Monthly Archive for June, 2011

Virginia campaign promotes action agenda

Published on 22 June 2011 in Families, Mental health, News and The press. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

The Campaign for Children’s Mental Health outlined an agenda for improving mental health policy for children and youths in the US commonwealth of Virginia on 14 June 2011. The “Action Agenda” expresses the need for Govenor Bob McDonnell to exert leadership in three policy areas so that the problems of 100,000 minors with mental health issues are addressed:

  • Children with mental health disorders and their families need to have a full array of high quality treatment and support services in their own communities, no matter where in Virginia they reside.
  • Children with serious mental health disorders who require public sector services need to have access to the same array of services regardless of payment source or custody status in order to maximize the impact of and curb inappropriate use of public dollars in the treatment system.
  • Children with mental health disorders and their families should be recognized and included as experts on their own and their children’s treatment needs.

Visit the 1 in 5 Website (see it over in the sidebar, too) and download the full statement of the Action Agenda.

I am very glad to have and I hope others will join me in signing a petition to support this effort. Isn’t it great to have this effort right here in Virginia? Do you have similar efforts in the area where you live?

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50 Cent’s anti-bullying book

Published on 21 June 2011 in Bookshelf, News and The press. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

According to the Publishers Weekly, rap artist 50 Cent is writing a book with an anti-bullying theme.

50 Cent, whose book Playground was bought by Razorbill publisher Ben Schrank, will address the topic of bullying in novel format; the book is planned to be a first person fictional account and the title will be edited by Laura Arnold. Marc Gerald at the Agency Group brokered the world rights deal, and Playground is scheduled for January 2012.

Other news reports indicate that the novel will be aimed at the young-adult market and that it draws on Mr. Cent’s personal experiences as a youth. The lead character is a 13-year old “who finds redemption as he faces what he’s done.”

Here’s the link to the Publishers Weekly story; the quote is at the bottom of it. In an interesting twist, as I searched for the original press release I found that the blog on Mr. Cent’s Web site quotes a story from MTV about the book. Here’s a link to that post. I would have thought that the rapper’s site would have had the authoritative source…?

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EBD historic foundations

Published on 16 June 2011 in Bookshelf, News, Professsional development and The press. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Many readers of EBD Blog will probably be interested in a three-part series about the history of behavior disorders that is currently appearing in the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. As editor Doug Chaney noted in an e-mail message recently, the series was

Written by Drs. Kaff, Teagarden, and Zabel at Kansas State University. They interviewed the founding leaders of the field of emotional/behavioral disorders over the past two years as part of the Janus Oral History Project, which is sponsored by the Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders (MSLBD). MSLBD is an independent, non-profit organization that supports and fosters leadership in the field of EBD and has held an annual conference focusing on research and practice in EBD over the past 25 years. The central purpose of the Janus Oral History Project (JOHP) is to: (a) record and analyze the professional experiences of leaders in the field of special education, (b) preserve their first-hand perspectives on past and present knowledge and practice, and (c) offer informed forecasts on potential future issues and challenges to the field.

Thanks to the publisher of JEBD, MSLBD, and other associated with the project (here, here!) these valuable looks at the foundational period of the study of EBD are available for free on the Internet. They are worthwhile resources for scholars and students as well as interested lay readers. Here’s a link to the first installment. Watch for subsequent installments.

Kaff, M. S., Teagarden, J. M., & Zabel, R. H. (2011). An oral history of first-generation leaders in education of children with emotional/behavioral disorders, part 1: The accidental special educator. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 19(2).

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