{"id":1118,"date":"2015-08-03T18:37:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T01:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2015-08-03T19:16:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T02:16:44","slug":"expert-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Expert Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AR-150739995.jpg&maxh=400&maxw=667\"<\/a>This is a local news story that only brings sadness and pain to the reader, until one\u00a0reads the part of the victim’s mother who doesn’t blame the accused, and suggests\u00a0her daughter death is\u00a0not ‘in vain’; rather, a loss\u00a0that will promote\u00a0awareness of teenage mental health issues. Now, regardless of what you may think of the accused’s actions, you can’t help but agree\u00a0with the victim’s mother in promoting a higher\u00a0understanding of an otherwise desparate and unpardonable act.<\/p>\n

Kids kill kids by accident and, yes, on purpose. Some seem to understand the concept of death, and others can’t grasp it’s finality and unnecessary\u00a0tragedy. We are reminded by this case of another occurring in 2011 with a then 12 year old in Fort Lauderdale, Florida who killed a 6 year old, asserting it accidentally happened while\u00a0imitating pro wrestling moves. Another in the UK by a couple of older children who beat to death a toddler in Liverpool, and later released by law enforcement in giving them ‘new identities’. Whatever the circumstance, society bears\u00a0the responsibility of both protecting itself from the outside-in while it looks at ways to make itself safer from the inside-out; meaning, providing treatment to it’s citizens in need.<\/p>\n

In my assessment of this young man in Santa Cruz, I wonder how many others like him are out there needing help from\u00a0those adults who can direct them\u00a0to resources. I am happy to say that I have helped a number of pre-criminal and criminal teenage and child offenders find the treatment programs that work successfully with kids fitting this profile. There are a number of us ‘professionals’ out there\u00a0willing to listen and direct families to resources that can help. If you are a parent, a teacher, a caregiver, a law enforcer, don’t hesitate in helping\u00a0a teen get treatment. It starts with a call.<\/p>\n

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This is a local news story that only brings sadness and pain to the reader, until one\u00a0reads the part of the victim’s mother who doesn’t blame the accused, and suggests\u00a0her daughter death is\u00a0not ‘in vain’; rather, a loss\u00a0that will promote\u00a0awareness of teenage mental health issues. Now, regardless of what you may think of the accused’sContinue reading Expert Territory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drmarkburdick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}