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The Peer Support Trust in New Zealand
http://bit.ly/2kXYG5q Earlier studies of Peer Support include a brief report from a British psychologist with research interests in the area of bullying, who visited 12 New Zealand secondary schools in 2000 and was full of praise for the New Zealand Peer Support programme (Peer Support New Zealand, 2001). Other studies were done in the 1990s…
Free Male Survivor Peer Groups Restart Next Week
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#Childhood #abuse #casts #long #painful #shadows
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#Prostitution #primary #factor #sexual #abuse
Around 10 years ago, she said, she took part in a study to determine whether prostitutes began selling their body due to their drug addiction, or whether prostitution led women onto drug addiction. And the results were surprising. She explains, “At the time we knew that people who were not intoxicated by either drugs or…