Some Effects of Logo With Emotionally Disturbed Children

Music Therapy With Emotionally Disturbed Children

Music therapy is defined as "the prescribed use of music by a qualified person to effect positive changes in the psychological, physical, cognitive, or social functioning of individuals with health or educational problems" (American Music Therapy Association, 2003). While music therapy is closely aligned with the behavioral sciences, it is distinct in that it bridges art with science. Two publi...

Effects of friendship club activities on six emotionally disturbed children /

Policing the emotionally disturbed.

In New YorkCity from 1971 to 1975, only 1.6 per cent of all police firearms discharges involved the class of people police have since come to call emo tionally disturbed persons (EDPs). Still, because po lice were comparatively unrestrained in those years, the number of such incidents was quite large: 46, or better than 9 per year.1 In theyears since then, police shootings have declined dramati...

The progressive past of residential treatment of emotionally disturbed children.

In January 1949, 9-year-old Betty stepped through the doors of the Cincinnati Child Guidance Home. For the next 2 years, the Home would attempt to treat her severe emotional and behavioral problems in an experimental approach called residential treatment. After 4 years of child welfare and child guidance interventions, the Home was a last resort. Betty’s home life was a mess. When she was 3, he...

The effect of activity/environment on emotionally disturbed children.

Twenty-four children, from classes of emotionally disturbed children, were observed for behaviors of inattention, distractibility, and impulsivity. Each child was seen in either a distractive room or a distraction-free room while engaging in both a structured and an unstructured activity. The children seen in a distraction-free room displayed significantly less inattention (length of time off t...