Ripples

August 29, 2009

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Interesting links to partner content:
Humility for Success
A Failure of Scholarship
Summer Evening on the Delaware
The Peace of Wild Things
The 12-Step Program and 7 effective habits…
Intuition is more than a hunch

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False Memories

August 7, 2009

Studies continue to develop an understanding that memory can be more unreliable than expected. Sometimes false memories can be developed or even implanted intentionally. Especially interesting is the notion of the partial memory that researchers are able to embellish with incidents that did not occur. The implications of this research are wide ranging for [...]

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Walking the Walk

July 27, 2009

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One of the challenges we face as a leadership team is to resist the ever present option of seeking easy answers to complex problems.  This is especially true in instances where we run up against criticism or outright defamation.
The open-mindedness that a program of recovery espouses makes it important to sift [...]

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Ripples

July 21, 2009

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Some more interesting content has emerged across the Stepping Stone Partner Blogs:
Mike Argiros reported on a fire in Hancock New York.
In the Living Skills category at the Family Foundation School blog, a post on brain science and healthy mindedness.
An engaging story about learning to work with a dog at Eagle Valley Dogs.
…and on [...]

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Study links teen drinking and behavioral problems

July 19, 2009

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Shrink Wrap blog shares an interesting post concerning a study that links teen drinking to behavioral problems.
“Forty-three per cent of students who reported behavioral or other problems also reported having been drunk more than 10 times in their lives, while only 27 per cent of students who reported few or no [...]

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Study explores teen depression and television

July 17, 2009

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An recent article on US News and World Report explores an interesting study concerning teen depression and television usage:
“So, Brian Primack, a pediatrician at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who studies how teenagers’ use of media affects their health, analyzed survey data that followed 4,142 teenagers from 1995 to [...]

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Eagle Valley Dogs in the press

July 15, 2009

Eagle Valley Search Dogs was featured in the Times Herald Record for its work searching for the area around Stewart Airport for the missing body of Laura Garza.  The case has received national attention since Garza went missing this past winter.
Eagle Valley is a K-9 Search and Recue Team whose members are based in the [...]

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Ripples

July 14, 2009

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An array of interesting content continues to emerge across the Stepping Stone Partner blogs.  You are encouraged to click through to explore and participate in the conversations.
Mike Argiros shares his discovery of interesting references from Carl Jung and Vincent Norman Peale concerning the 12  Steps.
Brain Science and healthy mindedness are [...]

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Therapeutic Boarding Schools and Selection

July 11, 2009

Therapeutic boarding schools are but one of the many options for providing services to struggling teens.   There are community services, residential treatment centers, wilderness programs, and a variety of hybrids.  Discerning which placement would best suit the needs of a student can be a difficult and wearisome task.
At the Family Foundation School, we realize that [...]

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Meeting challenges new and old

July 10, 2009

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There are many pressures on organizations like ours that focus on serving struggling teens.  Cultivating a therapeutic milieu takes constant attention.  Attempting to close the academic gap for students like ours who often often arrive at therapeutic boarding schools behind in their studies demands a team [...]

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