research shedding light on sex abuse committed by mothers against their sons
“The mother’s archetypal role is as a nurturer and protector, but challenging new Australian research is shedding light on the little-known crime of mother-son sexual abuse.” This is a really in-depth article about research into an area of sexual abuse that rarely gets mentioned, even among those of us who talk about child abuse online….

Link – Patient therapy helps young victims of child abuse
I like the sound of this program, because when abuse is discovered, too much of our attention is on the justice system, which is understandable, but the most important thing we could be doing is getting kids help. The sessions that take place in this room aim to help children make the journey from a…