Lima Catholic Schools kick off positive addiction week with motivational speaker

Catholic therapists address preventing addiction, healing affected families

(OSV News) — Catholic counselor Lorraine Saldivar grew up with an alcoholic father. But because she and her husband weren’t alcoholics, she felt her children would be safe. Then her daughter “went through almost every addiction you can imagine,” she said. Salvidar shared her family’s story, as well as her clinical experience working with families of people with addictions, at the trauma and addiction-focused Catholic Psychotherapy Association Co…

Lima Catholic Schools kick off positive addiction week with motivational speaker

Students today face a number of challenges that can lead to poor decisions, including the influence of social media, alcohol abuse and vaping.

Catholic mental health therapists integrate faith, spirituality into treatment plans - Catholic Review

Mental illness in America has been declared an official social health care emergency — especially since the COVID-19 pandemic and as community-fragmenting forms of social media continue to multiply. “Recent data show that the United States is in mental health crisis, experienced by people of all ages,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in August 2024. “This trend was observed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but has bee…