Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
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Let’s take a moment to appreciate the partners of people with mental health issues
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Friends in Crisis: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the partners of people with mental health issues
Friends in Crisis: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland in relation to the child abuse charges to which he pleaded guilty over 30 years ago, when he slept with a 13-year-old. Since 1977 the director lived and worked outside America to avoid arrest. It’s an unfolding story and we will have to see whether the charges are…
Catching up with general stories in Child Abuse Awareness Month, the Quebec Provincial Police force in Canada has added some extra staff to concentrate on tracking internet predators. MSN archived the story here but CBC News has extra comment online following the announcement here. – CBG
These sound so familiar to me as a survivor, and someone who has heard the stories of many other survivors, and adult children of alcoholics. “As a therapist, I’ve heard hundreds of stories of children, now adults, who suffered terribly at the hands of the very people who were supposed to care for them. And…
“The study, published this month in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, included data on more than 11,000 people age 50 and older. Those who met with family and friends once every few months or less were nearly twice as likely to be depressed two years later than those who met up very often,…
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This seems like a huge problem… Given how few children and adolescents get the care they need, schools too often become the de facto front line for explosive children who might have behavioral problems for a host of complicated reasons, including the possible toxic combination of ADHD and trauma. Researchers have found that children who…