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...failed to show that preemptive drug treatment offered a substantial, measurable benefit, McGlashan told the New York Times recently that he doubts prevention of schizophrenia is possible. "I'm more pessimistic about all this now," he said. "I think more than ever we need to follow a group of [at-risk] adolescents who get no drug treatment to see more clearly what happens and refine our understanding of what the prodrome...
Superintendent Adams believes he has come up with the right prescription for Shelbyville. The high school has established a credit lab, a sort of open study hall that lets at-risk kids recover credit from classes that they have failed. The principal at the elementary school is trying to identify at-risk kids in first grade. In the middle school, students are taking high school--graduation pledges, promising to be onstage with a diploma along with the rest of their class...
...hosted by Strong Women Strong Girls (SWSG). The third to fifth graders, who participated in the event, were introduced to a broad range of potential professions through a series of educational workshops in different career fields. Members of SWSG, an all-female campus mentoring organization for at-risk girls in the Boston area, ran the workshops, which allowed the girls to explore careers in architecture, business, science, and law enforcement. Participants also learned basic resume and interview skills in a “careers toolkit” workshop. “[SWSG] tried to give a representative sample of what...
...original group - now mostly in their early 50s - agreed to give dna samples, which were crosschecked with their life stories. The result is a guide for working out depression risk: for example, a person with the high-risk genotype who experiences three or more adverse life events in a year has an 80% risk of becoming depressed, compared with a 30% risk for someone with the protective genotype. Studies involving genetically at-risk people are the next step, say the researchers, who want to explore what types of intervention - psychological or pharmacological - might help these people cope with crises like...
Born into a Reconstructionist Jewish family in White Plains, New York, Matisyahu says he first began to feel a resonance with faith when he traveled to Israel at the age of 16. He began to hone his musical abilities while enrolled in a wilderness program for at-risk teenagers...