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According to Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, director of the Media Center and professor of clinical psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the grant will allow the Baker Center to raise additional funds to get Willoughby's Wonders on the air as a series...
...addition to Adatto, the panel at the ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government included moderator Michael J. Sandel, professor of government; Alvin F. Poussaint, a Harvard Medical School clinical professor of psychiatry, and Bill Kovach, a former journalist and the curator of the Nieman Foundation...
Professing his agreement with Adatto, Poussaint discussed the increasing objectification of children in the media as a symbol of changes elsewhere in society...
...their viewers. Each episode usually imparts a specific lesson, whether it be about friendship or lying or sibling rivalry or the risk of going down the drain with the bathwater. Psychologists and educators serve as consultants (this has become a small industry) and review scripts closely. Harvard psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint advises a syndicated show called The Crayon Box and says he once objected to the phrase "independent strong-willed woman" because he thought that, in the context, it came across as something negative. The words were taken...
...Poussaint said that AIDS is the leading cause of death among African Americans aged 25 to 44, claiming twice as many victims as the next biggest killer...