tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260234762011-04-21T18:36:43.599-07:00Wounded HealersAlerting social workers, counselors, clergy and other helpful people to news and articles about counseling, life coaching, social work and related issuesJanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974463829853409977noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26023476.post-1145697849507381582006-04-22T02:18:00.000-07:002006-04-22T02:24:09.516-07:00Cult expert celebrates 30 years of cult counselingCult expert Steve Hassan celebrates 30 years of cult counseling and providing cult informationSomerville, MA. (PRWEB) April 22, 2006 -- Thirty years ago, Steve Hassan nodded off at the wheel of a fundraising van and crashed into the back of an eighteen-wheeler. At the time Hassan - firmly embedded in the Moonies cult - had been favored by top Unification Church leades for his disciple and zeal. Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974463829853409977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26023476.post-1145443267556035622006-04-19T03:37:00.000-07:002006-04-19T03:41:07.566-07:00Help yourself to philosophical self-help book'Little book' tackles the big question: Why am I here?Have you ever wondered why you exist? It's one of those basic philosophical questions that hit us hard at certain times in our lives.Does my life have any meaning? What am I doing here? What's my reason for getting up in the morning?Religious groups, psychoanalysts and plenty of bartenders have tried to fill in the blanks for us. But the Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974463829853409977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26023476.post-1144949612730113082006-04-13T10:31:00.000-07:002006-04-13T10:34:07.630-07:00'I was addicted to cutting myself'An inquiry has found more help should be given to young people who self-harm, while, in a new treatment approach, one hospital's scheme will allow patients who self harm to do so under supervision.Sophia Gill, a 26-year-old former sufferer, told the BBC how and why she began to cut herself.I don't think there was any particular reason, or one incident that started me self-harming.I was 14, I was Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974463829853409977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26023476.post-1144949163345791232006-04-13T10:18:00.000-07:002006-04-13T10:27:37.113-07:00More help for self-harmers urgedMore needs to be done to help young people who self-harm, a two-year inquiry into the issue has found.It said teachers, doctors and social workers do not receive the training they need to deal with self-harm cases, leaving many "struggling in the dark".The inquiry, by the charitable group the Camelot Foundation and the Mental Health Foundation, found self-harmers were more likely to turn to Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974463829853409977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26023476.post-1144925662414101192006-04-13T03:52:00.000-07:002006-04-13T03:54:22.416-07:00Self-help group for cocaine addicts sees good responseEdingburgh, Scotland - A new AA-style self-help group that gives cocaine addicts in Edinburgh the chance to get themselves off the drug has declared its first month of meetings a success.Cocaine Anonymous Scotland (CAS), which is modelled on Alcoholics Anonymous, targeted the Capital in light of the growing appetite for the class-A drug.Its weekly meetings started last month and a CAS spokesman Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974463829853409977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26023476.post-1144925220900480792006-04-13T03:45:00.000-07:002006-04-13T03:47:00.906-07:00Before you say 'I do'When Jeannine Calandra and Zachary Butterfield got engaged last year, they decided to work on their marriage, not just their wedding.So when the Arlington, Va., computer programmers began researching boutique hotels in Mexico, they also signed up for a premarital education course called PAIRS, an acronym for Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills. They hoped the seven-month course Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974463829853409977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26023476.post-1144924221889380202006-04-13T03:28:00.000-07:002006-04-13T03:44:03.893-07:00Peer counseling a good stepMom and Dad are wonderful guides in many facets of life, but they are not the ones teenagers look to on sex, drugs and alcohol.In Waltham, Brandeis University and local groups know this and are trying to help teens by having peers talk with each other under the supervision of college students. It is not a lecture by adults. It is discussion among peers. That makes it something very Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974463829853409977noreply@blogger.com0