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When someone asked me, “Do you treat men?” I realized I needed to openly address mental health concerns and challenges specific to men. From a trauma-informed point of view, there’s not much difference in the course of therapy when working with either men or women. What is different, if anything, about therapy for men? As therapists, we need to be aware of how men may show up differently than women in therapy. Cultural beliefs, norms and expectations shape how men experience emotions and...

Excerpt from the New York Times Magazine. Full article here . "The reasons for the black-white divide in both infant and maternal mortality have been debated by researchers and doctors for more than two decades. But recently there has been growing acceptance of what has largely been, for the medical establishment, a shocking idea: For black women in America, an inescapable atmosphere of societal and systemic racism can create a kind of toxic physiological stress, resulting in conditions —...

Several Spartanburg County service providers and nonprofit organizations know the importance of working together to create a healthier community, especially for the community’s youngest generation. On Monday, a group of agencies and entities that comprise the Spartanburg Partners in Prevention kicked off a month of awareness for the prevention of child abuse and sexual assault. April is national Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The prevention group, which...

Josette Manning is secretary of the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and their Families. This month is Child Abuse Prevention Month. For the past 35 years since the first national designation by President Reagan, April has been a time to recognize that child abuse and neglect are problems in every state and community in our country. It is also a time to remember that each of us can make a difference and actually take steps to prevent child abuse. Research shows that two...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — KOAT is taking a look at childhood trauma and how it impacts New Mexicans as adults. There’s a tool used to gauge how bad a person's trauma is and how likely they are to abuse alcohol or drugs, or suffer from depression. As a young girl, Linda Griego Chavez said she learned how to disappear. She said it was her way of surviving. “My father was schizophrenic and my mother was bipolar,” she said. [For more on this story by Royale Da , go to...

Old age may have its downsides, but losing the ability to grow new brain cells isn’t one: healthy people in their seventies seem to produce just as many new neurons as teenagers. The discovery overturns a decades-old theory about how our brains age and could provide clues as to how we can keep our minds sharper for longer. To read more of Helen Thomson's article (via a subscription), please click here.

There is a reckoning taking place in America over how we remember our history. Much of the focus has been on whether or not to take down monuments that celebrate the Confederacy. But this story is about a new monument going up in Montgomery, Alabama. It documents the lynchings of thousands of African-American men, women and children during a 70 year period following the Civil War. The project is being led by criminal defense attorney Bryan Stevenson, who is determined to shed light on a dark...

In 1996, right after voters in California banned affirmative action in employment and college admissions, minority student enrollment at two and four-year institutions plummeted. What has happened since though, is pretty remarkable. Of the 2.8 million students attending college in California today, two out of three come from racially and ethnically diverse populations. The most eye-popping increase in enrollment has been among Latinos. They now make up 43 percent of all college students in...

In Arizona in 2015, a riot broke out in a private prison where previously three inmates had escaped and murdered a vacationing couple. After order was restored, the state revoked the contract of Management & Training Corporation and hired another private prison firm, the GEO Group. Three years earlier, the GEO Group had surrendered its contract to run a Mississippi prison after a federal judge ruled that the inmates had not been protected from gang violence. The replacement: Management...

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was honored this month by a state charity for its efforts to proactively help low-income families access state benefits. DHHS was the recipient of the Compassion in Action Award, given out each year by the Matt Talbot Kitchen and Outreach Center (MTKO), a Lincoln-based nonprofit with a mission to prevent hunger and homeless. “The DHHS team has gone above and beyond to answer, or find the answer to, questions that do not necessarily...

ATLANTA—It was not until a few years after he moved in that Zachary Anderson realized that he was not, in fact, the owner of the house he thought he’d purchased. Anderson had already spent tens of thousands of dollars repairing a hole in the roof, replacing a cracked sidewalk, and fixing the ceilings of the small two-bedroom home where he lives in southwest Atlanta. He was trying to get a reduction in his property taxes when his brother, who was helping him with his taxes, looked up the...

Shortly after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside his motel room in Memphis on April 4, 1968, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller issued a public statement. A true memorial to King, he said, “cannot be made of stone, it must be made of action.” Five days later, the governor was in Atlanta to attend the civil rights leader’s funeral, and he expected to go to sleep that night having followed through on his statement. Rockefeller had been elected governor in 1958; he’d already left...