Gunfire from a high-rise hotel rains down on a crowd at an open air country music festival on the Las Vegas strip. As of now, 59 victims have died, more than 500 others are injured. The horror that played out late Sunday night is a nightmare you hope would never happen. If you’re the parent …
By Joseph M. Honsberger, LCSW-C As I lay awake last night listening to the helicopters, the sirens, and watching the smoke of the CVS building rise into the air, I wondered what all this is for? How does this type of violence really help in obtaining justice for Freddie Gray or for anyone else? …
By Kim Morrill, LCSW-C While Domestic Violence is always an important issue, sometimes events unfold that highlight just how prevalent and frightening it is. Recent developments in the NFL, including the release of an extremely disturbing video that shows Ray Rice knocking out and dragging his then fiancée out of an elevator at a casino, …
By Susan Kurlander, M. Ed. Recently, as I was putting my youngest grandson (two years old) in for a nap, he asked me in all innocence, “Bubby, where did mommy’s penis go?” Totally taken aback, and, fortunately, not dropping him as I put him in the crib, I said, “Let’s ask Mommy and Daddy when …
By Debra K. Waranch, LCSW-C Every time a new mass shooting takes place…it gets people thinking. Recently some news organizations tallied up that there were 74 incidents in this country since the devastation at Sandy Hook. A recent one that caught our attention happened on a college campus in California. When everyone talks about the …
By Robyn Geller, Public Relations Coordinator It happened again…another senseless shooting…more helpless victims. Six people were killed and 13 injured in the bloodshed near the University of California, Santa Barbara. When tragedies like this occur, we all want answers. Why did this happen? What went wrong in the shooter’s life that laid the groundwork for …
by Jacki Post Ashkin, LCSW-C As I read the news reports in the days that followed the senseless shooting at Columbia Mall, what stood out to me most was the revelation that in shooter Darion Aguilar’s journal, he wrote about feeling unhappy, and that he thought he needed a mental health professional but never told …
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By Stacey E. Meadows, LCSW-C News of a shooting in a public place is always scary. We have been able to quell our own, and our children’s fears and concerns with stories like, “that kind of thing doesn’t happen here.” So what happens when tragedy does hit close to home, like it did at the …
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by Amy Meyers Steinberg They say it couldn’t happen here. But it did. On Saturday, a young man shot and killed 2 employees of a mall store in Columbia, MD and then took his own life. Lately, places like movie theaters, shopping centers, and even our schools no longer seem like the “safe havens” we …
By Helene Cooper, LCSW-C Most of us think of abuse as using physical force or the threat of physical harm to control or manipulate another person. Movies, television dramas, and news reports encourage us to recognize the very real threat of domestic violence in relationships. It’s much harder to identify, and to act on, the …
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