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People don’t think this sort of thing happens to men
'People don’t think this sort of thing happens to men:' Male rape survivor speaks out over … https://t.co/KJ13pRQXIl via @evening_tele — MaleSurvivor (@MaleSurvivorORG) November 16, 2019 “I was using medication and convincing myself I was taking control but I wasn’t. “It is so important that you don’t suffer in silence because it will make things…
Fix family violence by facing up to male sexual trauma
https://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/109792758/violence-against-women-men-arent-the-problem-or-the-solution?fbclid=IwAR1VAOtgsY4DbaQf2MhrV5Ek0v9wXGPma6DiRS96gKxZwk2ZiudtZ2-kV8g Men who are violent towards women tend to hate themselves. They hate that they feel vulnerable, and most of all, they hate feeling ashamed. Men’s feelings of vulnerability and shame, in conjunction with feelings of strength and protection, when not adequately integrated (i.e. the idea that one can be both vulnerable and strong at the same time) are a…
APA: Link between child pornography and child sexual abuse
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/12/child-abuse.aspx Clinical psychologists Michael Bourke, PhD, and Andres Hernandez, PsyD, have been making waves in the psychology and law enforcement communities with the recent release of a paper suggesting that men charged with Internet child pornography offenses and those who commit hands-on child sex offenses are, in many cases, one and the same. There has…
Global Implementation of Peer Support
Service users and researchers in HICs have advocated strongly for access to peer support for people with SMI [20, 21, 22]. In recent years, peer support has been adopted into policy in many English-speaking HICs (USA [23], Australia [24], New Zealand [25], Canada [26], UK [27]). The spread of peer support is also increasing across Europe. In…
Hamilton PhD student tackling country’s domestic violence problem
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/113676423/hamilton-phd-student-tackling-countrys-domestic-violence-problem\ Apriel Jolliffe Simpson spends her days wading through hundreds of family violence reports. At last count, there were more than 2000 case files from the Waikato and Canterbury regions, from November last year. The Hamilton PhD student is looking to identify risk-factors, and the nature of the incident, to see if she can find…
Dutch Pushing Back on Trumps Assault on Obamas Support International Civil Rights
The Dutch Government is planning to launch an international fund to finance access to birth control and abortion in developing countries, in order to fill the gap left after the Trump administration announced it would no longer fund any overseas aid organisations which discussed abortion. “Banning abortions does not result in fewer abortions,” Dutch Trade…