Word: approaches
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...similar approach, Marriott International offers a 24-hour, toll-free hot line manned by social workers to give employees assistance with and referrals for almost any problem. This can include anything from tips on how to maintain a budget to advice on how to handle a child being expelled from school, to what to do if your house burns down. The hot line costs about $1 million annually to operate. It saves Marriott about $4 million in reduced absenteeism and lower turnover...
...free as they want," says New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, whose state funds public pre-kindergarten in 136 districts. Standards vary from state to state. Georgia's pre-kindergarten curriculum includes language, literacy and math concepts. At Brooklyn's P.S. 200, a go-at-your- own-pace approach seems to apply. After a brief lesson, pint-size pupils roam among a playhouse, a game corner, an art center and a library. Says principal Neal Opromalla: "These children learn through play...
...sedatives and kept away from sharp objects. Instead, Conterio and Lader opt for tough love. They refuse to view or discuss scars with patients who enter their five-week program. They push injurers to take responsibility and control in counseling sessions, using an aggressive "Why would you do that?" approach worthy of Dr. Laura. It's a method they say has decreased serious recidivism 75%. "We help them earn back their self-respect," says Conterio. "There's a difference between caring for someone and taking care of them...
...undertake a groundbreaking study of the connection between childhood sexual abuse and adult disorders such as self-injury. "We don't do that kind of research," the researchers say they were told by NIMH officials, as funding for the project dried up. Strong doesn't advocate a particular therapeutic approach--though, like Levenkron, she prefers coddling to the tougher tactics of Conterio and Lader...
...sort of question you normally expect to be addressed in a big-budget action movie. Nor do you expect it to be answered ultimately with a ringing endorsement of the Bill of Rights, since this is an inherently reactionary form, one that tends to favor a muscular approach to crisis management over more reasoned ones, if only because there is more visceral drama to be found at the end of a pointed pistol than in a pointed argument...