Category: MENTAL HEALTH
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Find Speaker for Resilience, Suicide Prevention and Self Harm
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Isolation and shame are at an all time high. The challenges of mental illness and everyday life can be overwhelming for people you care about. David Dicken, of Make Someone Great Today, is a crisis counselor, and he’s now available as a speaker and presenter to address life’s challenges. This promotional video explains what David…
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Chinese American Mental Health Seminar Videos
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Very valuable resources are now available online: culturally-relevant informative videos about mental health in Chinese and Asian American communities. Watch the videos in this YouTube playlist from the 2018 Enlighten Mental Health Seminar. Enlighten seminar notes and video titles are posted at english.cccto.org/mental-health/videos-handouts 2018 Enlighten Seminar – Session Titles The Ministry of Presence to Broken People…
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Enlighten, a Mental Health Seminar in a Chinese Church
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Update: Please see the Enlighten website for the latest information, at enlightenmentalhealth.org/seminar Also watch videos from the 2018 Enlighten mental health seminar (info below kept online for historical reason)
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What do you want to learn about mental health?
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Save the date, Saturday, October 20, 2018, for a mental health seminar in Thousand Oaks, California. I’m planning to be there; let’s meetup.
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Can we talk about suicide and mental illness now?
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How many more celebrities have to die tragically, before we can talk about these hard topics of life and death? Death is one of those topics that most people don’t want to talk about; there are many reasons for that. But death is a certainty; we are all human and mortal. Closely related to that,…
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If Asian Americans struggle with Mental Health in May 2018
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The month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. And these two things intersect, or shall we say, collide, for those who are Asian Americans and struggle with mental illness. Let’s do the math. The Asian American population is estimated at 21.4 million (as of 2016, cf. Census Bureau’s…
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Can we talk about shame?
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Yes, we have launched a podcast called Erasing Shame where we will have honest talk for healthy living—emotionally, relationally, mentally, and personally. DJ Chuang and Eunice Lee will co-host Season 1 together. I’m particular grateful for Eunice making time to do this podcast together, because the topic of shame is so big, what resources we…
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Towards Erasing the Shame of Mental Illness
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Quite the honor and privilege to be here at the inaugural Honor Shame Conference 2017 at Wheaton College, near Chicago. This is very pioneering work to bring out other facets and perspectives embedded in Scriptures that are brought out through the lens of honor-shame cultures. Powerful presentation so far by Jayson Georges (of HonorShame.com), Steve…
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Towards Erasing the Shame of Mental Illness
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Preparing for a conference workshop is typically done at a desk with a stack of books researched next to you, or behind you if you’re in the library or have a voluminous library of your own. In my case, it so happens, I’m getting the bonus of doing workshop preparations in a front row seat…
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Counseling for Asian American Pastors and Missionaries
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Recently got word of this most valuable resource that provides great help for Asian American pastors, missionaries, and their families to receive mental and emotional health care through biblical Christian counseling. Excerpt of the announcement: Announcement: Ministry Counseling Subsidy for Pastors and Missionaries We have great news! Asian American Christian Counseling Service (AACCS) was awarded…
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Will churches help to erase shame about mental illnesses?
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Excerpt from “Can Churches Separate Mental Illness and Shame? Rick Warren confronts one more “last taboo.”” – cover story in Christianity Today by Christine A. Scheller (3/31/14):: “In some Asian populations, we know there are not even words for therapy or suicide,” said Kristee Haggins, senior associate at the California Institute for Mental Health and…
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Hard to Find Christian Support for Bipolar Disorder and Mental Illnesses
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Yes there is hope and help for people that struggle with mental illness, but it is not easy to get help when there is so much social stigma about someone needing psychiatric help. Plus, even if stigma weren’t in the way, there isn’t enough professionals and resources to meet the overwhelming need–approximately 61.5 million (1…