Tracking the Impact of Early Abuse and Neglect
Children who experience abuse and neglect early in life are more likely to have problems in social relationships and underachieve academically ...
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Scottish Survivor Groups Encourage All Survivors of Abuse in Care to Take Part in a Milestone Consultation
Survivor groups in Scotland have called on all survivors of abuse in care to take part in an important consultation, ...
To Counter Child Abuse, Administrators and Case Workers Need Support to Implement Evidence-Based Improvements
In 2015, more than 425,000 children were placed in foster care due to incidents of abuse and neglect. But many ...
Exploring the Traumatic Impact of Criminalizing Policies on Black Women and Girls
Black Youth Project 100 with Freedom Side in New York City August 2014. (Photo: Caleb-Michael Files) The truth is, “black ...
The FCA and the American Health Care System: Finding the Balance
Medicare fraud, you see it in the news every day, but many believe it is individual recipients costing the government ...
Wading into Action at the Intersections, The Case for Bresha Meadows
Photo Credit: Verso Books On July 18th, 2016, 14 year old Bresha Meadows was arrested for shooting her abusive father ...
What to Do If You’re in a Long-term Relationship and You Think You’re Not Attracted to Your Partner
You used to stare across the dinner table and wink at each other; lately though, you barely even look each ...
Elder Abuse in the Twenty-First Century
In this “silver tsunami” era, elder populations are outnumbering the younger workforce. This creates significant inequity and more than enough ...
Why It’s Not So Easy to “Just Get the Hell Out”
One of the many difficult questions survivors of toxic relationships ask themselves is “why is it so hard to leave ...
Leaving Abusive Relationships Is Especially Hard for People in Minority Communities
Partners in abusive relationships — with psychopaths, narcissists, and other disordered individuals — often suffer in silence. This is especially ...
Helping Children Overcome Genetic Risk for Externalizing Disorders
Imagine loving someone, having children with that person, and then realizing that you've gotten yourself involved in an abusive relationship. ...
Bullying – A Dirty Word
Bullying is a ‘dirty word’ nowadays. Dirty are the people who use bullying to control you to please themselves because ...
Violence in my Rear View Mirror
By Tracy Cerff Too often we hear it said that a woman should ‘just leave’ a violent relationship. It is ...
Breaking the Stigma of Child Sex Abuse
Recently, celebrity actor Dax Shepard, who previously appeared on NBC’s Parenthood and is also married to actress Kristen Bell, revealed ...
Privilege and Power: The Role of Shame and Self-Awareness
If you are a helping professional, chances are you were trained in self-awareness and learned about its importance. In fact, self-awareness ...
Best Practices for Grief: Foster Care
Often, helping professionals in the lives of foster care youth struggle to understand the magnitude of loss a child or teen ...
How Do We Protect the Elderly from Fraud
According to the United States Department of Justice, 1 in 10 seniors over the age of 60 is abused every ...
Institutional Abuse: Why We Don’t Listen to Children Behind Bars
Already vulnerable. Shutterstock Anyone who has ever worked within children’s social care will have witnessed the journey a young child ...
What Racists and Child Rape Apologists Have in Common
I remember interviewing two women back to back for a federal research project. Both women were black. They were mother ...
The Social Poison of Gaslighting, and How to Deal With It
The term gaslighting originates from a play/film called Gas Light, in which a man tries to convince his wife she ...
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