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Tomorrow evening, ESPN’s excellent E:60 program will do a piece on Invisible Victims: According to experts, children with disabilities are three times more likely than children without them to be victims of sexual abuse. And when the disability is mental rather than physical – meaning the disability is not immediately visible – the cases are…
Link – Survey – Parental Responses Following Child Experiences of Trauma
The aim of this study We are conducting a research study looking at how children cope shortly after being involved in any kind of frightening experience. We hope that 300 parents whose child has experienced a frightening event will take part. Parents are usually the main source of support for children following frightening experiences and…
Link – Keep childhood trauma from enduring impact in adulthood
I believe this is an important message that sometimes gets lost in the stories about childhood trauma and ACE scores, that it can be overcome. “The answer lies in another new field called resiliency science. The discoveries in this research are just as remarkable as the ACEs revelation. Adversity can be turned into resiliency when…
Link – How podcast ‘The League of Awkward Unicorns’ is changing the dialogue on mental illness
“Writer Alice Bradley and media technologist and speaker Deanna Zandt launched the League of Awkward Unicorns in November. Bradley and Zandt have been close friends for several years, and both have been diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorders (social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, respectively). They see the League of Awkward Unicorns as a way to…
Link – It’s Time We Start to Talk About Depression Like the Common Illness That It Is
“It was amazing to me to realize just how many people had gone through similar things as me. But no one knows these things until you start the conversation. So let’s start the freaking conversation. I am medicated to treat my depression. I love when people tell me they can’t believe I’m medicated. You seem…
