Word: psychologists
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Other child-development experts concur with Norton's findings. Many poor children, they note, are mystified by the "time-slotted" school environment, where crayons are often taken away before the picture is finished because it is juice time. Says clinical psychologist Jeree Pawl, director of the Infant- Parent Program at San Francisco General Hospital: "The structured situation makes them feel powerless. It feels arbitrary, senseless and imposed because at home there is no predictability and rigidity." Confused youngsters may withdraw or rebel, prompting some teachers to peg these children as troublemakers or slow learners...
...final interview, conducted by California psychologist and radio evangelist James Dobson, Bundy tearfully cited the media as a source of his dementia. Perhaps playing to his inquisitor, a member of the 1986 federal pornography commission, Bundy said, "Those of us who are . . . so much influenced by violence in the media, in particular pornographic violence, are not some kind of inherent monsters. We are your sons, and we are your husbands, and we grew up in regular families...
...reason is that women feel especially vulnerable to violent crime -- often with good reason. Carol Kolen, a Chicago psychologist, was attacked several years ago at the University of Illinois Medical Center by two men, one carrying a gun, she fought off a rape but was severely beaten. Then, on a Saturday morning last year, she was attacked again as she approached her car parked outside a neighborhood church. "After that I said, 'That's it, no more.' I made the decision then and there that my protection was in my own hands." Kolen bought a gun and is going...
...that comfortable assumption is being challenged. Based on an unprecedented long-term study of the effects of divorce, psychologist Judith Wallerstein has found that a disturbingly large number of youngsters are suffering the consequences many years after the family breakup. Says Wallerstein, director of the Center for the Family in Transition in Corte Madera, Calif.: "Almost half of children of divorces enter adulthood as worried, underachieving, self-deprecating and sometimes angry young men and women...
Wallerstein's report has had mixed reviews from other researchers. Many do not believe that enduring damage from divorce is as pervasive as she indicates. Says psychologist Jo Anne Pedro-Carroll of the University of Rochester in New York: "It would be a disservice to families who have adjusted to the changes in their lives to suggest that there will inevitably be long-term trauma for all children." Experts point out that the study involved a small number of families and that there was no group of intact families to provide a statistical comparison. They note also that children tend...