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Twenty Years of Medicating Youth: Are We Better off?
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Foltz, Robert – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2012
One would like to believe that advances in science have resulted in improved outcomes for troubled youth. Trends in treatment have changed dramatically in two decades. Technology to understand the brain and its functions are highly advanced. But the United States is now medicating youth more than any other country. There is growing concern about…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Drug Therapy, Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Modification
Improving the Knowledge Base in Teacher Education.
Rockler, Michael J. – 1987
Education in the United States for most of the last 50 years has built its knowledge base on a single dominating foundation--behavioral psychology. This paper analyzes the history of behaviorism. Syntheses are presented of the theories of Ivan P. Pavlov, J. B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner, all of whom contributed to the body of works on behaviorism.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavioral Objectives, Behaviorism, Brain Hemisphere Functions