Mental Health of Children in Military Families ? The World of Mentalists

[Guest post by Paul Watson]

Coming from a military background and having been both a forces child and served I have been able empathise with forces families around the issue of a deployed family member. I have also been fortunate to link in with other military families via Twitter and Facebook who share my feelings that we need a Military Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. I have spoken to one mother today who says this service for their children is way over due. Like military personnel, the children and young people of a deployed parent/ family member are unique and in my opinion and that of this mother, we need a service that understands what it is like to be ?in the forces?.

I have emailed around 20 Military service leaders to ascertain whether there is a service out there specifically for children of deployed parents. To date the replies that I have received state that currently this service does not exist. However, the NHS CAMHS team in Durham and Northumberland are starting to offer training to their current team in the attitudes and customs of military life.?I have also?received an email from the MOD stating that there is not a MCAMHS in the UK however there is in Germany and Cyprus. Furthermore there are no charities that I have found that support this issue, to date.

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I think however, like many of the veterans services that are starting to?mobilise throughout the country via the NHS and public sector, we need people who have been in the ?shoes? of those we serve, this I would suggest to be empathised individual person centred care. The forces community is a unique family and having lived and served, I along with others feel no one on the ?outside? understands what it is like to be in the military family, which is further echoed by those serving. Therefore I would champion that we need to establish groups to work alongside the likes of the NHS and Young Minds to support military children and their families not only when a parent dies but also whilst they are on deployment. It is this gap that I heartedly believe needs filling, a supporting interventions group to aid resilience and keep the minds of our military children and young people healthy.?

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Having read some of the literature around this issue, I would conclude that this service is very important with regards early intervention,?resilience?and attachment. The reason I say this is that some of the research from the United States suggest that boys present with anxiety and depression and have raised external behavioural problems both at home and at school. This may be due to them having to step into the paternal role, hence taking on more responsibility and having a differing set of boundaries, only to have these reduce once the deployed parent returns.

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In relation to girls, the research suggests that they too present with anxiety and depression, however they internalise these feelings and may self harm as well have behavioural problems. This is suggested to be due to the father-daughter attachment bond, living in fear of what may happen to their parent whilst they are away and what their parent may return with.

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To this end I have set up, although not active yet a service that I would hope to reach out to this unique set of children and young people. Via social media I want to be able to enable children and young people to talk to each other, share feelings, emotions and ideas on how to maintain good mental health. Once this service has regular young people I would introduce chat events, again to share with each other and develop education and debate around some of the issues raised by the site users.

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I would be grateful if you could take the time to look at the Children & Young People of Defence Personnel web site.

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Paul Watson is a third year student mental health nurse.

About Zarathustra

Trained as a nurse, currently working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Co-editing the Not So Big Society blog. All views expressed are in a personal capacity and not necessarily the views of my employer.

Source: http://theworldofmentalists.com/2013/01/03/mental-health-of-children-in-military-families/

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Professor Good Ales ? Post Topic ? Home Brews and Latin Flavors

Mac Rusling turned his 40-year hobby of brewing beer from home into a career when he opened Brewhaha Homebrew Supply Company in December. Photo by Jacob Fuller.

PGA Note: this is about a homebrew store in a state where homebrewing is illegal. In neighboring Alabama, where it is also illegal the police came in like a pot raid, confiscated everything: charges pending after the raid.

Written by Jack Fuller for jacksonfreepress.com

Mississippi home brewers may not have the law fully on their side, but they now have a place to buy all the hops, barley, yeast and equipment they need to create and bottle their own beer.

Mac Rusling, a former commercial airline pilot, opened Brewhaha Homebrew Supply Company, a one-stop shop for all things home brewing, Dec. 19 in the Lefleur?s Gallery Shopping Center (4800 I-55 N., Suite 17A, 601-362-0201, brewhahasupply.com).

Brewhaha is a no-frills kind of place. The beige walls to the left and right of the entrance are lined with 8-foot high shelves stocked with ingredients, recipe books and equipment. On the back wall sit two refrigerators filled with ?more ingredients.

Rusling has been brewing beer in his home since 1973, an action that?s not exactly legal under Mississippi law. To legally brew beer in the state, a person has to have a $1,000 permit from the Mississippi Department of Revenue. The law, however, doesn?t allow such permits for home brewers. That leaves home brewers facing possible fines ?if caught.

The legality of home brewing is a gray area, Rusling said. He is a board member of Raise Your Pints, a grassroots, non-profit organization that successfully lobbied the state to raise the alcohol limits for beer in 2012 from 5 percent by weight to 8 percent, or 10 percent by volume.

In 2013, Raise Your Pints focus will shift to getting a law allowing home brewing on the books.

?There?s just no clear definition of what?s gong on,? Rusling told the Jackson Free Press. ?It needs to be cleared up.?

Despite the murky legal water Brewhaha may be treading, Rusling said he has been pleased with business in the store?s first week. He wasn?t surprised. He spent a year and half working on a business plan for the store because he believed the demand for it already existed in the area.

The demand comes largely from people who want to know where the ingredients in their food and drink come from. Though none of the ingredients he sells come from local growers, brewers can buy the specific ingredients they want and know where they came from. They?ll know exactly what goes into the process of making their beer.

While home-brew enthusiasts have made up much of Brewhaha?s early business, the store is not just for experts. The store sells kits that include everything a first-time brewer will need right up to the moment the beer is bottled.

For beginners, Rusling suggests starting with ale. Lagers are more difficult because they require the beer to remain between 45 and 52 degrees during fermentation, he said, depending on the brew. Too warm, and the beer will develop less-than-desirable tastes, and the yeast can even die; too cold, and the beer ?won?t ferment.

Ale, on the other hand, can ferment in a warmer environment and allows for more fluctuation ?in temperature.

Brewhaha is more than a make-your-own-beer store. It also offers everything customers need to make their own cheeses and even grow ?oyster mushrooms.

?It?s easy, and it?s a lot of fun,? Rusling said. ?You can literally make any kind of cheese you want, if you?ve got the patience to do it.?

Taste of the Caribbean

Source: http://professorgoodales.net/archives/9534

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Slideshow: White House releases 'The Year in Photographs'

Actors Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana have split up for a second time, apparently. Page Six says that the pair, who broke up last March only to get back together this fall, were supposed to spend New Year's Eve in Paris with Cooper's family, but Cooper ended up going it alone, while Saldana spent her evening in Miami with friends. Supposedly the couple couldn't make it work because of their busy schedules, with Cooper doing awards-blitz stuff for Silver Linings Playbook, and shooting a commercial of some sort in Prague, and Saldana doing Star Trek and a movie with Mila Kunis. ...

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/best-of-2012-white-house-photos-slideshow/

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Myanmar military admits airstrikes against Kachin

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) ? Myanmar's military acknowledged launching airstrikes against ethnic Kachin rebels in the north and said it captured a hilltop post from where the insurgents had attacked government supply convoys.

The statement broadcast on state television Wednesday contradicted government claims two days earlier that the military was not carrying out offensive air attacks on the Kachin, raising questions about how much control the elected government of reformist President Thein Sein has over the army.

The United States said Wednesday the use of air power in Kachin state was "extremely troubling." In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland urged the government and the Kachin rebel group to cease their conflict and begin a real dialogue for peace.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Myanmar's authorities "to desist from any action that could endanger the lives of civilians living in the area or further intensify the conflict in the region," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said. Ban called on the government and rebels to work toward political reconciliation.

Myanmar state television, quoting the Defense Ministry, said the military on Sunday occupied a Kachin Independence Army hilltop post during a mopping-up operation of the area where attacks had been launched against supply convoys.

The government has been seeking to supply a base at Lajayang very close to KIA headquarters at Laiza, the rebel group's last major outpost.

The government delivered an ultimatum to the Kachin to clear a road by Christmas Day so it could supply its base. The Kachin rejected the ultimatum for fear of a government attack on their own outpost.

KIA spokesman La Nan charged Monday that the supplies being sent to government troops included ammunition as well as rice.

"We will obstruct any army convoy that carries arms and ammunition that will be used against us," he said. "This is the nature of war."

Each side blames the other for intensified fighting that began a little over a week ago.

The Kachin said Monday they were being attacked by helicopter gunships and fighter jets, but President's Office director Maj. Zaw Htay said the aircraft were being used mainly to supply government units whose access to supplies by road had been cut off by the Kachin guerrillas.

"During the attack, the army used air support," Wednesday's report said. It added that the military did not want to launch an offensive but attacked the outpost to maintain security and stability.

The report said government troops seized weapons including mortars, hand grenades, mines and 4,000 rounds of ammunition.

The military announcement highlights a seeming disconnect between the government and the military, which retains much power behind the scenes. An order late last year by Thein Sein to halt offensive operations against the Kachin was not honored in practice.

The Kachin, like Myanmar's other ethnic minorities, have long sought greater autonomy from the central government. They are the only major ethnic rebel group that has not reached a cease-fire agreement with Thein Sein's government, which came to power in 2011 after almost five decades of military rule.

His government has been hailed for instituting democratic reforms.

But tension with ethnic minorities, evidenced by the fighting with the Kachin, is considered a major long-term problem for the government and a threat to the nascent democracy.

Fighting erupted in Kachin state in June 2011 after the KIA refused to abandon a strategic base near a hydropower plant that is a joint venture with a Chinese company. There have been off-and-on skirmishes between the KIA and government troops, often escalating into serious bombardment by government troops.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2013-01-02-Myanmar-Ethnic%20Rebels/id-ea65f7235a0f470889fca9cac5db9962

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Ex-directors of Satyam win ruling in U.S. class-action suit

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge dismissed claims against seven former directors of Satyam Computer Services Ltd in shareholder lawsuits stemming from the massive fraud at the heart of India's largest corporate scandal.

U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones in New York ruled on Wednesday the lawsuits failed to allege that the ex-directors recklessly failed to discover the fraud, which came to be known as "India's Enron."

The lawsuits center on the revelation by Satyam's founder and former chairman, Ramalinga Raju, that what had been India's fourth-largest outsourcing firm had for several years inflated its revenue, income and cash balances by more than $1 billion.

In her decision Wednesday, Jones said the allegations primarily focused on the actions of a small group of insiders, reinforcing an inference the audit committee's members "were themselves victims of the fraud."

Lawyers for the directors welcomed the decision.

"It was truly unfortunate that these directors, diligent individuals of the highest integrity, were ever named as defendants," said Irwin Warren, a lawyer for five of the seven directors involved in the case.

Gordon Atkinson, a lawyer for former board member Vinod Dham, in an email said the decision would hopefully help vindicate his client and the other outside directors, "who were themselves victims of the Satyam fraud, not perpetrators or otherwise responsible for it."

Lawyers for the plaintiffs did not respond to requests for comment.

Satyam shareholders began filing lawsuits in 2009 after the scandal broke.

In 2011 Satyam, now called Mahindra Satyam Ltd, and its auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, agreed to pay $125 million and $25.5 million, respectively, to settle claims filed by shareholders.

That same year, Satyam and PwC agreed to pay a combined $17.5 million to settle claims made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The 2011 settlements did not include Satyam's former directors, who continued to litigate the case that ultimately ended in Wednesday's ruling.

In her ruling, Jones also said the investors could not file claims arising from stock purchases made on the National Stock Exchange of India, citing a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case restricting investor claims in U.S. courts involving stocks bought on overseas exchanges.

Investors had also filed claims involving Satyam American depositary shares, which were not impacted by the Supreme Court ruling.

The lead plaintiffs include Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi, Mineworkers' Pension Scheme, SKAGEN AS and Sampension KP Livsforsikring A/S.

Jones also dismissed claims brought by a former Satyam employee on behalf of employees who exercised stock options. The judge also voided claims on jurisdictional grounds against two companies owned by the Raju family - Maytas Infra Ltd. and Maytas Properties.

Adam Finkel, a lawyer for Maytas Properties, in an email said his clients were pleased with the decision.

The case is In re Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Securities Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 09-2027.

(Reporting By Nate Raymond in New York; Editing by Matt Driskill)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-directors-satyam-win-ruling-u-class-action-030510970--sector.html

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U.N. lifts Syria death toll to "truly shocking" 60,000

AMMAN/GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 60,000 people have died in Syria's uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.

In the latest violence, dozens were killed in a rebellious Damascus suburb when a government air strike turned a petrol station into an inferno, incinerating drivers who had rushed there for a rare chance to fill their tanks, activists said.

"I counted at least 30 bodies. They were either burnt or dismembered," said Abu Saeed, an activist who arrived in the area an hour after the 1 p.m. (1100 GMT) raid in Muleiha, a suburb on the eastern edge of the capital.

In the north, rebels launched a major attack to take a military airport, and said they had succeeded in destroying a fighter plane and a helicopter on the ground.

U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said in Geneva that researchers cross-referencing seven sources over five months of analysis had listed 59,648 people killed in Syria between March 15, 2011 and November 30, 2012.

"The number of casualties is much higher than we expected and is truly shocking," she said. "Given that there has been no let-up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013."

There was no breakdown by ethnicity or information about whether the dead were rebels, soldiers or civilians. There was also no estimate of an upper limit of the possible toll.

Previously, the opposition-linked Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group had put the toll at around 45,000 confirmed dead but said the real number was likely to be higher.

FATAL RUSH FOR PETROL

Video footage taken by activists at the scene of the air strike on the petrol station showed the body of a man in a helmet still perched on a motorcycle amid flames engulfing the scene. Another man was shown carrying a dismembered body.

The video could not be verified. The government bars access to the Damascus area to most international media.

The activists said rockets were fired from a nearby government air base at the petrol station and a residential area after the air raid.

"Until the raid, Muleiha was quiet. We have been without petrol for four days and people from the town and the countryside rushed to the station when a state consignment came in," Abu Fouad, another activist at the scene, said by phone.

President Bashar al-Assad's forces also fired artillery and mortars at the capital's rebellious districts of Douma, Irbin and Zamlaka, activists living there said.

After nightfall there was shelling in the Jobar and Assali districts, and fighting occurred in the northern suburb of Harasta, on the highway leading north, Syria's main artery.

Assad's forces control the centre of the capital, while rebels and their sympathizers hold a ring of southern and eastern suburbs that are often hit from the air.

The Observatory said a separate air strike killed 12 members of a family, most of them children, in Moadamiyeh, a southwestern district near the centre of Damascus where rebels have fought for a foothold.

The rebels hold wide swathes of the north and east of the country, but have been unable to protect the areas they control from Assad's air power. Their main targets in recent months have been air bases, with a goal of preventing the government from using its jets and helicopters.

The rebels launched a major attack on Wednesday on Taftanaz, a northern air base which they hope to seize. A statement by the northern rebel Idlib Coordination Committee said they had battled their way to the airport's main command building but were not yet in control of the site.

The statement said the rebels had detonated a car bomb inside the Taftanaz airport grounds and destroyed a helicopter.

A rebel speaking from near the airport told Reuters the base's main sections were still in loyalist hands but rebels had destroyed a fighter jet as well as the helicopter.

The family of an American freelance journalist, James Foley, 39, said on Wednesday he had been missing in Syria since being kidnapped six weeks ago by gunmen. No group has publicly claimed responsibility for his abduction.

Syria was by far the most dangerous country for journalists in 2012, with 28 killed there.

The conflict began in March 2011 with peaceful protests against four decades of Assad family rule and turned into an armed revolt after months of government repression.

"FOR GOD'S EYES"

Both sides have been accused of committing atrocities in the 21-month-old conflict, but the United Nations says the government and its allies have been more culpable.

In the latest evidence of atrocities, Internet video posted by Syrian rebels shows armed men, apparently fighters loyal to Assad, stabbing two men to death and stoning them with concrete blocks in a summary execution lasting several minutes.

Reuters could not verify the provenance of the footage or the identity of the perpetrators and their victims. The video was posted on Tuesday but it was not clear where or when it was filmed. However it does clearly show a summary execution and torture, apparently being carried out by government supporters.

At one point, one of the assailants says: "For God's eyes and your Lord, O Bashar," an Arabic incantation suggesting actions being carried out in the leader's name.

The video was posted on YouTube by the media office of the Damascus-based rebel First Brigade, which said it had been taken from a captured member of the shabbiha pro-government militia.

The perpetrators show off for the camera, smiling for close-up shots, slicing at the victims' backs, then stabbing them and bashing them with large slabs of masonry.

Syria's civil war is the longest and deadliest conflict to emerge from uprisings that began sweeping the Arab world in 2011 and has developed a significant sectarian element.

Rebels, mostly from the Sunni Muslim majority, confront Assad's army and security forces, dominated by his Shi'ite-derived Alawite sect, which, along with some other minorities, fears revenge if he falls.

(Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes in Beirut; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Michael Roddy)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-rebels-attack-military-airport-northwest-101534845.html

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Northgate Country Club Shows Support for Troops and Families with Folds of Honor Outing

Participants of Northgate Country Club?s 4th Annual Scott A. McIntosch Memorial Golf Tournament rally together to support a cause that is near and dear to the hearts of many American families.

Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 02, 2013

Participants of Northgate Country Club?s 4th Annual Scott A. McIntosch Memorial Golf Tournament rallied together once again this year to support a cause that is near and dear to the hearts of many American families. All proceeds of this annual tournament, honoring the memory of fallen soldier, Corporal Scott A. McIntosch, who died serving his country in Baghdad, Iraq in 2008, benefit the Folds of Honor Foundation.

The Folds of Honor Foundation was founded in 2007 by Major Dan Rooney, a former F-16 pilot, golf course owner, PGA Professional and USGA member. The purpose of the Folds of Honor Foundation is to ensure no family is left behind in the fight to preserve American freedom. Through scholarships and other assistance, the organization gives back to the spouses and children of soldiers killed or disabled while serving their country. To date, Folds of Honor has presented over 2,600 scholarships to the families of fallen heroes to aid in offsetting the rising cost of post-secondary education.

This year?s event at Northgate Country Club raised nearly $350,000 for the families served by the Folds of Honor Foundation. In addition to many members and guests, Northgate was honored to host several Folds of Honor Scholarship recipients, Veterans and their families, and Sergeant Dakota L. Meyer. Sergeant Meyer is the third living recipient of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, and the first living U.S. Marine in 38 years to be so honored. Sergeant Meyer and other members of the armed forces, past and present, spoke of the importance of the mission of Folds of Honor.

In the weeks following the outing at Northgate, donations from supporters who could not attend continue to roll in. For information on the Folds of Honor Foundation, visit the website at http://www.foldsofhonor.org, where you can donate, or learn more about supporting a worthy cause.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/northgate-country-club-shows-support-troops-families-folds-153218805.html

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