The Process

  Photo Credit: L.A. Violence Following Rodney King Ruling To understand why violent events occur, it is important to evaluate occurrences historically and, to utilize case precedence, as judges would, in order to determine a ruling. (Think ABCs of the empirical cognitive behavioral theory REBT: antecedent, behavior, and consequences.) In this writing, a phenomenology design was utilized, and a method of triangulation was applied. This research method is used to answer specific applicable research questions such as: What caused the most recent L.A. riots, how does it relate to the Rodney King riot, what role does race play in triggering riots, and how are riots a common milieu tactic, and how is the recent January 6 event related, and lastly, how does the body react to traumatic events and for how long? There are two significant events, examined herein as themes, that occurred in Los Angeles, It is not known if these events occurred as retribution to rulings. Not too distant ruling...

  (Photo Credit: Fritz Perls) Albert Ellis developed a therapeutic treatment called Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) in the 1950s. REBT is an extension of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) developed by Aaron Beck in the 1960s. These therapeutic modalities are useful in coping with a host of hurt locker challenges from chronic pain, to death, to observing death (such as with military Veterans and police), eating disorders, overcoming violence, grieving loss of a spouse/partner, etc. The Department of Veterans Affairs utilizes these treatment modalities to improve focus, as restructuring negative thought patterns and behaviors, typically for eight weeks.  These treatments are widely used to reframe how individuals feel and think about situations in the current context.  My personal favorite is the ABCs of REBT and I've attached a link to a REBT worksheet below. The ABCs are as follows: A=Event, B=Behavior, C=Outcomes.  Let's use a rhetorical analogy with REB...

Neighborhood Dealers & School Days In the very recent past, my daughter was attending a local S.W. community high school. This memory is easily recollected, like a still frame in my mind, seeing young kids with backpacks on sitting outside a convenience store a quarter mile from the nearby high school. This occurrence manifested enough times to spark a little more than curiosity.  Observations, thus, were taken a step further. On several additional trips to the high school, it was decided to sit in the car at this convenience mart to write down exactly what was occurring. An individual would exit the store and leave a package nearby a dumpster outside whereby the adolescent picked up the bag. There are two possibilities to describe what was occurring: 1. The store was feeding the school kid—perhaps not cared for at home or 2. The man coming out of the store was dealing drugs 3. Money allegedly had already been exchanged inside the store What is known is the store was clos...

This post is a bit like narrative storytelling, but not, from a member of the Department of Public Safety. Accordingly, I will use the nearest proximity rule, and not reflect on developmental theory and trauma, which in reflection proves useful-in not repeating patterns of mistakes, and for many proves useful in solving issues of probable conduct adjustment.  With beneficence, I think of recent artifacts received from some musicians: "Why don't you just heal yourself" and "Not another, blah, blah, blah post". It is not known if these manifestations are of ill intent, nor did they understand who they were speaking with. What is known is behavior of conduct disorder repeats within three years, as aligned with the Deputy Director, and there is nowhere to hide.  Behaviorally, it is vetted via microaggressions and unfortunately, for some, as microaggressions. While inductively and deductively you can manifest similar results either way. Make sense? As a counselor and...

 Anti inflammation Diseases and Purported Anti-measures Make Smart Environmental Choices Part 1 With a reflective lens to 2020, Weiner and Chitnus found a (still) growing body of evidence of inflammatory challenges to the central nervous system (CNS). This empirical evidence indicates inflammation, and diet play a pivotal role in CNS neurodegenerative diseases.  Variables to avoid as anticipated triggers to exacerbate bodily inflammation include stress, environmental triggers to stress, abuse (and abusive situations as microaggressions and macro aggressions in environments), as well as geography.  What is meant by CNS disease? Diseases of the central nervous system include Alzheimer’s, ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and multiple sclerosis (MS). Observations taken at various stages of CNS neurodegeneration involve, both adaptive and innate, are evidenced via immune system presentations during the disease life cycle. Moreover, neurodegeneration, may not accelerate di...

  13-1202 .  Threatening or intimidating; classification Arizona Law A. A person commits threatening or intimidating if the person threatens or intimidates by word or conduct: 1. To cause physical injury to another person or serious damage to the property of another; or 2. To cause, or in reckless disregard to causing, serious public inconvenience including, but not limited to, evacuation of a building, place of assembly or transportation facility; or 3. To cause physical injury to another person or damage to the property of another in order to promote, further or assist in the interests of or to cause, induce or solicit another person to participate in a criminal street gang, a criminal syndicate or a racketeering enterprise. B. Threatening or intimidating pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 is a class 1 misdemeanor, except that it is a class 6 felony if: 1. The offense is committed in retaliation for a victim's either reporting criminal activity or being involved in a...

  Domestic violence whether throwing hits, or being hit, or speaking abusive words -- it's all domestic violence and diagnosable in the DSM V. During my M.S. Professional Counseling work, I worked with a team to deliver food to women's shelters -- woman residing at the short-long term facility -- escaping domestic abuse in their home environment all while receiving positive living tips and knowledge of domestic violence perps. With today's Internet and social media, it becomes difficult to avoid exposure to painful images. Counselors learn how to take painful attacks or images head on by bracketing or tabling the data in a different compartment of the brain, to come back to it at an appropriate time. However, when one controls the media and the data they wish to display. as with malfeasance to harm someone, you really need to consider the source. What type of person would purposely harm someone with online images? It is a being with dark personality traits of sadism, religi...