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TV News Report: Dr. Marti Erickson Discusses the Connecticut School Shooting

Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network: Coping With Violence and National Tragedy

American Psychological Association: Reacting to the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

American Academy of Pediatrics: Talking to Children About Disasters

from New development in family policy

SB-1172 Sexual orientation change efforts

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Home Front: Post-Deployment Mental Health and Divorces

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Child Welfare Information Gateway
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Selecting and working with a therapist skilled in adoption

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Lisa Jaynes Johnson, Ph.D., LMFT, and Margaret V. (Peggy) Moore, LISW
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Keeping couples together to manage emotional reactivity: Combining Relationship Enhancement for couples with EMDR

by Lisa Jaynes Johnson, Ph.D., LMFT, and Margaret V. (Peggy) Moore, LISW

When couples come to therapy, they may bring individual trauma from their pasts as well as trauma that emerged in the relationship. When trauma is present, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) may be useful to help the couple process the traumas that plague the relationship as well as to help improve the communication between them.

Bill Doherty
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Bill Doherty and the "Couples on the Brink" project

Former NCFR president, professor, and Marriage and Family Therapist Bill Doherty discusses the creation of the Couples on the Brink Project in Minnesota, which offers a new type of counseling to married couples considering divorce.

Becci Manson: (Re)touching lives through photos
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Becci Manson: (Re)touching lives through photos

In the wake of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, mixed into the wreckage were lost and damaged photos of families and loved ones. Photo retoucher Becci Manson, together with local volunteers and a global group of colleagues she recruited online, helped clean and fix them, restoring those memories to their owners.