Immigration related trauma has many faces. Complex cultural, political and social issues arise when people choose or are forced to leave their country of…
Parents often feel guilty, siblings may feel pushed aside, and the ill adolescent may worry that everyone is against her. Conflicts arise around food, eating,…
Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging. Trauma shames and stigmatizes; the group bears witness and affirms. Trauma degrades the victim; the group…
The Canadian Association of Music Therapy (CAMT) describes music therapy as the clinical use of music by an accredited music therapist to promote, maintain, and…
Sylvester Akapalara, 17, Hanzel Saucedo, 18, Genaro Ramirez, 19, Alexander Ibarra, 17, Aljoven Canalete, 19, and Ebony Huel, 16 were all found murdered in gun-related…
In the 1970s, Pat Ogden began paying attention to the connection between her clients’ dissociations from their bodies and their psychological concerns. With the development…
The 2004 tsunami that swept through Sri Lanka, destroying everything in its path and killing over 200,000 people, took its place as one of the…
Counselling is crucial for the treatment of mental illness. However, many people lack the income to afford it. So where do people turn when they…
For most of us, walking by a homeless person who is curled up on a tattered blanket, asking for spare change seems like a common…