The current UK Government has proposed a register for children perceived at risk from abuse, resurrecting an idea from the previous Government it had suspended due to practicality and cost. The BBC had the story just after Christmas 2012 at the news site here.
Penn State scandal: How what happened in State College forced me to confront my own abuse tags: CA Protecting Our Children: Clues to Sexual Predation tags: CA Child abuse: We’re making the problem worse tags: CA Boy thought abuse was “normal” tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
This quote is about kids who might tell someone at school, but I think the idea has much wider applicability. “Children who have been abused or who are survivors of abuse would definitely benefit from having an adult in the school that they can go to and talk to. Someone that they can confide in,…
The US doesn’t have a set number of positions, but we are definitely seeing a similar shortage when it comes to mental health resources. In England, 9.9% of full-time consultant posts in psychiatry are vacant, almost double the 5.2% which were unfilled in 2013, according to the college’s biennial workforce research report. In all 568…
This is a powerful statement.
“Relationships are at the root of mental health in every way.”
For abuse survivors, we know this, even if we don’t always think about it. It’s the damage from abuse at the hands of another person that has such a huge impact on our mental health. It’s the reason when we talk about it occurring at the hands of a family member of loved one that other people struggle to believe us. That the relationship would be the source of abuse is unthinkable to people with good relationships.
But, we can also turn that statement on it’s head as well. It’s relationships that can undo that mental health damage that was done by abuse too.
