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Tackling substance abuse together
Pharmacy faculty member brings 260 people together to stem the rising tide of heroin and opioid abuse.
Assistant Professor Laura Palombi
Seeing how the growing abuse of opioids and heroin was affecting her northern Minnesota community, Laura Palombi sprang into action.
A member of the grassroots Carlton County Drug Abuse Task Force, Palombi, an assistant professor at the U of M College of Pharmacy’s Duluth campus, and a colleague from a community health board secured a grant from the University to hold a community forum in the town of Cloquet in October 2015. The organizers expected a turnout of 50…
How Prisons Abuse People with Mental Illness
People with mental health problems need treatment, not torture. Yet instead of being given the care they need, people are punished with solitary confinement ...
10 commonly abused psychology words — and what they really mean
Many of the psychology terms we use in causal conversation don't mean what we think they do
The Beauty and Abuse of Empathy: How Virtue Becomes a Tyrant
Empathy moves us toward suffering, arouses our love, and attunes us to others’ emotions. But empathy can also become a tyrant.
What about divorce and abuse?
Evangelicals have never been monolithic in their views about divorce. Some believe that the Bible disallows divorce altogether. Others believe that the Bible allows for divorce in certain situation…
First responders and mental health: Finding ways to help
PTSD, substance abuse, and other mental health issues have been ripping through the ranks of fire departments, law enforcement agencies, and paramedics for years.
How dying churches abuse pastors
Gene Fowler examines why traumatized congregations so often attack their leaders.
5 Step Guide For Recovering From Narcissistic Abuse
Narcissistic abuse will cause you to question your own sanity. This is your guide to leaving the narcissist and recoverying from the abuse.
The Editors: To prevent abuse, clericalism must be uprooted.
Today more and more women religious are speaking up and demanding that the church hold abusers to account.
Why Do Pastors Keep Getting Rehired After Abuse?
Victims’ advocates caution institutions against plans to “restore” fallen leaders.
How The Narcissist Gets Away With Abusing People And Come Off As A Good Person
I think you’ve been there before. You learned everything about the narcissist, you know who the narcissist is, but the thing with narcissists is they have “lucky charms” that work for them and carry their dirty laundry while making sure no one sees that the king is naked. So, it is very hard to live in a world that seems to be created to breed and serve these cheaters and manipulators. These chameleons have multiple faces that they proudly display to others and…
Why this Lent is an opportunity to get our response to sex abuse right
A summit hosted by The Leadership Roundtable found concrete ways to address the church’s twin crises: a crisis of abuse and a crisis of leadership failures and cover-up.
How do we create a space of healing at church for victims of sexual abuse?
Over one in three women and nearly one in four men have experienced sexual assault at some point in their lives, according to the CDC, and about one in four girls and one in 13 boys experience sexual abuse at some point in childhood. The statistics are staggering, but we may feel paralyzed by our inexperience and unfamiliarity with the topic.
How do we restore trust in our church after the sex abuse crisis?
We must pray for the grace to proceed boldly wherever the painful truth of our failures leads us, trusting in the One who is faithful to the end.
Why the Catholic Church needs a Eucharistic response to the sex abuse scandals
Does the Church, as the Body of Christ, offer a response to the sex abuse scandals?
Cardinal Cupich: How can we end clerical sex abuse and purify the church?
We should be fearless in making clear that tolerating clergy sexual abuse stands in total contradiction to the core of the Gospel message.
Why We Need Evangelicals
The word "evangelical" is one of the most abused words in our culture and even in the church. Earlier in my adult life, I almost always encountered this ...
and how to tackle it
Why do we drop stuff that we need to finish in order to start other things - or worse, between our to do’s and Facebook?
In a Bad Mood? Tackle a Creative Task
A new study suggests that negative emotion may actually be a pretty good launching pad for creativity.
Could inflammation be the key to tackling depression?
How to Tackle Social Anxiety
If you feel unusually anxious in crowds or social situations, try these tips.
