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Building Trust To Coerce Victims Into Compliance And Secrecy
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http://bit.ly/2Om92Yp 5. Learn when to stop seeking information and start acting. People who are intolerant of uncertainty often read masses of information before taking any action because they’re trying to feel absolutely certain of (1) how best to proceed, and (2) that their actions will lead to the outcome they want. For example, reading 10…

#Some #People #Have #Difficult #Relationships
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They don’t always garner the empathetic and supportive response they need
http://bit.ly/2PkJbAK Even worse, when sexually abused males do choose to talk about their abuse, they don’t always garner the empathetic and supportive response they need, because all of us—even therapists—are trapped in the man rules to some degree. Even highly trained clinicians have societally influenced expectations, sometimes thinking that sexually abused males should be able…
Does Virtual-reality Therapy for PTSD work?
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