Japan Child Abuse

And the number is growing. Recent amendments to the Child Abuse Prevention Law that expanded the definition of child abuse and neglect, as well as an increasing public awareness of these issues, have resulted in an influx of children into institutional care. Between 2000 and 2007 the number of children in state homes increased by 6.7 percent and the number of facilities grew 2.2 percent, according to the latest government figures. In some homes, 75 percent of the children Living Dreams personnel encounter have been abused.

Dreams for life, not just for Christmas | The Japan Times Online

Psychiatry Japan

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is used in the United States and in varying degrees around the world, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and policy makers. The DSM has attracted controversy and criticism as well as praise. There have been five revisions since it was first published in 1952, gradually including more mental disorders, although some have been removed and are no longer considered to be mental disorders, most notably homosexuality.

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A Warning Sign on the Road to DSM-V: Beware of Its Unintended Consequences - Psychiatric Times

Japanese Psychology

Well Planted in Fertile Ground: An Introduction to Japanese Psychotherapy by Andrew Grimes

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


"Well Planted in Fertile Soil: An Introduction to Japanese Psychotherapy"
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The Practice of Psychotherapy in Japan: an investigation into all psychotherapies currently being practiced in Japan, the ways and approaches of psychotherapies in Japan, where psychotherapists practice in Japan and how they utilize psychotherapeutic systems to serve the needs and wishes of their clients and patients. With an emphasis on identifying the full range of systems of psychotherapy being used within Japanese society in the treatment of emotional and psychosomatic problems and also in the treatment of problems caused by crisis in life.

Extract: The current of psychotherapy in Japan has long been naturally moving towards all current psychotherapies being used in a form of integrated psychotherapy. The teachings of all the most leading and influential teachers of the predominate schools of psychotherapy at least since the end of the war in the Pacific have favoured an acceptance and respect for all other major systems of psychotherapy. The answers and comments provided by all respondents surveyed as part of this research on the use of all of the major methods of psychotherapy currently utilized to nurture the well being of clients and patients of all kinds overwhelming show that they vary and tailor their approach for each and every one of them. So very few practicing psychotherapists here insist on just one approach. Therefore it is a very personal and consensually concordant current that has resulted in integrative psychotherapy becoming popular in Japan too.

The very nature of Japanese culture with its Buddhist roots still deeply influencing the ways that all people here relate to one another here is integrative in nature and schools of psychotherapy too have been adopted, adapted and encouraged to grow and advance in a spirit of harmony and cooperation between professionals and clients and patients always with a respect of the intrinsic inter-relationship of human interaction being at the heart of things."

© 2010 Andrew Grimes JSCCP, JCP - Author - Not for quotation or citation without the express permission of the author.



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自殺：千葉の中２男子が首つり　アンケにいじめ受けている - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)

自殺：千葉の中２男子が首つり　アンケにいじめ受けている

　千葉県市川市の市立中学２年の男子生徒（１４）が自宅で１４日に首つり自殺をしていたことが分かった。１日に学校が実施したアンケートでいじめを受けていると回答、担任教諭には「いじめる生徒」の名前を伝え、学校側は対応を検討中だった。遺書は見つかっていないが、市教育委員会はいじめを苦に自殺した可能性もあるとみて調査している。

Suicide Japan Japan Times

Suicide Japan The Japan Times

Until that year, Japan had between 22,000 and 24,000 suicides a year. In 1998 the rate increased by around 35 percent, and since 1998 the number of people killing themselves each year in Japan has consistently remained over 30,000. The current worldwide recession is, of course, impacting Japan, so unless the new administration initiates very proactive and well funded local and nationwide suicide prevention programs and other mental health care initiatives, including tackling the widespread problem of clinical depression suffered by so many of the general population, it is very difficult to foresee the previous government's stated target to reduce the suicide rate to around 23,000 by 2016 as being achievable. On the contrary, the suffering that people who become part of these numbers have to endure may well stay at current levels.

Bringing down the suicide rate | The Japan Times Online

Suicide Japan The Japan Times

Japan's Suicide Epidemic

From CNN Japan's Suicide Epidemic

An average of 30,000 Japanese people take their own lives every year. Today, News Stream examines the role the internet is playing in this challenging national issue.

News Stream: Blog Archive - Japan's Suicide Epidemic « - CNN.com Blogsjavascript:void(0)

Japan anti-child abuse campaign

Japan gov't mounts anti-child abuse campaign

The building of the Japanese welfare ministry is lit up to resemble an orange ribbon, a symbol of campaign against child abuse, in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki area Nov. 19, 2010. (Kyodo)


Japan gov't mounts anti-child abuse campaign | Photos | Kyodo News