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#Police #society #disbelieve#@abused #women
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11765471 Aaron Gilmore was not even a teenager when he was sexually abused by a family friend he regarded as a second mother. But when he reported it to police years later they told him they couldn’t see what crime had taken place. He never reported that abuse or named the woman involved. Both men…
Crown prosecutor asked the judge to sentence Marshall to preventive detention.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300029715/man-who-videoed-years-of-child-sex-abuse-jailed-for-16-years-6-months Crown prosecutor Deborah Davies asked the judge to sentence Marshall to preventive detention. Preventive detention means an offender will be held for life unless they prove they are not a risk to the community. Marshall’s offending was lengthy and premeditated, while he denied almost everything when interviewed by psychologists. “He has caused lengthy, serious…
Connection Between Writing and Sleep
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-waves/201801/the-connection-between-writing-and-sleep A new study (link is external) in the Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests an easy an effective solution: Write in a journal for five minutes before bed. But critically, what helps most is not writing about what you accomplished during the day, but writing out your to-do list for tomorrow. In the study of…
#Easing #refugees #trauma #psychotherapy
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/bu-ert102717.php To deliver therapy to people in crisis zones, Neuner together with colleagues from the University of Konstanz and further supporters founded the aid organisation ‘Vivo’. It is training lay therapists in countries such as Sri Lanka, Ruanda, Uganda, and the Congo. Unlike Germany, the health systems of these countries do not provide access to…
Dissociation and dissociative disorders
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/dissociation-and-dissociative-disorders Dissociation is a mental process where a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity. Dissociative disorders include dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, depersonalisation disorder and dissociative identity disorder. People who experience a traumatic event will often have some degree of dissociation during the event itself or in the following hours, days…