Honest Talk About Racial Injustice: Amanda Giordano speaks with Markus Lloyd and Antwuan Malone
Mindfulness Activity #83
Increasing your Sense of Agency Good Morning. The topic of today’s mindfulness blast is agency. Agency refers to the degree to which an individual has the ability to freely make choices and to engage in actions in their life consistent with their choices. We often say to children, “was that a good choice or a […]
Presenting an Online Workshop – Tips for Engaging your Audience: Part 2 – Ice Breakers
Presenting a workshop to an online audience is not without its challenges. Primary among these is the inability of the presenter to gauge the audience’s reaction or to use any of the non-verbal (read: eyerolls, nods, smiles, confused looks, etc.) or verbal cues (laughter at your jokes 😉 ) that are typically available when presenting in-person. […]
Mindfulness Activity #82
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger (Buddha) Good Morning. Today’s mindfulness practice is focused on anger. Many people are feeling a lot of anger these days. Anger is justified. It makes sense. Nevertheless, we might need to address anger in order to keep it from damaging […]
Crazy, Dangerous, or Intoxicated? How Police Assess for Mental Illness
Improved education, communication, and training are needed for police officers to effectively and safely assess for mental illness while on duty. This is the bottom line of a 2018 published article in Victims & Offenders. Below is a summary of the research and findings as well as a translation of this research into practice. Featured […]
Presenting an Online Workshop – Tips for Engaging your Audience: Part 1 – Visual Representations
Presenting a workshop to an online audience is not without its challenges. Primary among these is the inability of the presenter to gauge the audience’s reaction or to use any of the non-verbal (read: eye-rolls, nods, smiles, confused looks, etc.) or verbal cues (laughter at your jokes 😉 ) that are typically available when presenting […]
Mindfulness Activity #81
Community-Engaged Mindfulness Good Morning. I started sending out these mindfulness practices in order to help individuals cope with the stresses associated with the Novel Corona Virus. Many of the people in our practice circle had already been using mindfulness as a way to help them to recover from trauma that contributed to their hospitalization or […]
Mindfulness Activity #80
Restore and Reset Good Morning. Welcome to your weekend. Weekends are generally a time to restore, reflect, and reset. Resting provides the strength and energy needed to move forward. It has been a tumultuous week. For most people, the week brought many feelings and many thoughts. For today’s practice, we give the brain a rest […]
Pushing the Ball Forward, Faster: Using the COVID-19 Pandemic to Expand Forensic Telehealth
There is no doubt that the world has changed for everyone over the last few months. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruption in almost every aspect of life and has forced most individuals and organizations, including threat assessment professionals, to shift, change, or adapt operations quickly to maintain service provision. Threat assessment professionals may […]
The Impact of Brain Injury on Behavior Remains Convoluted: Traumatic Brain Injury and Threat/Override Control
This study examined whether self-reported traumatic brain injury (TBI) was associated with psychosis and/or the development of threat/control-override (TCO) symptoms in a sample of delinquent juveniles and early adults. The results reflect that there was an association between TBI and psychotic symptoms; however, TBI was not significantly associated with TCO. Nevertheless, paranoid ideation and psychoticism […]
Mindfulness Activity #79
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking” Good Morning. Recently, I have been getting advice on how to begin running from my brother, an elite athlete who has finished both Ironman and Ultraman Triathalons. I was telling him that when I try to run, I […]
Mindfulness Activity #78
Perseverance Good Morning. It is a bedrock principle of Zen that change is not possible without acceptance. One must radically accept that a problem exists and fully accept the magnitude of a problem, its consequences, and our feelings and thoughts about a problem in order to move towards fruitful action. We all have a problem […]