Should sex offenders be legally prohibited from using social media?
Social media may help sex offenders find future victims. Should they be legally prohibited from using it? https://t.co/IMjiWYllR3 — Psychology Today (@PsychToday) February 28, 2017
1 in 4 Kiwi kids live in hardship
1 in 4 Kiwi kids live in hardship. This National Children’s Day #SupportAKiwiKid for 50c a day #TreasureOurChildren https://t.co/2UmlUWHfm2 — KidsCanNZ (@KidsCanNZ) February 27, 2017 What your support means for a child in need: Equality means having the same status, rights and opportunities as everyone else. Sadly in New Zealand thousands of children live in…
Henna tattoo brings down Kiwi sex abuser
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11806306 At his home, police found images of a young boy being sexually abused by an adult male. Both of their faces had been cropped out but the boy had a distinctive henna tattoo on his chest and a mole on his tummy. It wasn’t until the Argos team obtained family photos from Truong and…
Palmerston North seminar on sexual violence
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/89840649/palmerston-north-community-gather-for-seminar-on-sexual-violence Clearwater told the audience how being abused fuelled his rage as a young man. As a teenager Clearwater was expelled from his school in Christchurch after beating up a teacher and school prefect. He was later arrested for assaulting a police officer. He lost his job at a meat works after hitting another employee…
The Myth of Consent
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-conversation-we-need-to-have-about-milo-child_us_58ace71ae4b0598627a55e41 I’m not interested in parsing what the word “pedophilia” means, and whether Yiannopoulos was advocating it or not. I am interested in discussing child sexual abuse, which his remarks clearly described, and I am interested in talking about consent, which children cannot legally or meaningfully give to adults for sex under any circumstance. Milo…
Years before we met, my husband donated sperm
A really interesting read and something that's probable not thought about at the time of becoming a donor. https://t.co/STTgS2PjoV — Kiwi Families (@KiwiFamilies) February 27, 2017 Ten years ago he donated sperm. Like the counsellor said – this is my reality now. My reality is that the questions have already started coming. Those requests for…
Children with severe disabilities: more help preparing for life after school
Disabled students’ post-school transition lacking – advocate https://t.co/hZMjtZugMg via @radionz #InclusionMatters — NZ Human Rights (@NZHumanRights) February 27, 2017 He said the current system made it hard to prepare disabled students for independent living. Support for disabled students preparing to leave school should be better co-ordinated. “There’s no clear pathway, there’s no real plan in…
Blocked emotions often show up as anxiety or unexplained symptoms.
The good news, says Dr. Abbass, is that studies have shown that intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy reduces both medical and hospital costs dramatically. Treatment, consisting of an average of seven talk sessions with a psychotherapist, costs about $500, but results in a $12,700 reduction in hospital costs and doctors’ visits, he says. After treatment, 80…
Reccommended Documentary – Three approaches to psychotherapy – Carl Rogers , Fritz Perls, Albert Ellis
https://youtu.be/SgiX0QLnpBM