Word: mentality
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...frontal lobe, where rational judgments are made, does not occur until the early- to mid-20s. At the state level, Missouri is leading the country by phasing out its large juvenile-detention institutions in favor of smaller facilities, closer to kids' homes, that offer more specialized services, like mental-health and drug counseling and education. In the process, the state claims to have reduced recidivism rates for juvenile offenders to 10%, compared with a national rate of 40% to 50%. "We cannot incarcerate our way out of this problem of juvenile crime," says Shay Bilchik, director of Georgetown University...
...Surveys have determined that while as many as 75% of kids sentenced to some kind of facility need support for mental-health issues or drug counseling, only about a third are actually getting help. But Georgetown's Bilchik says there is a national movement to create more "wraparound support programs" - for mental health, education, drug counseling - to give prosecutors and judges more options than choosing between institutionalization and probation, which generally provide few services the kids need. "When you see additional services being offered, you see judges opting for them," he says...
...actually very happy,” he said. “Last year was disappointing and I’m glad I haven’t lost too much ground. [Coming back from injury] is mostly mental and I’m glad I still have that edge...
...relying only on the reactions of another who have experienced the event, individuals are immune to many errors of inaccurate mental simulation, the study said...
Bailey’s story was brought closer to students on Tuesday evening, when Tim Marchell, director of mental health initiatives at Cornell University, engaged students in a discussion about hazing and past incidents of hazing at Harvard...