The story in Canada is the same story we see everywhere else. We put people struggling with their mental health in jail because they are inconvenient and we don’t have anywhere else to put them.
That there are no other available treatment options aside from throwing them in prison, possibly the worst thing we could do in terms of treatment, is no one’s fault but our own.
For those of you with kids, or who work in education, I thought this recent announcement might interest you: Today, MHA launches our annual Back to School Toolkit to give parents, teachers, and school personnel the tools and resources they need to support their children’s mental health. You can register and download the toolkit at…
The Guardian is running a blog series on American prisons. The most recent entry tackled prison rape in private facilities and discussed one ex-con’s fight for full disclosure on sexual assault statistics using his minority shareholding. That article is here and the link for the whole series to date is here.
FBI changes definition of rape to include men tags: CA Psych Central Weekly News Podcast, Jan. 5 2012 tags: CA Learning Acceptance and Gaining Peace tags: CA New Year’s Resolution: Letting Go tags: CA Extend Yourself tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
I wanted to share this article because I think Megan makes a good point. We often tell those suffering with mental health issues to “get help”, without also acknowledging how hard that really is. We compare it to a physical illness where, of course,people would ask for help, like asking family to assist us during…
Watch for signs of depression in teenage boys tags: CA The Disturbing Discrepancy & Double Standard Between Mental Illness & Other Health Concerns tags: CA You Can Help Save a Life… But Not Today tags: CA Child Abuse, Incest, Domestic Violence – In The Silence Nothing Changes tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of…
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