Borderline personality disorder: A journey between emotional states | Earth Times News
Many borderliners had traumatic experiences as children. “They include experiences such as emotional neglect, a great loss, violence or sexual abuse,” says Frank-Michael Gann, co-founder of an online self-help forum.
Child abuse tied to later mental disorders – UPI.com
Abuse or neglect in childhood is associated with mental disorders as young adults, researchers in New Zealand suggest.
New Book: A Multimodal Approach to Address ADHD: A Non-Drug Emphasis
A new book just published last week, A Multimodal Approach to Address ADHD: A Non-Drug Emphasis, by Annie M. Wells, Ph.D., Director of Clinical Training in Psychology and Counseling at Alabama A&M University. The book is available from Authorhouse.com, Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com.
Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Brain Development
Understand the emotional, mental, and behavioral impact of early abuse and neglect in children who come to the attention of the child welfare system. This issue brief provides basic information for professionals on brain development and the effects of abuse and neglect on that development.
Gift From Within – Article: Helping Traumatized Children at School
For children and adolescents, exposure to traumatic events and the symptoms that follow may interfere with the ability to have a reasonably normal school experience. In fact, posttraumatic symptoms may make the school experience and other aspects of life intolerable for some children.
What’s in a word? When verbal abuse; plenty. Your Social Worker – Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW
Verbal abuse refers to the use of language as a means to control or subordinate another person for either self-gratification or to impose one’s view or will on another or to gain an unfair advantage in resolving a dispute. While both parties subject to a dispute may use inappropriate language with the other, verbal abuse has the distinction of one party typically causing more distress to the other party, and causing insecurities in that party typically for the purpose of exploitation. In other words, the person wielding the verbal abuse does so to gain an advantage over the abused typically to his or her own desire.
Foster youths need access to mental health care
Elise was placed in foster care at the age of 13, after being raped in her home by a man her mother knew. Just days later, Elise had to testify in her mother’s presence about the rape and her mother’s prostitution and drug addiction. The most resilient adult would struggle to cope with such trauma. Yet, Elise was unable to get any therapy or counseling for several months. Why? Because she was placed in a foster home outside the county where she lived.