Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congress is held in very low esteem. Is there a cure...
John McCarthy, executive director of the Association of Quality Clubs, reports that 25% of his 1,550 member clubs offer seminars in nutrition, stress management and smoking cessation; 25% have weight-loss programs; and 12% provide courses in self-esteem. Among the more adventurous is the Saw Mill River Club in Mount Kisco, N.Y., which conducts lectures on self-healing and hypnosis and occasionally brings in a sex therapist for a panel discussion...
Ducc's prison diagnostic-evaluation sheet notes that he suffers "low self- esteem." Ducc says that belonging to a gang is about obtaining "respect." Respect and disrespect make up the reigning ethos of the streets. Kids seek respect by joining a gang, then prove themselves by punishing someone outside the gang for an act of disrespect. In Los Angeles you "dis" a rival gang by uttering an irreverent nickname; "cheese toes" is a slang word for Crips and a sure way of provoking a gun battle...
Carnes says sex addicts, generally, were abused as children. They suffer from low self-esteem and use compulsive sex as a substitute for the love and < acceptance they never got at home. They develop an elaborate system of denial to delude themselves into thinking that their behavior is acceptable...
Detractors also contend that there is no clear link between self-esteem and academic performance and that a variety of people -- not just black men -- can effectively teach African-American boys. "It's helpful to have role models from one's own group," says child psychiatrist James Comer, director of the Child Study Center at Yale. "But there's probably no need to have role models exclusively from that group...