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Articles For Tag "Adolescent" |
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| #1 | 3/4/2012 | Day 13 of the Australian Journey 2012 (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) Today is Day 13 of the Australian Cultural Exchange Journey for 2012. After a quick morning run, we went to Mission Australia's Youth Forum 2012. We met Nancy Ingram, an elder from the area who attended Harvard University and knew about Vermont. I have a talk about the importance of heroism for adolescents and finding ways for them to be heroic or to save face when they feel they have not been heroic. |
| #2 | 4/4/2011 | Adolescent Addictions and Las Vegas (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) This weekend I attended an addictions and mental health conference focused upon adolescents in Las Vegas, Nevada. What an appropriate venue! I spoke about narrative practices in relation to addictions -- how we have to counter the dominant stories about magical potions and find other heroic stories that work equally well. |
| #3 | 11/25/2009 | Why Brain Science Is Bad for Juvenile Justice (Alexandra Cox) advocates' uses of brain research, and their reliance on 'hard' science, raise some potentially troubling questions about the potential impact of this science on ideas about human potential. ...the brain scan is an inadequate substitute for the more holistic, empirically grounded knowledge we have of young people in the criminal justice system. |
| #4 | 11/20/2009 | A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Different Intervention Models for LD/Special Ed. Students (Kirtley Thornton) Since the decade of the brain was declared in 1990, there have been impressive advances in the area of neurodiagnostic instrumentation measuring the physical functioning of the brain and providing a deeper understanding of the functioning of the brain. |
