I attended a training recently by Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC, on best practices in mental health and substance abuse treatment. He raised some interesting points about dependence and recovery. What makes for a better outcome for those people who have developed substance dependence? I learned that people who have greater resources before the problematic substance […]
I attended a training recently by Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC, on best practices in mental health and substance abuse treatment. He raised some interesting points about dependence and recovery. What makes for a better outcome for those people who have developed substance dependence? I learned that people who have greater resources before the problematic substance […]
Personally, I want our political and religious leaders to aspire to be ethical, trustworthy, and decent individuals who will make every effort to be a servant of the public. Leaders are held to a higher standard of personal behavior when they seek public offices with civic and leadership responsibilities. Unfortunately, many leaders fall short of […]
With a new school year beginning during the Covid19 pandemic, parents are caught in a dilemma. Should I send my child to school or keep them home? One mother said, “I can’t get past the guilt. Guilt if I’m not letting my kids connect with other kids, vs. guilt that I send them and they […]
As of the date of writing this column, July 19, 2020, the U.S. has 3,698,161 confirmed Covid19 cases and 139,659 deaths, according to the CDC. We don’t know if illness or death is just around the corner for us. And yet, according to a 2019 survey by Caring.com, 57 percent of U.S. adults do not […]
I saw a Facebook post that said, “I wonder why we did not fix this racial issue when we had a black president for 8 years?” This social media post was presumably a response to recent Black Lives Matter protests. My response was to suggest that 400 years of systemic racism can’t change in 8 […]
Author Robin DiAngelo of White Fragility, Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, challenges the assumption that racism has to be intentional. Most people feel good intentions exempt them from accountability. She calls for white people to examine their bias and its impact on people of color, not their intentions. This […]
I happened to see a powerful video in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests. It made me ponder on the role of revenge. Kimberly Latrice Jones was extremely angry and made this statement. “They are lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.” The desire to seek revenge for […]
Warning: This contains offensive language WGN TV viewers were recently subject to watching a female reporter being assaulted on a live news show. Gaynor Hall was broadcasting a news segment on weather damage on May 23rd, when Eric Farina, age 20, caught her off guard, seemingly coming out of nowhere, by grabbing her shoulders and […]
At the time of this writing, protests over racism and police violence have continued in at least 75 cities across the United States and London, Berlin, and Toronto in the days after George Floyd, a black man, was murdered by a white police officer. A video captured the incident in which Floyd is already pinned […]