Intellectual Takeout’s Post

Our new paper is out today, which is our attempt to characterise social experiences/ challenges in adulthood in a group who were adopted following prolonged and severe early deprivation. https://lnkd.in/ehZPCGP4

It's a jaw-dropping fact to note that despite a humanistic-dominating worldview across countries, the educational system has exhibited a remarkable degree of impermeability in teaching good human character. Some nice-to-have human principles are appreciated universally. When children respect parents for example. Or being helpful, maintaining good relationships, feeding the poor, being honest, sticking to agreements, not cheating in business, acting the best with family members, being truthful, caring for the orphans, and joining together to accomplish the same. Nowadays, even the very basics are in need of dissemination due to erosion and re-questioning. It is not sufficient to delegate the responsibility to intuition to arrive at these qualities. Man forgets often and needs to be reminded. Enough reminders are an encouragement to shift the balance, forging parts of the personality. This formation should be shared by everybody. Parents at home, friends we hang out with, colleagues we work with, and strangers on the street. Society currently relies on randomness to produce good citizens. After passing through the educational system, people took from the good like a leaking basket, feeding themselves a miser's meal. Then people complain when rulers are corrupt, the administration is inefficient, partners cheat more than enough even in open relationships, traders sting and we are apathetic to hunger. People are ready to blame a decaying society, including health on everything except what they sowed with their hands. Schools are your regional tavern, gambling house, drug den, whore house, and chamber of horrors all in one. People in my country should verify these statements one by one. Setting foot in even one of these places is sufficient to be doomed. This means that a child is surrounded by drunkards, gamblers, drug addicts, whores, and psychological abusers. To come even clean is a miracle. We follow people we take as friends. Bad companionship is like hanging out with a blacksmith. Even if sparks don't burn your clothes, you and your clothes will drink smoke and stink. It's the individual responsibility of everybody to share good advice. If humans are good, society will be a nice place to live and people will look forward to living. Else people will envy the inhabitants of graves if only they were friends with them instead of living with arc-demons in a hellish reality.

So important for researchers to untangle these complex biological and social factors.

"I knew nothing of my neurodivergent identity or the intricacies of what was physically happening in my body throughout my undergraduate experience, but that didn't stop me from seeking help. It is my hope that by reading this, you will learn all the ways that you, too, can seek help for your disability, along with all the small, daily ways you can advocate for what you need." Our latest blog post from Jennifer Poyntz explores chronic illness, neurodiversity & self-advocacy in university - -

“In 1981, Sharon Wegscheider published Another Chance: Hope and Health for the Alcoholic Family through Science and Behavior Books, Inc. Science and Behavior Books, Inc. had been created to publish the works of Virgina Satir. This was the book that introduced the final version of the family roles model of the alcoholic family which would bring Sharon Wegscheider fame. The roles were: the Enabler (the spouse), the Hero (the oldest child), the Scapegoat (the second child), the Lost Child (the third child), the Mascot (the fourth child), and the Dependent (the alcoholic). Sharon Wegscheider apparently decided that these roles existed based solely on observational evidence. Wegscheider conducted no scientific testing to confirm that such roles existed in a general way in families in which one member has an alcohol use disorder. Scientific studies using tools such as factor analysis have failed to confirm the existence of Sharon Wegscheider’s family roles. It appears that Sharon Wegscheider, like the rest of the chemical dependency movement, eschewed science and the scientific method and much preferred intuition and divine revelation. Of course, the more families she observed, the more she would have perceived the traits which she expected to exist. In the scholarly world this is known as confirmation bias. One reason that the scientific method was invented was to stop our minds from tricking us with things like confirmation bias.” https://lnkd.in/gemkf4cW

A Systematic Review of the Facilitators and Barriers to Help-Seeking for Self-Harm in Young People: A Systems Thinking Perspective https://lnkd.in/dkURKdHu

In this course, Dr. Constance West identifies the key social, cultural, economic, and political factors that affect court-involved youth and their families:

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As my co-founder, Adam Dreyfus said after reading this piece in The New Yorker - it is a "bit all over the place." I think it perfectly describes both this article and how ABA is delivered across the country. Two paragraphs jumped off the page and are two of the main reasons we exist: 1. "An idiosyncrasy of A.B.A. is that, often, the highly credentialled analyst is not the person directly providing service to the client; rather, the analyst supervises groups of lower-skilled behavior technicians. “The logic was that anybody could do A.B.A., and it can be cheap, because these are basic principles of behavior that you can use with a rat,” Catherine Lord, a professor at U.C.L.A. who studied under Lovaas as an undergraduate, told me. (“It’s not true,” she added.)" 2.  "(Parents)can enroll their child in an all-day A.B.A. center that is more than willing to accept their child, even if it’s not perfect,” Hammond said. “I hate that that would be the only option. But, if they’re not in that, they’re in nothing.”....“They don’t know where to turn for help.” The reason we exist is to get families in front of those highly credentialed analysts on a regular basis in an environment that is comfortable and more convenient than an all-day center. AnswersNow is the place where you can turn to for help. https://lnkd.in/eME8z252