'Publications' Category
Overcoming stigma
Poster presentation at consumer day TheMHS conference To view poster click here Dealing with Stigma – Poster Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on LinkedinShare with StumblersTweet about itTell a friend
Consider the underlying trauma
The high prevalence of childhood abuse in the community drives me to use this presentation to demonstrate how crucial it is when assessing a patient/client presenting with depression/anxiety symptoms and/or suicidal ideation/self harming behaviours including substance abuse, eating disorders to approach the presentation from a Trauma Informed perspective by considering the possibility of undisclosed or unaddressed childhood trauma. Given that childhood abuse can underpin these conditions and in fact be their root cause, remaining aware to the possibility can be crucial to long-term outcomes. In cases in which childhood trauma is a feature of a client’s history, guiding the client in how best to acknowledge, understand, process and integrate the impact of their childhood trauma can be a necessary part of dealing with the depression, anxiety and/or suicidal behaviours
Child abuse a pervasive problem
Posted on online opinion 15th July 2009 – Read this article on Online Opinion Author – Dr. Cathy Kezelman, chairperson ASCA (Adults Surviving Child Abuse) The Productivity Commission’s report Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage released on July 2 and commented on by Minister Macklin reveals the parlous rates of child abuse and neglect of Indigenous children. The [...]
Human Rights Advocacy
In 2009 Cathy, in her ASCA role co-authored a submission to the Human Rights Consultation together with Dr. Jennifer Wilson, Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University. ASCA’s submission sought to have child abuse and child sexual abuse perpetrated by non state actors, acknowledged and named as abuses of the fundamental human rights [...]
Presentation to parliamentary briefing session Feb 2009
This paper was presented to a parliamentary briefing session Feb 2009: “Just imagine a plague that’s not immediately fatal. It attacks in childhood and lurks in the bodies and minds of its victims into adulthood and old age. It makes its victims up to sixteen times more likely to experience debilitating mental illnesses such as [...]