Category: Mental Health
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Healing Veterans Through the Arts
Written by Jason Moon // Home. It was all I could think about in the war zone. I had put my life on hold to serve in Iraq and now after my deployment I could get back to living it. Almost immediately after returning, I started to have severe symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder…
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School Counselors: Making Mental Health Care Accessible to Youth
Written by Orlando Dobbin // “You had a parent who died too!?” said Jasmine* in the grief support group I facilitated during my school counseling internship last spring for three kindergarteners and two first graders. Jasmine was having a really tough Kindergarten year. She was constantly in trouble, starting to fall behind academically, and struggling in…
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Seeing People: The Cry of Justice Screams “Worthy”
Written by Camilla Friend // Under the beautiful mask of majestic mountains and quaint buildings lies the fragile and broken heart of the town of Stellenbosch. With one of the highest Gini coefficients (a statistical measurement of inequality) in South Africa, where the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor live in close…