The Associated Press reports, “State budget cuts are forcing some of the nation’s youngest criminals out of counseling programs and group homes and into juvenile prisons in what critics contend is a shortsighted move that will eventually lead to more crime and higher costs.” Original Source: foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2008Dec26/0,4675,MeltdownJuvenileJustice,00.html What’s more beneficial to young people and society at… Read More: Counseling vs Prison »
Carroll Izard, University of Delaware Distinguished Professor of Psychology, has received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for work on an intervention program to help save children from lifelong emotional problems. The project includes over 250 children in Head Start’s preschool program in Wilmington. Most of the children, ages 3… Read More: The Look On Your Face »
In a study published online (December 4) by the British Medical Journal, scientists from Harvard University and UC San Diego indicate that happiness spreads through social networks of family, friends and neighbors – even three degrees removed. The scientists, who examined the relationships of 4,739 people for a period of twenty years (1983 – 2003),… Read More: Emotions are Socially Contagious »
An investigation by the Associated Press reveals that the number of ‘mentally disabled’ people who are confined to institutions in Texas is six times the national average. The federal government has concluded that the Texas care system is “stubbornly out of step with modern mental health practices. Critics allege that Texas remains stuck in an… Read More: Texas Time Warp »