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Mental Health Checkup

Parents love, nourish, protect, and support their children, yet when faced with a possible diagnosis of mental illness, many slip into denial. The National Alliance on Mental Health reports four million children and adolescents in this country suffer from a serious mental disorder and children ages 9-17, twenty-one percent have a diagnosable mental or addictive …

Impulsive Shopping

Online, catalogue, and network shopping is easy, convenient, and diverse, offering more choices at better prices. A great deal for most, yet problematic for many, specifically the impulse shopper. As a society we are flooded with advertising on cell phones, iPads, tablets, laptops, and desktops. Using sales strategies that draw the buyer in, and computer …

“Hands up, don’t shoot”

“Hands up, don’t shoot” is on TV, on magazine covers, on the internet, in newspapers, on the streets of major cities, and on suburbia playgrounds. Professional sports teams and dozens of congressional staffers have used the gesture.  Photographers recently took photos of children on a school bus holding their hands up and chanting “hands up, …

Senior Gambling

Some people retire at a much younger age than ever before. Late 50’s and early 60’s is fast becoming the norm, including affording second careers, entrepreneurship, voluntarism, rest, relaxation, social outings, and most recently senior gambling. Casino gaming has become an emerging leisure activity for the retired population. With an increase in legalized casinos, and …