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22nd Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse
Rising Rainbow is hosting this month’s edition of the Blog Carnival over at My Clouds, My Storms and My Personality Disorder. There’s been quite the turnout for this edition and there’s lots of good stuff to read through, much covering this month’s theme, “telling the secret”.
This Week’s Links (weekly)
Depression in men: half as likely to be diagnosed but three times more likely to result in suicide. We need to talk about male mental health. tags: CA Depression A childhood lost to abuse tags: CA ChildAbuse Male Survivor Book Project – 2014 – This Tangled Web tags: CA ChildAbuse People who suffer mental illness can…

Link – UK Mental Health Study
This is a really interesting, but quite lengthy, read. Brandwatch put together a large survey of UK social media conversations. We analyzed over 12 million conversations to understand how mental health is discussed online. A couple of interesting takeaways I got, though I’m sure you may come away with different ones: Clearly events like Mental Heath…
Reading – Abused Children Show “Encouraging” Ability to Regulate Emotions
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Child Protection E-Learning Courses
I’ve been exchanging emails this week with Victoria Simpson about a British website that offers e-learning courses about how to protect children. Here’s some of what she had to say about them: I am trying to raise awareness of these courses for my client and it is also a subject that is close to my…