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...commitment therapy (ACT) with a group of 16 chronic-pain patients ages 10 to 18 saw remarkable results: after just 10 weeks of ACT sessions, during which patients were taught strategies for accepting chronic pain so they could pursue important goals, those kids suffered less intensely and functioned significantly better day to day than did a control group of 16 chronic-pain kids who had been treated the way kids with persistent aches are normally treated - with drugs and standard talk therapy. Both groups improved, but the children in the ACT group, who got no drugs, improved more than those...
...proved to be the better approach by far. Even when the ACT kids were interviewed 18 weeks after their last session, they reported less discomfort than did the control group, as well as less fear of injury and greater capacity to do things like go to school regularly. The authors conclude that drugs, while they can help in the short term, don't stimulate long-term behavior change. By contrast, with ACT, "the target in treatment is to clarify and reduce avoidance behaviors that prevent the patient from living a vital life," the study says. (Read "On the Couch Online...
...this time, she won’t have to lead. “It’s just going to be me and Kate Mills, so it’s going to be a totally different atmosphere,” Clarke said. “I hope I swim better. The last two years I haven’t swam as well at NCAAs than at Ivies, so hopefully this year will be different.”Even with such success, Clarke knows it can only get better.“We only graduate [two seniors this year...
...more to bring out these leaders, to get this talent out into the world to make change, we could see a drastic transformation. It’s time to invert these broken systems, it’s time to take down these broken social institutions, and make them better. Harvard should know this and should be doing more to get its students out in the world making change...
...wrong.9. FM: You published a novel of your own, “The Book Against God”. What was it like waiting for the reviews to come out, being known as such an exacting critic yourself?JW: Actually, torture. One would think that the experience would get better. That rather, like childbirth, you’d learn how to deal with the pain.10. FM: In your (CM) forthcoming novel, there’s a section about an old man moving to a retirement home. You’ve suggested that this might feel like living in a college dorm...