It’s a Scary World
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 …
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Broken-Hearted for Our Baltimore
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 …
Domestic Violence: It Can Happen Anywhere
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 …
Talking With Your Child About Sexual Abuse
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 …
A Painful Puzzle
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 …
The Importance of Teaching that Everyone Counts
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 …
Columbia Mall Shooter: Could He Have Been Helped?
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, …
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That kind of thing doesn’t happen here…but it did.
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 …
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In Our Own Backyard
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 …
The Wounded Heart: The impact of verbal abuse on women in a “loving” relationship
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 …
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