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Jeffrey Howard, a Harvard social psychologist, rejected West's emphasis on external explanations for Black problems. Howard said the failure of government programs, for example, should not be blamed exclusively for problems confronting the Black community, such as a high crime rate, drug abuse, and higher instances of teenage pregnancy...

Author: By Evan M. Supcoff, | Title: W.E.B. DuBois Society Discusses Role of Black Intellectuals | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Various researchers have blamed youth suicides on such disparate causes as the Viet Nam War, television, the drug culture and stress generated by the sheer number of baby boomers. Los Angeles Clinical Psychologist Michael Peck suggests that in today's highly mobile families, the high rate of divorce and generally "less available parenting" have left adolescents with little emotional backup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Could Suicide Be Contagious? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...vestiges of an interdisciplinary outlook, according to some of those around during its early days, but the pressures of academia wore that commitment down. The demise of psychology's social focus "was not malicious, it was not a conspiracy," stresses George W. Goethals '43, a clinical and social psychologist who has spent most of the last four decades at Harvard. According to Goethals, departments simply take their form from the people who make them up, doing its work and recommending its tenure appointments...

Author: By M.d. Nolan, | Title: Drawing Lines: From Social Relations, to PSR, to Psychology | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

...three, she ably assisted her father in his 1984 presidential campaign. Visitors last week found her hesitant and withdrawn, sometimes clinging to her father in an almost childlike fashion. "Her mood + goes up and down. She is still frightened of everything," said Duarte. On the advice of the psychologist who counseled the family during its 44-day vigil, the President has joined his daughter in therapy sessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador Too Much Like a Father? | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

Last month, the club sponsored an appearance by Paul Cameron, a Nebraska-based psychologist who advocates a quarantine of homosexuals, intravenous drug addiets, and prostitutes whose blood carries the virus that causes AIDS...

Author: By Janet A. Sachs, | Title: Divestment's Not the Only Show in Town | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

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