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From the book The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace
as excerpted by the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations
Edited by CARY CHERNISS & DANIEL GOLEMAN | First published: 2001
… The flight from New York to Detroit was delayed two hours in departing, and the tension among the passengers— almost entirely businessmen—was palpable. As they ...Posted by:
By SARAH JANE TRIBBLE | Published: April 30, 2013
As a parent, it’s difficult to miss the recent headlines projecting a rise in ADHD cases among children.
Nearly 10 percent of U.S. children between 4 and 17 years old had been diagnosed with attention deficiet hyperactivity disorder as of 2007, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 5.4 million children.
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Read More →By Heather B. Weiss, Margaret Caspe and M. Elena Lopez | Published: Spring 2006
Family involvement matters for young children’s cognitive and social development. But what do effective involvement processes look like, and how do they occur? This research brief summarizes the latest evidence base on effective involvement — that is, the research studies that link family involvement in early childhood to outcomes and programs that ...
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Published 2009
Worrisome events like school violence are terribly upsetting to all of us. It’s hard enough for adults to make sense of such horrific events; just imagine how difficult it is for children to wrap their minds around concepts like violence, evil and death. Children react in individual ways to scary events depending upon their age and psychological makeup. To help them understand frightening real-life events, such as school violence, wars, terrorist strikes, ...
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By L. ALAN SROUFE | Published: January 28, 2012
THREE million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents were deeply alarmed because there was a shortage of drugs like Ritalin and Adderall that they considered absolutely essential to their children’s functioning.
But are these drugs really helping children? Should we really keep expanding the number of prescriptions filled?
In 30 years there has been a twentyfold increase ...
Read More →By ALAN SCHWARZ | Published: October 9, 2012
CANTON, Ga. — When Dr. Michael Anderson hears about his low-income patients struggling in elementary school, he usually gives them a taste of some powerful medicine: Adderall.
The pills boost focus and impulse control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Although A.D.H.D is the diagnosis Dr. Anderson makes, he calls the disorder “made up” and “an excuse” to prescribe the pills to treat what he considers the children’s true ill — poor ...
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