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New therapy

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JohnL
on 15 February 2008
in ADHD, Acting in, Acting out, Autism, Behavior management, Bi-polar, Bullying, Conduct disorder, Depression, Families, Musings, News, Policy, Research, Schizophrenia and Treatment
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Here’s a description of a highly touted intervention.

[Method X] is recognized worldwide as a general method to reinforce the body’s protective abilities for people of all ages who suffer from various disorders and pre-illness conditions, i.e. practically healthy people.

[Method X] involves the organized interaction between [therapy agent] and person, with optimal conditions to offer benefits to the person as well as the [therapy agent].

 [Method X] can assist in the following tasks:

- Correction of psychological development for people with nervous system disorders
- Development of cognitive activity for people with psycho-neurological disorders
- Development of children’s speech
- Removal of chronic pain
- Reduction of neurological and vegetative-vascular reactions
- Relief from psychosomatic conditions
- Reduction of unintentional movements, tics and spasms
- Rehabilitation of people, victims of violence or other stressful situations
- Psycho-emotional training for specialists whose work is connected with extremely stressful situations
- Leisure and relaxation for healthy people – children and adults

The main component of [Method X] is the psychological effect from the interaction between [the client] and [the therapy assistant] in an unaccustomed environment and the physical therapy effect from [Y and Z] made by these [therapists].

Would you want to use this therapy for yourself or your child?

I would! But, that’s because I know what the therapy is.

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TECBD 2007

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JohnL
on 28 August 2007
in ADHD, Acting in, Acting out, Assessment, Autism, Behavior management, Bi-polar, Bullying, Causes, Conduct disorder, Depression, Families, News, Policy, Research, Schizophrenia and Treatment
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The annual meeting of Teacher Educators for Children with Behavioral Disorders (TECBD), now named after Rob Rutherford who founded it, will be held 15-17 November 2007 in Tempe (AZ, US). Steve Forness, Cheryl George, and John Maag are among the people who’ll be speaking this year.

Every year, EBDBlog has announced the call for papers, so this is nothing new. There is still time to propose a presentation for this year’s meeting. Potential presenters may submit proposals for sessions using the TECBD site.

Link to the Web site for TECBD. Link for proposing presentations.

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Bully picture

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JohnL
on 22 May 2007
in Acting out, Bullying, Families, News, Treatment and Uncategorized
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Over on ms-teacher, a teacher has a little piece applauding a mother’s response to her daughter being suspended from school for bullying. The entry refers to a newspaper article describing how 12-year-old Miasha Williams’ mother had her hold a sign reading “I engaged in bullying behavior. I got suspended from school and this street corner. Don’t be like me. Stop bullying” in front of schools.
Continue reading ‘Bully picture’

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Troubling mix

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JohnL
on 6 March 2007
in ADHD, Acting out, Behavior management, Bullying, Families and News
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Here’s a story about a troubling combination of race, disability, adolescence, sports mentality, and probably other factors that apparently combined to result in—you guessed it—violence. Under the headline “Martin schools sued over beating,” Daphne Duret of the Palm Beach (FL, US) Post reported about a suit being brought by Michele Potts because of a beating she says her son, Henry Daniel Banks, received after a football practice, ostensibly for using a racial slur during the practice.

A Hobe Sound mother sued the Martin County School Board Monday claiming school officials failed to protect her emotionally disabled son, who briefly played football at South Fork High School before several teammates accused him of using a racial slur and beat him up in a locker room.

Michele Potts’ son, Henry Daniel Banks, was a week into his freshman year and an offensive lineman on the junior varsity football team in August 2005, when at least two players followed him into the freshman locker room at the end of practice one afternoon, records show. They beat him so badly they caused permanent damage to his teeth and jaw, knocking two of his teeth into the roof of his mouth, his mother said.

Link to Ms. Duret’s story.

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Bullying study

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JohnL
on 5 July 2006
in Acting in, Acting out, Bullying, Conduct disorder, Depression, News and Research
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Just in case someone forgot or didn’t understand in the first place, bullying has nasty consequences.

PEDIATRICS Vol. 118 No. 1 July 2006, pp. 130-138 (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-2388)

Bullying Victimization Uniquely Contributes to Adjustment Problems in Young Children: A Nationally Representative Cohort Study

Louise Arseneault, PhDa, Elizabeth Walsh, MDb, Kali Trzesniewski, PhDa, Rhiannon Newcombe, PhDa, Avshalom Caspi, PhDa,c and Terrie E. Moffitt, PhDa,c

a Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre
b Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
c Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

OBJECTIVE. It has been shown that bullying victimization is associated with behavior and school adjustment problems, but it remains unclear whether the experience of bullying uniquely contributes to those problems after taking into account preexisting adjustment problems.

METHODS. We examined bullying in the Environmental Risk Study, a nationally representative 1994–1995 birth cohort of 2232 children. We identified children who experienced bullying between the ages of 5 and 7 years either as pure victims or bully/victims. We collected reports from mothers and teachers about children’s behavior problems and school adjustment when they were 5 years old and again when they were age 7.

RESULTS. Compared with control children, pure victims showed more internalizing problems and unhappiness at school when they were 5 and 7 years. Girls who were pure victims also showed more externalizing problems than controls. Compared with controls and pure victims, bully/victims showed more internalizing problems, more externalizing problems, and fewer prosocial behaviors when they were 5 and 7 years. They also were less happy at school compared with control children at 7 years of age. Pure victims and bully/victims showed more behavior and school adjustment problems at 7 years of age, even after controlling for preexisting adjustment problems at 5 years of age.

CONCLUSIONS. Being the victim of a bully during the first years of schooling contributes to maladjustment in young children. Prevention and intervention programs aimed at reducing mental health problems during childhood should target bullying as an important risk factor.

Link to the Pediatrics abstract.

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