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Forde Foundation Web Site
Congratulations to HAN member Eric Heathm who designed this useful site for former residents.
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Contributor: Web Editor
Author: Forde Foundation
Posted: 29-5-2008
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'Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church'
<a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott">Matt C. Abbott</a>
November 9, 2007
Leon J. Podles, Ph.D., author and a senior editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, has granted me permission to print a significant portion of the Introduction of his new book <a href="http://www.crosslandfoundation.org/sacrilege.htm">Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church.</a>
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: Renew America Web
Posted: 20-1-2008
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Institutional Child Abuse
Institutional Child Abuse
This paper was prepared for the Law Commission of Canada under the title Apologising for Serious Wrongdoing: Social, Psychological and Legal Considerations. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission. The accuracy of the information contained in the paper is the sole responsibility of the author.
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: Susan Alter
Posted: 31-10-2007
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The Impact of Child Sexual Abuse in Females on Adult Sexual and Relationship Functioning: The Pathways of Risk and Resilience Project
June 2004
School of Applied Psychology
Griffith University
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: Bronwyn Louise Watson
Posted: 11-10-2007
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Mental Health Association Qld
The Mental Health Association (Qld) Inc. envisages communities in which all people are provided with opportunities to optimise their mental health and participate as valued members of society.
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: MHA
Posted: 9-10-2007
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The Justice Project
An Investigation Into What Happened In Queensland's
Orphanages And Children's Institutions
An internet initiative of the staff and students of the School of Journalism and Communication, The University of Queensland
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: The Justice Project
Posted: 25-7-2007
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Child abuse and the church Bibliography
The National Child Protection Clearinghouse is being evaluated. Have your say! Fill in the evaluation online survey.
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: National Child Protection Clearinghouse, Australian Institute of Family Studies
Posted: 23-4-2007
Folder: Reports and Papers
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Long-term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
Child sexual abuse is widely regarded as a cause of mental health problems in adult life. This article examines the impact of child sexual abuse on social, sexual and interpersonal functioning, and its potential role in mediating the more widely recognised impacts on mental health. In discussing the relationship between child sexual abuse and adult psychopathology, the authors evaluate a number of models, including the post-traumatic stress disorder model, the traumatogenic model, and developmental and social models. They look at family risk factors which predispose children from specific population groups to be at greater risk of abuse, and conclude that the fundamental damage caused by child sexual abuse impacts on the child's developing capacities for trust, intimacy, agency and sexuality.
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: Paul E Mullen and Jillian Fleming
Posted: 23-4-2007
Folder: Reports and Papers
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When Its To Hard to cry
Amanda was raped at the age of 14. For more than 15 years she largely suppressed the pain of that experience not even telling her immediate family and largely blotted the memories out of her day-to-day life through immersion in her work on television and in the music industry. She even married and became a mother to her own children.
Fifteen years later at the approximate age of 29 a sequence of unrelated events to that rape suddenly unleashed a living hell in her physical and mental being. The trigger for these events was the death in quick succession of her father, her own daughter, and the sister closest in age to her. Not only did she suffer a complete mental breakdown but her physical body suddenly erupted in trauma that necessitated extensive surgery over a ten year period. Her mental recovery took at least the same time.
Two of the symptoms of her condition was that she could not cry and she had lost almost all feeling of things like hot and cold or the sensations of taste, smell and touch. She wrote this song during her time in St John of God Hospital in collaboration with another young patient who was dealing with a diagnosis of being HIV positive. It was the outworking involved in writing this song that eventually led to Amanda being able to cry again — and experience many of those other sensations of taste, smell and touch we all tend to take so much for granted.
During her rehabilitation at St John of God Hospital the doctors used to get Amanda to sing this song for other patients as they found it helped them reclaim their feelings and emotions as it had done for Amanda.
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: Catholica Australia
Posted: 24-8-2006
Folder: Poems
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Suing the Church
In working to protect the future of the Catholic community, we always need to remember that innocent people and innocent families were hurt in the past by some members of the clergy who did terrible things. Some victims have recovered and moved on. For others, the wounds never heal. All of their lives are precious in the eyes of Jesus Christ, and therefore also in the eyes of Christ’s followers. Helping them, supporting them, praying for them, and seeking to understand their suffering—while also defending the Church—cannot be mutually exclusive, since all these things serve the truth. Caring for the victims of abuse and assisting them sacrificially is a good and urgent thing. So is fighting bad laws. We need to focus earnestly on both
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: First Things American Catholic Journal
Posted: 7-6-2006
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