Guardian Elizabeth Smart Retrospective
Recently UK newspaper The Guardian covered the aftermath of the Elizabeth Smart case. That article is here.
“According to a study from Ohio State University, something as subtle as phrasing can have an effect on someone’s tolerance. Using a questionnaire designed to measure attitudes toward people with mental illness, participants were given one of two versions of the survey: In one version, all references were to “the mentally ill,” and in the…
Research has now shown that reading self-help books can help people dealing with depression, and can even help those same people avoid future bouts,of suffering. I’m somewhat surprised by this. I think it’s easy to ignore the whole self-help book industry because there are definitely some bad examples out there, but maybe, just maybe there…
July Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse tags: CA Abused as a child, U.S. women’s boxer Queen Underwood refuses to be counted out at Olympics tags: CA Lowcountry Survivors, adult child abuse recovery resource tags: CA Why We Protect Girls Better Than Boys tags: CA The Penn State NCAA Penalties: What About The Boys? tags: CA…
I don’t know anyone that isn’t more irritable now than they were a year ago, but do we know why? And what do we do about it? This seems like a fairly accurate picture of our current situation: “In fact, neuroscience tells us is that irritability and anger aren’t in our conscious control. Think of…
There’s a lot in the article below to consider, but I think this paragraph is a good starting point: Part of that answer has to do with the clubby collusion that comes naturally to the rich and powerful, of course. But part also has to do with the mind-set of Epstein’s generation around sex. The…
The BBC’s Newsnight ran a report into children abused by other children last night and you can read a general summary here. Now there seems to be a postcode lottery for funding into treatment of both offending children as well as their victims, though when the offending takes place within the family it will introduce…