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Today it is not surprising that online education is becoming more frequently the common medium of information dissemination. For just about every topic, it seems as though there is a webinar or teleseminar that one can register for easily, and attend from the comfort of one’s couch. It’s a bit surprising that something as experiential as equine therapy can be taught via the internet, yet it is most certainly true.
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Connecting across Cultures: The Helpers Toolkit. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. 136pp. ISBN: 9781452217918. Chock-full of fun exercises, surprising tips, and real-world case examples, Connecting across Cultures: The Helpers Toolkit provides both students and professionals in social services, health care and education with the skills to develop respectful, smooth relationships with their clients and with the community at large.
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If you are considering setting up a volunteer service to provide emotional support to the distressed and suicidal, there are some important points to consider:
American Psychological Association Building a Therapeutic Alliance With the Suicidal Patient Edited by Konrad Michel, MD and David A. Jobes, PhD, ABPP Synopsis
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Signs Of Sexual Abuse In An Infant
According to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, sexual abuse in children is rarely a one-time event--it may last anywhere from one day to many years. While the average age of a sexually abused child is seven or eight, child abuse can, and sometimes does, start in infancy. Although an infant may not have the words to tell a parent or caretaker when she is the victim of sexual abuse, that doesn't mean there aren't signs. A sexually abused infant may exhibit pain when sitting or standing. An infant who cries or shows obvious discomfort when sitting or standing may have experienced injury to the genitals or rectum.
Mike Earl-Taylor and LindsayThomas In the South African context, the widespread sexual abuse of children has reached epidemic proportions and the recent highly publicised rape of infant girls, ranging in age from 0 to 2 years must surely start to provoke alarm bells ringing in a society where sexualised violence against women and children is reaching unprecedented levels. Rhodes University researchers Mike Earl-Taylor, and Ms Lindsay Rae Thomas, review one American expert's opinion on the devastating neurological and developmental impact of sexual abuse on pre-verbal infants. The following is an extract of an unpublished paper entitled " The Phenomenon of Infant Rape in South Africa." [Earl-Taylor: April, 2000].
The Long Term Neurological and Developmental Effects of Sexual Abuse on Infant Children
Active imagination is a path of cognition that uses the imagination as an organ of understanding. Disciplines of active imagination are found within various religious and spiritual traditions. It is perhaps best known in the West today through C. G. Jung 's emphasis on the therapeutic value of this activity.
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Carl Jung is a fascinating character in psychology’s history. Mentored by Freud himself, Jung broke off from Freud to found his own theory of human behavior, nowadays generally referred to as Jungian psychology. The Jungian theories place more emphasis on the spiritual side of our inner psyche, and the belief that all of humanity shares what he referred to as a collective unconscious.
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Dalal and Alaa Al-Homaizi, Northeastern psychology students who grew up in Kuwait, launched the campaign, SPEAK (Standing for Psychological Education and Awareness in Kuwait). Photo by Mary Knox Merrill. Mentally ill children in Kuwait are often isolated from the outside world, according to Northeastern University psychology students Alaa and Dalal Alhomaizi, twin sisters who grew up in the Arab state. “ It’s like they don’t exist,” Alaa said. As Dalal put it, “A family’s identity can be tarnished if the community finds out about a mentally ill relative. People would say, ‘This is the family with the crazy girl.’ ”Young Children Think Differently About Ownership: Scientific American Podcast
Mind & Brain :: 60-Second Mind :: October 9, 2011 :: :: Email :: Print Research shows that young children tend to think that naturally occurring objects like pinecones or rocks cannot be owned. Christie Nicholson reports MINE! That word appears early in life. Toddlers have an idea of ownership.
Tape Installation by Stephen Doyle. Photograph by Stephen Wilkes for The New York Times. Riverdale Country School in the Bronx. Randolph, by contrast, comes across as an iconoclast, a disrupter, even a bit of an eccentric. He dresses for work every day in a black suit with a narrow tie, and the outfit, plus his cool demeanor and sweep of graying hair, makes you wonder, when you first meet him, if he might have played sax in a ska band in the ’80s.
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Sexual violence disrupts the lives of victims and those who care about them. The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) is committed to giving survivors and their families and friends the resources they need to reclaim their lives and begin healing, to raising awareness of the issues survivors face, and to ending sexual violence through healing and social change. If you have or someone you care about has experienced sexual violence, you are not alone. You may have many questions but are unsure where to find answers. BARCC is here to help. Get Information...How do you talk to a second-grader about child pornography? How do you tell that same second-grader their teacher is accused of possession of those materials? Nearly 200 Underwood Elementary parents gathered in the school’s gym Thursday night asking just that – and trying to gain insight on approaching the touchy subject. “All of us work very hard, and in Newton we work especially hard to give our kids the best opportunities, the best protection,” said Dr. Michael Jellinek, president of Newton-Wellesley Hospital.