Word: psychologists
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Allowing the establishment of final clubs was a move that any social psychologist would have applauded; historians also. In 1815, the exhausted leaders of Europe dispensed with a similar threat to their society by "enthroning" Napoleon on the small island of Elba, and allowing him to reign there...
...school." But others are dismayed by a parental mania to overstuff little minds that are not ready. At the recent convention in Atlanta of the National Association of Independent Schools, hothousing was a major topic among the 4,000 in attendance. Argued one of the panelists, Cleveland-based Educational Psychologist Jane Healy: "We're viewing children as a perfectible product into whom we can quickly and efficiently pour some learning...
Thus far the only proven beneficiaries of preschool programs have been culturally deprived youngsters whose work, at least in the early grades, has been helped by the federally funded Head Start program. But the sustained benefits of Head Start have been questioned. Moreover, says Yale Psychologist Edward Zigler, director of child development for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration, early learning has "no long-term effect on middle-class kids." Zigler caustically condemns hothousing as a yuppie phenomenon, in which parents try to transfer their own hyperambitious goals to children. Irving Sigel, distinguished research scientist...
...biggest problem facing campus counseling groups is reaching those students who are having problems, but who will not seek help. The peer counseling services frequently act as an intermediate step for students who do not want to go see a psychologist. Marquand says that Room 13 "was founded, in part, because students were having trouble trusting established institutional arrangements...
...mental health clinic at UHS has a staff of five psychiatrists, five psychologists, and a number of social workers who coordinate various other programs. Last year, the mental health clinic received about 3000 visits from 750 undergraduates, Catlin says. Most visits are made by appointment, but there is also a walk-in service and a psychologist always on call...