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Sphere: Related ContentUnder the title “Troubled Children: Parenting as Therapy for Child’s Mental Disorders” in the New York Times, Benedict Carey has an extended article about parents using behavioral techniques to address the problems experienced by children with ADHD, acting out, Tourettes, and other Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. Mr. Carey focused his article on a family, the Popczynskis, who successfully learned to employ management procedures by working with William Pelham and his colleages at the the University of Buffalo.
Continue reading ‘Family therapy’
Sphere: Related ContentOn the blog over at Psych Central under the title “Scanning for Schizophrenia,” Sandra Kiume has a post about developments in prediction of schizophrenia. Genetic risk in combination with MRI scans is increasing the accuracy of predictions, according to Ms. Kiume’s reading of data from the Edinburgh High Risk Study. Link Ms. Kiume’s entry.
Sphere: Related ContentIn contrast to popular theories about the origin of autism, which are usually based on relatively weak evidence, there are some scientifically strong developments in the study of genetics and autism over the past 5-10 years (although the effort is actually older than that). Researchers at a variety of institutions around the world are finding converging evidence that genes probably play an important part is explaining the etiology of autism.
One important effort is the International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium and another is the (US) National Alliance for Autism Research Autism Genome Project. These efforts represent collaborating research teams studying many families worldwide; their aim is to map parts of the human genome that might account for an inherited risk for autism. They include teams from Great Britan, the US, Ireland, and Canada (and other countries). As these efforts (and other research programs) gain momentum, playing off each others’ findings, the pace of increase in our understanding of the role genetics play in autism will increase more and more rapidly. To learn more about the genetics of autism, start at Exploring Autism.
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Sphere: Related ContentOver on Mentor Matters Mrs. Ris has reported on her efforts to help a child with some substantial Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. Mrs. Ris is an experienced teacher who’s seen some difficult students, but she’s decided that this particular boy needs something more than what she and her team can provide. Having had to make similar recommendations, I know how difficult it is to make such decisions. But, for some children, the plain fact is that sometimes more help is needed. Mrs. Ris explains this well.
I’m not sure if this is the same child to whom she referred when she welcomed a sixth child to her classroom, but there are two recent posts—relief and the waiting game—that tell the current story.
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