This Week’s Links (weekly)
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What Parents Need to Know About Web Filtering and Parental Controls
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Sexual Abuse Survivors Need Disclosure, Exposure, and To Get Closure
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Convicted Sex Offender Advice to Keep Children Safe
tags: CA
4 Ways To Reach Out When Depressed | World of Psychology
tags: CA
What Parents Need to Know About Web Filtering and Parental Controls
tags: CA
Sexual Abuse Survivors Need Disclosure, Exposure, and To Get Closure
tags: CA
tags: CA
Love Is All You Need: Social Support in PTSD Treatment
tags: CA
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are 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…
If you worked for someone who paid your salary and then came back a year or two later and said you had to give it back, you wouldn’t work for them any longer. That’s what is happening with these insurance clawbacks. Given everything we know about how difficult insurance companies make it for therapists just to get paid, is it any wonder it’s so difficult to find one in network with your insurance?
A couple of things I thought of while reading the interview linked below. Julia and her sister grew up in a similar environment, but have had different paths to recovery and healing. It was her sister who spent some time in inpatient care and is sharing her story, not Julia herself. That is normal. There…
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and I thought it would be worthwhile to review the scope of the problem we are trying to prevent. Child physical abuse exists in all corners of the country and affects children of all ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic groups. Check the statistics. Child abuse happens everywhere, it’s not…
“But when you make an appointment to see a therapist, do you know what’s going to happen? Many people aren’t quite certain. Will you just talk? Will you have to discuss your childhood? Will you be “hypnotized?” And what’s the “point” of seeing a therapist, anyway? Why not just talk to a friend? There is…
We’ve spent so much time looking at lists like this one, looking for the bad people, and that is absolutely part of abuse prevention. Still, we’ve missed the boat on what might be the most significant tool in our prevention toolkit, taking the target off kids by connecting with them as parents and with other trusted adults—helping them be less vulnerable.
Kids who don’t have secrets make terrible targets for abusers. Kids with support and secure relationships aren’t easily manipulated and aren’t too eager to please adults.
We need our kids to be more of that, starting with having close relationships with the safe adults in their lives.
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