Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduation, Radcliffe students of 25 years ago lived under rules which, by today's standards, may seem archaic to returning alumnae. Dress codes, curfews, and signing in and out at the bell desk were regular features of daily living. "There certainly were a lot of irrelevant constraints on our behavior," says Cornelia DeNood Swayze '61, who today lives on a farm in Vermont. "We couldn't wear pants without a long coat over them...
...three treatments worked well with less disturbed patients. But among the severely depressed (44% of the sample), cognitive behavior therapy proved less effective than drug or interpersonal therapy. Researchers are inclined to doubt that the difference is significant. The general finding that the two different talk therapies are about equally effective strengthens the hand of those who believe that since most therapies get about the same results, the hotly debated differences among talk treatments are basically irrelevant...
Type-A people, Americans have been taught to believe, are the competitive, impatient and hostile individuals who are prime candidates for heart attacks. But after 25 years, that portrait turns out to be highly debatable. At a May 9-10 conference at the University of Kansas, behavioral and medical scientists reached no agreement on whether the subject of the meeting, the Type-A behavior pattern, still exists. "We're all struggling," said Psychologist Larry Scherwitz of the University of California at San Francisco. "We have a concept that's not working. We're trying to find out what's wrong...
According to Scherwitz, six major research programs have failed to uphold the notion that Type-A behavior leads to increased heart risk. Scherwitz's own projects turned up evidence that some Type A's may be better off than many of the placid Type B's. A pioneer in the field, Ray Rosenman of the University of California, Berkeley, now says that Type-A behavior "may not necessarily be bad for any given individual at all." Other researchers reported that many of the traits associated with Type-A behavior, including fast-paced speech and eating and a sense of urgency...
...four states, always arriving with sterling references from past associates. Thus Mamay's colleagues were astounded last August when he was convicted in Massachusetts for raping one patient and assaulting three others. An investigation by the Boston Globe showed that Mamay had come under question many times for unprofessional behavior and for sexually assaulting patients. He had been tried (and acquitted) for molesting a 15-year-old as far back as 1978. Apparently, none of this had been reported to licensing officials, and somehow, nothing appeared on his record...