This Week’s Links (weekly)

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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This Week’s Links (weekly)

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

What to Do When You Suspect Child Abuse tags: CA ChildAbuse U.N. Report: Child Abuse Is Rampant Globally tags: CA ChildAbuse The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim tags: CA ChildAbuse Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

New Year, New Authors?

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

Now that we are in to 2012, I want to remind folks reading here that while CBK and I try to post news items and book/TV/movie reviews that are of interest to abuse survivors, we also openly admit that there is more out there than we could ever keep track of. Given that submissions of…

Sharing – Abuse of male child not a myth: 17 per cent child sexual abuse cases from Kerala pertain to boys

Sharing – Abuse of male child not a myth: 17 per cent child sexual abuse cases from Kerala pertain to boys

ByMikeM Reading Time: 2 minutes

I share this article not to pick on India, or Kerala, but because that number, 17 percent, means there are a lot of male victims out there. If we assume, and I know we can, that only a small percentage of victims ever report, that’s a whole lot of victims, who may believe that, because of their gender, they cannot possibly be victims.

Jerry Sandusky Convicted, Gets Life for serial CSA against 10 boys

ByCBG Reading Time: 1 minute

Overnight UK time, The infamous Jerry Sandusky, former coach at Penn State, was found guilty of 45 of the 48 serial child sexual abuse charges against the boys he was scouting and training for the college. One of Sandusky’s children also disclosed during the course of the trial but was not put forward as a…

BBC Documentary tackles Abuse Prevention-led Criminal Record Checks

ByCBG Reading Time: 1 minute

In the UK we had a system known as the Criminal Records Bureau, or CRB, for ensuring that adults working with children and vulnerable adults neither possess a criminal record nor had they changed their names to avoid disclosure to prospective employers. This system was due to be replaced by a much wider-reaching checking system…

Reviews Elsewhere – A Twofer on Mental Health Treatment Then and Now

Reviews Elsewhere – A Twofer on Mental Health Treatment Then and Now

ByMikeM Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’m always on the lookout for reviews of books and resources that cover abuse and/or mental health issues, so I couldn’t resist an article from the New York Post recently – The shocking truth about America’s mental health crisis From that article we get reviews of two different books: In “Damnation Island,” a new history of…

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