Overcoming Child Abuse

The time has come to expose the horror of missionaries abusing children, to hold the perpetrators accountable, and to support survivors in their quest for healing. Read More

Read about how writing both helps to heal the wounds of child abuse and also promotes physical health. Read More

Join me with noted sex therapist and author of "The Sexual Healing Journey" as she discusses guidelines for survivors of sexual abuse and their intimate partners. Read More

My PT blog assignment, under the main topic of resiliency, is to write about different issues related to overcoming child abuse. Is there anything more abusive than a massacre in a movie theater? Read More

Yesterday, while searching on Twitter for a colleague of mine, a new tweet arrived from CNN: “Parents charged after baby found in carry-on luggage.” What? Really? It’s too horrible to think about. I considered not even mentioning it to you now, but decided that you’d probably see it on the news anyway, or hear it on the radio, over and over. Read More

Over the nearly two years that I’ve been a contributing writer for Psychology Today I’ve written about many issues and experiences related to my assigned topic of overcoming child abuse. I’ve tried to examine, to teach, and to share. Read More

We are now into the last week of April, National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Many of us have recently paid our taxes; all of us are feeling the impact of economic crises throughout the world. Read More

If you read the blog I posted yesterday about Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions, and you're not particularly psychologically minded, you may be wondering why I'm so concerned. Appreciating the beauty of a woman's body is just healthy sexuality, you may say. Read More

One of the things I love about being a therapist and a writer is that both require that I do a lot of reading. This past weekend, while preparing for a workshop on marriage, I pulled out a book I'd bought several months ago and hadn't had time to read yet: Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Read More

I've often written about forces in our culture that create and perpetuate child abuse, and I'll continue to do so.  But one of my personal blogging goals for the new year is to highlight projects and events around the country that contribute to creating the kind of social change that both protects children from abuse, and promotes the healing of those who suffer from the wounds of abuse. Read More

Horrific reports of child abuse have flooded our news media throughout 2011. In fact, over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. That is nearly four times the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read More

I wanted to write a light, uplifting, even funny blog for Thanksgiving this year, but yesterday afternoon, after a week of intensive anxiety, extensive tests and results, one of my dearest friends was diagnosed with a very serious cancer.  Since hearing the news, I've been drifting back and forth from shock and denial into sadness and depression, and yes, anger, too. Read More

Halloween always stirs up a bit of nostalgia for me. I grew up in the 1950's and 60's in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and it was beautiful, particularly in October. My neighborhood was a community. People greeted each other, talked to each other, told on each other. Read More

I was cleaning out my filing cabinet recently and came across a handout, a list of questions under the heading Am I Parent Material? which I'd used while teaching an undergraduate class in family and human development at Auburn University almost 30 years ago. Read More