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Link – The mentally ill are sick. So why do we put them in jail?
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…
Sharing – Online therapy having its moment, bringing insights on how to expand mental health services going forward
Nicholas makes a good point about something that does need to be updated to allow for remote therapy. All this allows a continuity of care for clients that before was impossible; there is, however, a caveat. Because of the coronavirus, some of my clients at USF who live out-of-state have moved back home. That means,…
Link – Are Support Groups for Depression Really Helpful?
This is such an important caveat. Depression Support Groups are Helpful When They’re Good I attended a support group for abuse survivors for a short time, and it was a very bad experience for me. (I won’t get into details here, but mixing in one male survivor with a group of female survivors who had…
Review: Numb3rs – Growin’ Up (2010, US)
Note: The entire storyline of this episode from the last complete season is discussed below For the second time in Numb3rs history, a child abuse storyline has had a supporting character in a running B-plot, except for this time, he’s back rather than leaving and the wedding of two other characters also pads out the…
Child Protection E-Learning Courses
I’ve been exchanging emails this week with Victoria Simpson about a British website that offers e-learning courses about how to protect children. Here’s some of what she had to say about them: I am trying to raise awareness of these courses for my client and it is also a subject that is close to my…
