Word: behavior
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...involve teenagers with their parents in understanding the issues of marriage, family and reproduction." The program has been tested in selected schools in Utah, California and New Mexico since 1982, but, he admits, "we don't have a lot of evidence yet that we've changed behavior...
Changing human behavior is, of course, always an elusive objective. When Researcher Douglas Kirby, head of the Washington-based Center for Population Options, studied the behavioral effects of sex education, he found them to be few and far between. Sex-education graduates certainly knew more about reproduction, but that did not significantly affect their habits. There was, however, one important exception. Kirby found that when sex-education programs are coupled with efforts to help teenagers obtain contraceptives, the pregnancy rate drops sharply...
...portrays an incendiary old socialist, a meddlesome lover of confrontation politics and a compulsive impersonator of whoever might solve his problems, from a union lawyer to a Mafia don to "Dr. Friedrich Engles," a purported psychoanalyst. He too is hiding, from a daughter who wants to supervise his risky behavior. When at last she catches up with him, he deftly summarizes her alternative plans to take him in, place him in a nursing home or consign him to day care at a senior citizens' center: "O.K., we got three possibilities. We got exile in Great Neck. We got Devil...
...were at the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in Phoenix and feel your report on it was sensationalistic [BEHAVIOR, Dec. 23]. By focusing on the more extreme views of a few participants, you missed the workshops and working sessions, which offered valuable wisdom, training and hope. Your focus on the controversies gives a totally different impression than we had after a more balanced participation in the conference. Craig Van Tuinen, M.D. Carol Rooke Van Tuinen, R.N. Newton Corner, Mass...
...arts are some new thoughts for television exposure. Wick is convinced that one of the reasons there has been no major new war for six years is the ability of people to look each other in the eye across continents and either praise worthy achievements or condemn villainous behavior. "Foreign policy is no longer the exclusive domain of the elites," he says. "Telecommunication has made it possible for governments to speak directly to people in other countries. The impact is unparalleled in the world's history...