Dramatic increase in debt counselling
JOHANNESBURG ? Civil summonses issued for debt for the three months ended September increased 3,5% compared with the same quarter in 2007, Statistics SA said yesterday.

Feeling Better
Counselling Services introduces a new way to help students feel better.

Most Brits worried about financial cost of Christmas
More than three quarters of UK residents are worried about the financial cost of Christmas reveals a new survey out today from debt counselling charity Christians Against Poverty

Nun relents, to visit state
Bhubaneswar, Nov. 20: The Kandhamal nun, undergoing trauma counselling at New Delhi, has agreed to attend the test identification parade anywhere in Orissa ? apart from the strife-torn district, where she was raped on the night of August 25.

Professional Counselling Highlighted
Bandar Seri Begawan - The Department of Educational Psychology at Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Educational Institution yesterday held a counsel I ing seminar and workshop, themed "Realizing Professional Counselling Practices".

Jury at inquest gives recommendations
Jurors at a coroner?s inquest into the death of Gordon Patrick Resler recommended Saskatchewan Health Services review its protocol for prescribing and counselling on the use and side effects of the drug fentanyl.

South Africa: 'Cop Had Access to Counselling'
A State witness has denied claims by former policeman and murder accused Marius van der Westhuizen that the SAPS failed him by not providing adequate counselling for the trauma he witnessed during his tenure as a superintendent at Claremont police station.

Plea deal reached in Eagle Mtn. abuse case
An Eagle Mountain woman accused of abusing children in her care pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of felony child abuse as her family members sobbed in the audience.

Hypnotherapy An Alternative In Counselling And Treating Ailments
Bandar Seri Begawan - Most people might not consider the idea of being hypnotized as an alternative to treating an ailment, and would question its effectiveness. Some might even consider it a vulnerable state to be in, one that would subject them to do anything against their will.

Dealer 'ashamed' of torturing addicts
KITCHENER (Nov 21, 2008) -- WARNING: THIS STORY REPORTS GRAPHIC TESTIMONY THAT MAY DISTURB SOME READERS

More Utah homeowners are facing foreclosure
As the deepening financial crisis and growing unemployment in Utah County compounds the problem of foreclosures, a worrying trend is emerging among those considered to be most at risk, according to a real estate research consultant.

Repeat releases cause havoc for criminal's family
A prolific offender's relative has pleaded for more help for career criminals before and after they're released from jail. The woman, who asked not to be named, said her family's life becomes "hell" every time chronic offender Jacob Socolofsky re-enters the Richmond community from custody.

School mourns woman in balcony collapse death
A Brisbane school is in mourning after the mother of one of its students died in a balcony collapse this morning.

SM SMJA students visit NCB
Sixty students including school counsellors and six teachers from SMJA Secondary School visited the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). The visiting group was briefed by officers from the bureau.

Sydney schoolboy stabbed in groin
Year 10 student stabbed in a park next to his Sydney school.

Blues QB picked for Jackson Award
Toronto Varsity Blues quarterback David Hamilton earned the Russ Jackson Award last night for combining academics, athletics and citizenship in Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Is Smith right on prostitution?
Moves to tackle trafficking and prostitution may be well intentioned but is there a whiff of a moral crusade linking radical feminism and conservative judgementalism?

United Way appeals for more help
GUELPH (Nov 21, 2008) -- More than 100 people gathered in St. George's Square yesterday in hopes of rallying the community to donate to the United Way of Guelph and Wellington.

China quake zone suicides reflect huge emotional toll
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese official at the heart of the Sichuan earthquake zone has committed suicide, state media said on Friday, a setback for reconstruction work and a sign of the ongoing emotional toll from the disaster as winter sets in.

China quake zone suicides reflect huge emotional toll
Source: Reuters BEIJING, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A Chinese official at the heart of the Sichuan earthquake zone has committed suicide, state media said on Friday, a setback for reconstruction work and a sign of the ...