Photovoice intervention with PTSD
http://www.futurity.org/photovoice-sexual-assault-ptsd-1305862-2/ Photovoice interventions, combined with standard treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, could help survivors recover from sexual assault, say researchers. One out of every six American women has experienced a sexual assault or an attempted sexual assault or rape in her lifetime, according to the National Institute of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control…
Fascism happens when a culture fracturing along social lines is encouraged to unite against a perceived external threat
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/08/europe-shouldn-t-worry-about-migrants-it-should-worry-about-creeping-fascism The behaviour of the British and wider European elite towards migrants is not simple inhumanity. It is strategic inhumanity. It is weaponised inhumanity designed to convince populations fracturing under hammer-blows of austerity and economic chaos that the enemy is out there, that there is an “us” that must be protected from “them”. There is…
We cannot survive without our oceans
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/an-ocean-renaissance-is-key-to-our-survival?utm_content=buffer1c6a4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer The heat transferred by this “river within an ocean” brings a mild, moist, warm climate to Europeans. The gulf stream moves this heat at a speed 300 times the average speed of the Amazon, and at a volume greater than all rivers in the world, combined. Without the gulf stream, England would be like…
Neglect due to drugs greater risk than physical abuse
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11745201 A Herald investigation of the root causes of child abuse, starting today, finds that schools are more afraid of parents neglecting their children because of drugs and alcohol than they are of direct physical abuse. “It’s not the black eyes, it’s more children that have had a lack of sleep because there’s been a…
Countries that prevent their citizens accessing social networks
As Russia blocks LinkedIn: these countries already deny access to social networks https://t.co/N5lD6Peyvx pic.twitter.com/uWpkQE1Peq — World Economic Forum (@wef) December 4, 2016 Russia’s communications regulator has ordered internet service providers to block public access to social networking site LinkedIn to comply with a court ruling that found the firm guilty of violating data laws. Domestic…
Who knew ? We have blasphemy law in New Zealand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_New_Zealand In New Zealand, Section 123[1] of the Crimes Act 1961 allows for imprisonment up to one year for anyone who publishes any “blasphemous libel”. Prosecution may proceed only with the leave of the Attorney-General.[2] To date the only prosecution for blasphemous libel in New Zealand has been the case of John Glover, publisher of…
Sugar craving (& when will the U.S. go metric ?)
A 12-ounce can of soda has 10 teaspoons of sugar, which is more than our daily recommendation for sugar intake: https://t.co/irbjV22boC — Cleveland Clinic (@ClevelandClinic) December 3, 2016
Bertolucci: He was fat and sweaty and very manipulative
http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/news/a41202/bertolucci-last-tango-in-paris-rape-scene-non-consensual/ It’s known as one of the most infamous rape scenes in Hollywood history-but Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci admitted in a recently surfaced video that star Maria Schneider never consented to it. Instead, Bertolucci confessed in the 2013 clip that he and Marlon Brando came up with the idea to shoot the…
Peer Support: Underlying theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_support The effectiveness of peer support is believed to derive from a variety of psychosocial processes described best by Mark Salzer in 2002:[2] social support, experiential knowledge, social learning theory, social comparison theory and the helper-therapy principle.[3] Social support is the existence of positive psychosocial interactions with others with whom there is mutual trust and…