Tag: behavior

Boundaries

Why are there boundaries?

Boundaries serve to delineate a difference – over here is Germany, over there is Poland. They serve to separate incompatible functions – on this side of the wall is Sales, on that side is Production (and dangerous equipment, pressurized gases, concentrated chemicals, high voltage electricity). And they serve to provide guidance / provide protection – if you go past the fence, the bull / deep ravine / toxic waste might get you. Valid boundaries are vital to your happiness / health / survival.

We went through, a generation back or two, a widespread rejection of boundaries – “tune in, turn on, drop out” in Leary’s phrase. Boundaries were seen as limiting, arbitrary, restrictive – as obstacles rather than protections. Boundaries kept people apart rather than kept people safe. Boundaries prevented free association instead of limiting contact between incompatible groups. Boundaries were bad.

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Attack on Teachers

Guest Post by Walter E. Williams

As the new school year begins, you might like to be updated on some school happenings that will no doubt be repeated this academic year. After this update, I have some questions one might ask the black leadership.

The ongoing and escalating assault on primary- and secondary-school teachers is not a pretty sight. Holly Houston is a post-traumatic stress specialist. She counsels teachers in Chicago public schools and reported, “Of the teachers that I have counseled over the years who have been assaulted, 100 percent of them have satisfied diagnostic criteria for PTSD.” It’s not just big-city schoolteachers traumatized. Dr. Darlyne Nemeth, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said last year, “I have treated many teachers with PTSD, and I am currently following a few of them.”

A Philadelphia seventh-grade girl with a history of incidents against her teacher sprayed perfume in the teacher’s face after telling her that she smelled “like old white pussy.” After telling her classmates “I’m about to kick this bitch’s white ass,” she shoved the teacher, knocking her to the floor. In 2014, a Philadelphia 68-year-old substitute teacher was knocked out cold by a student (http://tinyurl.com/orldslb). Earlier that year, two other teachers in the same school were assaulted. By the way, Philadelphia schools employ close to 400 school police officers.

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People with intellectual disabilities are being given antipsychotics

Hat tip Man With No Name

Difficult behavior causes doctors to turn to pills, illness or not.

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Both mental illnesses and intellectual disabilities can make it difficult for someone to function in society. But they’re distinct groups of problems, and the treatments you’d use for one simply won’t be effective for the other.

A new study suggests that doctors in the UK haven’t kept those facts in mind when writing prescriptions. The study found that antipsychotics were frequently being prescribed to those with intellectual disabilities, even if the patients had never been diagnosed with symptoms of a mental illness. Evidence suggests that this may have been done simply to deal with behavioral problems.

Intellectual disabilities interfere with a person’s ability to process information. While this would obviously interfere with academic achievement, it also limits a person’s ability to develop social and practical skills. As a result, you might expect some behavioral issues when these individuals interact with society at large.

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