The idea that someone would deliberately hurt themselves is difficult of many of us to understand, but self-injuring--cutting, burning, scab picking--are increasingly and on the rise, especially in adolescent girls.
Deemed "the new Anorexia," self-injury behaviors commonly afflict middle and upper class teenage girls with average to high intelligence and low self-esteem. They are the "invisible" kids who get good grades and have nice friends. However, ninety percent of suffers have experienced some type of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a serious and common condition that affects up to 20 percen of American adults. While we may feel like we should be able to carry on with life, sometimes traumatic memories become so disabling that we can no longer cope or function.
Depression is a mood disorder with symptoms that can range from mild to life-threatening. It's a complicated disorder because it can negatively impact so many aspects of a person's life, from physical health and job performance to parenting and personal relationships. People who are depressed feel helpless and hopeless that life will never improve.
In some countries, the elderly enjoy and elevated social status because of their life experience and the wisdom they have to share. An extensive family network shares responsibility for older family member, who view it as an honor and opportunity to repay the debt of those who cared for them when they were small.
Caregivers confront many transitions and challenges as they focus on meeting the needs of their loved ones. The life of a caregiver is further complicated when the person they are caring for presents difficult behaviors. Part 1 focuses on a review of the types of "difficult people" that present these challenges to their families and caregivers.
Trauma And Post Traumatic Stress For 2009 National ConferenceMedicalWhistleblower
Persons who have experienced life altering trauma often have significant emotional and psychological effects called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This requires compassionate response from those closest to the survivor and from social service personnel and law enforcement officers.
More than one-third of marriages end in painful divorce. But the choices you make during divorce will influence your child's health and well-being over a lifetime.
The stakes are high. Kids from divorce families often experience higher rates of teen pregnancy, more diffilulties in school, and challenges in their own marriages. Two of the biggest predictors? The amount of conflict between you and your spouse and the amount of support from friends and family.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a serious and common condition that affects up to 20 percen of American adults. While we may feel like we should be able to carry on with life, sometimes traumatic memories become so disabling that we can no longer cope or function.
Depression is a mood disorder with symptoms that can range from mild to life-threatening. It's a complicated disorder because it can negatively impact so many aspects of a person's life, from physical health and job performance to parenting and personal relationships. People who are depressed feel helpless and hopeless that life will never improve.
In some countries, the elderly enjoy and elevated social status because of their life experience and the wisdom they have to share. An extensive family network shares responsibility for older family member, who view it as an honor and opportunity to repay the debt of those who cared for them when they were small.
Caregivers confront many transitions and challenges as they focus on meeting the needs of their loved ones. The life of a caregiver is further complicated when the person they are caring for presents difficult behaviors. Part 1 focuses on a review of the types of "difficult people" that present these challenges to their families and caregivers.
Trauma And Post Traumatic Stress For 2009 National ConferenceMedicalWhistleblower
Persons who have experienced life altering trauma often have significant emotional and psychological effects called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This requires compassionate response from those closest to the survivor and from social service personnel and law enforcement officers.
More than one-third of marriages end in painful divorce. But the choices you make during divorce will influence your child's health and well-being over a lifetime.
The stakes are high. Kids from divorce families often experience higher rates of teen pregnancy, more diffilulties in school, and challenges in their own marriages. Two of the biggest predictors? The amount of conflict between you and your spouse and the amount of support from friends and family.
Kurt Adler describes the cause and treatment of Depression according to Individual Psychology, his father's groundbreaking theory on human motivation and pathology.
Community Care Live (May 2014) Presentation by Richard Cross and Linda Moss
Five Rivers Child Care attended Community Care and gave a talk on Trauma and Attachment informed practice for children in residential and foster care. It was felt to be so helpful that it was repeated in the afternoon and generated many queries from practitioners.
When a child has been abused and neglected they have often suffered physical trauma directly or by witnessing it with others and we now know that this impedes their physiological development and their brain capacity - they suffer emotional and physical developmental delays and have problems with learning.
Foster carers and residential staff at Five Rivers are being trained on an ongoing basis as research informs our practice, to help work with the traumatised child. In addition a child will often have problems with poor attachment, the two making each other worse. Our work helps us identify the types of help a child needs while they are in placement and gives us 'every day' ways of working - even by the non-professional therapist.
This being part of the professional therapeutic team is what helps Five Rivers get results for the children they care for. It is part of what makes our carers commit to above and beyond what many will do.
Five Rivers challenges the local authorities to make commitments to their children's placements to allow sufficient time to work with the children and make a real difference.
Where there are good partnership relationships this has really benefited the children in their residential and fostering placements. We have excellent successes in placements lasting well despite being sorely tested.
By Annette Selmer, MS, LPC; Facilitated by Jackei Fabrick, MA, LPC at May 2011 Oregon Problem Gambling Services Spring Training.
Please contact presenters for use or sharing of presentation material.
By nature, teens are volatile emotionally and stressed by increasing pressures from parents, society, and peers to over-achieve academically, be popular, and fit and unrealistic body image ideal.
What can you do as a parent? Stay close to your teen-ager. Know where she is and what he is doing. Be a positive role model in the choices you make. Your teen learns by watching what you do, not what you say.
Environmental design in support of trauma recoverykarenatskw
The current paper presents the concepts behind the design of a homelike facility on a secluded campus for long-term
residential care for exploited adolescents, specifically females ages 11-17, who have been victims of commercial sexual
exploitation. The treatment model is innovative in that it is a long-term treatment and housing solution with no pre-defined
maximum length of stay. Integral to the model is the assumption that the built environment has direct and indirect effects
on mental health.(1) This paper presents the research behind the design thinking and specific design elements to create
a homelike environment. Research indicates the positive effects of a familiar homelike environment. to be: support of a
healthy, coherent life view; lowering of resident and staff stress levels and restoration from fatigue; facilitating personal
control; and supporting socially supportive relationships. The result is that residents are more trusting and accepting of
treatment. Research on the direct correlation between the homelike character and specific residential design elements to
the success of treatment will be forthcoming when the model site, Courage House Northern California is operational.
Overview of Crisis Stress Defusing for Religious Crisis Care Providers. Particular focus on Disaster Response. Emphasis is on the NOVA methods of stress defusing, although others are discussed.
3rd Draft version of Presentation for 11/19/2009 - KU Palliative Care Fellowship Lecture Series. Uploaded to show the evolution of creating a slide presentation
Children who live with domestic violence face a high risk of exposure to traumatizing events, neglect, being directly abused, and losing one or both of their parents,
When they witness abuse at home, children also grow up anxious, fearful, and hopeless. They are often insecure and worried about the future. They are at high risk for substance abuse, dropping out of school, and the complications that come with chronic stress-related disorders.
It is a normal process, not a psychiatric disorder. Everyone moves through grief at their won pace and in their own way, It's a lifelong process.
Seek help from a qualified therapist if you feel stuck in your grief, you don't want to burden your close friends with your grief, or you want to provide active support to someone who is grieving.
Kurt Adler describes the cause and treatment of Depression according to Individual Psychology, his father's groundbreaking theory on human motivation and pathology.
Community Care Live (May 2014) Presentation by Richard Cross and Linda Moss
Five Rivers Child Care attended Community Care and gave a talk on Trauma and Attachment informed practice for children in residential and foster care. It was felt to be so helpful that it was repeated in the afternoon and generated many queries from practitioners.
When a child has been abused and neglected they have often suffered physical trauma directly or by witnessing it with others and we now know that this impedes their physiological development and their brain capacity - they suffer emotional and physical developmental delays and have problems with learning.
Foster carers and residential staff at Five Rivers are being trained on an ongoing basis as research informs our practice, to help work with the traumatised child. In addition a child will often have problems with poor attachment, the two making each other worse. Our work helps us identify the types of help a child needs while they are in placement and gives us 'every day' ways of working - even by the non-professional therapist.
This being part of the professional therapeutic team is what helps Five Rivers get results for the children they care for. It is part of what makes our carers commit to above and beyond what many will do.
Five Rivers challenges the local authorities to make commitments to their children's placements to allow sufficient time to work with the children and make a real difference.
Where there are good partnership relationships this has really benefited the children in their residential and fostering placements. We have excellent successes in placements lasting well despite being sorely tested.
By Annette Selmer, MS, LPC; Facilitated by Jackei Fabrick, MA, LPC at May 2011 Oregon Problem Gambling Services Spring Training.
Please contact presenters for use or sharing of presentation material.
By nature, teens are volatile emotionally and stressed by increasing pressures from parents, society, and peers to over-achieve academically, be popular, and fit and unrealistic body image ideal.
What can you do as a parent? Stay close to your teen-ager. Know where she is and what he is doing. Be a positive role model in the choices you make. Your teen learns by watching what you do, not what you say.
Environmental design in support of trauma recoverykarenatskw
The current paper presents the concepts behind the design of a homelike facility on a secluded campus for long-term
residential care for exploited adolescents, specifically females ages 11-17, who have been victims of commercial sexual
exploitation. The treatment model is innovative in that it is a long-term treatment and housing solution with no pre-defined
maximum length of stay. Integral to the model is the assumption that the built environment has direct and indirect effects
on mental health.(1) This paper presents the research behind the design thinking and specific design elements to create
a homelike environment. Research indicates the positive effects of a familiar homelike environment. to be: support of a
healthy, coherent life view; lowering of resident and staff stress levels and restoration from fatigue; facilitating personal
control; and supporting socially supportive relationships. The result is that residents are more trusting and accepting of
treatment. Research on the direct correlation between the homelike character and specific residential design elements to
the success of treatment will be forthcoming when the model site, Courage House Northern California is operational.
Overview of Crisis Stress Defusing for Religious Crisis Care Providers. Particular focus on Disaster Response. Emphasis is on the NOVA methods of stress defusing, although others are discussed.
3rd Draft version of Presentation for 11/19/2009 - KU Palliative Care Fellowship Lecture Series. Uploaded to show the evolution of creating a slide presentation
Children who live with domestic violence face a high risk of exposure to traumatizing events, neglect, being directly abused, and losing one or both of their parents,
When they witness abuse at home, children also grow up anxious, fearful, and hopeless. They are often insecure and worried about the future. They are at high risk for substance abuse, dropping out of school, and the complications that come with chronic stress-related disorders.
It is a normal process, not a psychiatric disorder. Everyone moves through grief at their won pace and in their own way, It's a lifelong process.
Seek help from a qualified therapist if you feel stuck in your grief, you don't want to burden your close friends with your grief, or you want to provide active support to someone who is grieving.
Child molestation is the act of sexually touching a child. Today, 2 out of 10 girls and 1 out of every 10 boys has been molested. In fact, 13 million children are molested before they are 14 years old!
And most never tell because they are ashamed, are afraid of the molester, or fear no none will believe them. The fact is, 90% of sex abusers molest children close to them....family members, neighbors, or children of of parents in their social circle, not strangers.
Marriage and Family Therapists (MFT's) are relationship experts. They work with individuals, couples, families, children, adolescents, and the elderly, providing support and perspective as patients struggle with life's challenges.
Eating disorders of all types-from Anorexia and Bulimia to binge eating and obesity-are on the rise among children, teens, women, men, and athletes. Because eating disorders are one of the few psychiatric disorders you can directly die from, it's critical to understand why your eating is disordered and take active steps for recovery.
Regardless of where u live though, you have several options on how you choose to proceed with divorce and child custody/visitation issues, You can file for divorce yourself, hire an attorney to represent you in court, or go ti mediation with your spouse, California law requires you to include a parenting plan when you file for divorce.
Remember, the choices you make now will impact the emotional and financial well-being of you and your children for years to come.
With the ongoing opioid epidemic, availability or marijuana and other drugs addiction has become a problem with no class lines. The story of pain medication following surgery leading to opioid addiction and heroin is everywhere.
As Executive Protection you may not of thought of this as part of your job description , and you are in a unique position of Influence and Trust to identify and help intervene when the persons with problems are clients and their loved ones.
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1. Who Self-Harms and Why?
The idea that someone would deliberately hurt
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are increasingly common and on the rise, especially
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Self-injury is a complex long-term problem and sign of
acute psychological distress. However, recovery is possible The California Association of Marriage and Family
for those who seek treatment. Those who self-injure are Never set ultimatums. They don’t work. Removing tools Therapists (CAMFT) is an independent statewide non-
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