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How Do We Stop Child Abuse? tags: CA For Cleveland Victims, Trust and Comfort May Be First Steps in Healing tags: CA Children and PTSD tags: CA Bullying in the Culture of Sport Coaching, Part II tags: CA Sports Video on sex abuse: Animated short helps kids with tough topic tags: CA Posted from Diigo….
Reading – 5 Things I Wish You Knew About My Child Who Has Mental Illness
We talk about stigma for folks dealing with mental illness, but probably no one get stigmatized more than children with mental illnesses. This a great story about how bad it can be for those kids, but also how, with the correct, treatment, these same kids can go on and lead great lives. 5 Things I…
Reviews Elsewhere – Tell Me Your Story: How Therapy Works to Awaken, Heal and Set You Free
As always, when I don’t have the time to review books and resources myself, I like to point to others reviews. Here’s one from the PyschCentral website: http://psychcentral.com/lib/book-review-tell-me-your-story/ As stated clearly in the subtitle, Dr. Pearl has written her book for the everyday person struggling with everyday life. Avoiding the overused “self-help” model, she focuses…
Sharing – A third of parents are embarrassed to seek mental health support for their children
We are going nowhere with this. We are still looking at kids with mental health struggles as a product of bad parents, and discouraging parents from getting their kids the help they need at a young age. Then, without treatment, they just grow up into adults with worsening symptoms who need ever more help.
Is this really the cycle we want to be in? This makes no sense. It’s not about raising awareness anymore, I suspect it’s about putting an end to passing judgment on every single thing parents do, or don’t do. We’ve got to stop that. We’re only hurting more and more kids.
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Making sports safer for kids is a never-ending fight ‘Teachers aren’t experts – they need tools to talk about mental health’ Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center Shows How Kids Heal From Abuse Inmates With Mental Illness I work as a GP and feel powerless to treat patients with mental illness The Awkward Conversation: How to Respond…
