BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: A PRACTICE IN SEARCH OF A SCIENCE

Behavior and Social Issues;  October 1, 2006 ;   Wyatt, W Joseph; Midkiff, Donna M;   787 words ...ABSTRACT: The rise of the biological causation model in the past thirty...compelling evidence for biological causation of most mental and behavioral...paradigm shift away from biological causation and toward environmental...

THE EVENING NEWS AND THE BEHAVIORAL BLUES: COMMENTS ON JOSEPH WYATT AND...

Behavior and Social Issues;  October 1, 2006 ;   Harshbarger, Dwight;   787 words ......joined the fray, the battle turned. Biological causation, drug companies asserted in media...relative importance of genetics and biological causation due to the appearance of psychiatric...problems that significantly weaken biological causation conclusions based on these studies...

SIX-TO-ONE GETS THE JOB DONE: COMMENTS ON THE REVIEWS

Behavior and Social Issues;  October 1, 2006 ;   Wyatt, W Joseph; Midkiff, Donna M;   787 words ......our central theses-that the research said to support biological causation of mental disorders is relatively weak, and that the...Mitchell (2006) felt challenged to review the acceptance of biological causation that he had acquired over the years. Thus, we have succeeded...

APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS: NICHE THERAPY PAR EXCELLANCE

Behavior and Social Issues;  October 1, 2006 ;   Rakos, Richard F;   787 words ......pharmaceutical industry converge in the promotion and dominance of a biological causation model of mental illness. They call "for a paradigm shift, away from extreme biological causation and toward an environmental causation model" (p. 147). Yet...

Parents queue for 'safe' jabs as fears grow

The Scotsman;  January 22, 2001 ;   Alan Crawford;   660 words ......fears over the riple vaccine, Now Professor Wakefield says he has discovered almost 170...and is now autistic',' he said. Professor Wakefield first raised fears fears over MMR...vaccinations," he said. He said Professor Wakefield's work did not pull any punches...

IS BEHAVIORISM BECOMING A PSEUDOSCIENCE? REPLIES TO DRS. WYATT, MIDKIFF...

Behavior and Social Issues;  October 1, 2007 ;   Wakefield, Jerome C;   787 words ......psychiatry, philosophy of science, harmful dysfunction, biological causation, pharmaceutical industry, psychotropic medications In...that "it is time for a paradigm shift, away from extreme biological causation and toward an environmental causation model..." (p. 147...

MMR's minute risk

The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 28, 2001 ;     266 words ......German measles contracted in pregnancy by their mothers. Professor Wakefield appears to pay no attention to the recent report from...grandchildren - immunised. In raising doubts about this vaccine Professor Wakefield is doing children in this country a significant disservice...

Top evangelical sparks furor with gay-baby article

Daily Breeze;  March 15, 2007 ;   David Crary THE ASSOCIATED PRESS;   189 words ......irked many fellow conservatives with an article earlier this month saying scientific research "points to some level of biological causation" for homosexuality. Proof of a biological basis would challenge the belief of many conservative Christians that homosexuality...

Biological basis for being gay?

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 16, 2007 ;   DAVID CRARY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS;   787 words ......irked many fellow conservatives with an article earlier this month saying scientific research "points to some level of biological causation" for homosexuality. Proof of a biological basis would challenge the belief of many conservative Christians that homosexuality...

The Wisconsin State Journal Bill Wineke column: Exploring the gay baby...

WI State Journal (Madison, WI);  March 30, 2007 ;     494 words ......direction. Research into the sexual orientation of sheep and other animals, as well as human studies, points to some level of biological causation for sexual orientation in at least some individuals, Mohler wrote. He also made a distinction between orientation and...

IS BEHAVIORISM BECOMING A PSEUDO-SCIENCE?: POWER VERSUS SCIENTIFIC...

Behavior and Social Issues;  October 1, 2006 ;   Wakefield, Jerome C;   787 words ......schizophrenia, mental disorder, history of psychology, history of psychiatry, philosophy of science, harmful dysfunction, biological causation; pharmaceutical industry; psychotropic medications After a period of provocative research on token economies in the treatment...

Family approaches to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A review to...

Children & Schools;  January 1, 2003 ;   Thomas, Cecilia; Corcoran, Jacqueline;   787 words ......reader is directed to reviews found elsewhere in the literature (for example, Barkley, 1998; Cantwell, 1996). In line with biological causation, medical approaches to ADHD have proven most effective. The psychostimulant methylphenidate (also known as Ritalin) is...

Family's Expressed Emotion to Returning Citizen Soldiers

Military Medicine;  July 1, 2008 ;   Rabstejnek, Carl V;   787 words ......schizophrenia. Advances in psychopharmacology enabled mental hospitals to shrink in size and academics to hypothesize biological causation theories. Thorazine's physiological action fostered research into the dopamine hypothesis. The resultant decreasing of...

EXPLORING THE GAY BABY QUESTION.(DAYBREAK)(WILLIAM WINEKE)(Column)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  March 31, 2007 ;     461 words ......direction. Research into the sexual orientation of sheep and other animals, as well as human studies, points to some level of biological causation for sexual orientation in at least some individuals, Mohler wrote. He also made a distinction between orientation and...

Outdated practitioner views about family culpability and severe mental...

Social Work;  September 1, 1998 ;   Rubin, Allen Cardenas, Jose Warren, Keith Pike, Cathy King Wambach, Kathryn;   787 words ......termed family psychoeducation - provide families with support, educate them about the disorder in a way that identifies biological causation and alleviates their sense of guilt or shame, foster the development of their social support network, and train them...