Thank you for bringing so many people home. However, these types of events are NOT mental health problems in and of themselves; they are crimes. And sometimes justice is as healing and necessary as counseling. And it is only just that human service systems become trauma-informed, gender responsive and culturally aligned. When gender and race intersect with economic and health disparities, and vulnerability to violent and sexual victimization is the result, justice must be part of the answer. SELF ASSESSMENT EXERCISE # 2 50
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