Building upon decades of research with the lifelong (nine-decade) Terman Life Cycle Study, we present a life pathway model for understanding human thriving that accounts for long-term individual difference in health and longevity, with a particular focus on child personality and adult social relationships. Developing data derived and supplemented from the Terman study (N = 570 males, 451 female...

It is good for people to flourish. But does the state have authority promote flourishing of its citizens? Some political philosophers—perfectionists—hold that it does.1 For perfectionists, has pursue policies meant citizens, and appropriate state, or officials, take considerations about what will into account when exercising their authority. Traditionally fact a policy citizens may legitimate s...

BACKGROUND Adolescent mental health is characterized by relatively high rates of psychiatric disorders and low levels of help-seeking behaviors. Existing mental health programs aimed at addressing these issues in adolescents have repeated inconsistent results. Such programs have generally been based on techniques derived from cognitive behavioral therapy, which may not be ideally suited to earl...

This paper challenges Alasdair MacIntyre's assertion that the modern firm such as Google, Unilever, or Microsoft is inimical to human flourishing within an Aristotelian framework. The paper begins by questioning MacIntyre's rendering ofutopian communities. It then addresses four specific criticisms ofthe modern firm to be found throughout MacIntyre's oeuvre, namely compartmentalisation, myopia,...

the city to mark the sesquicentennial anniversary of its inception as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834, Professor Duffy was the obvious choice as its author. A history of any American medical school with old roots can be useful as a case study ofhow nineteenth-century proprietary schools with tiny, part-time faculties were transformed into massive, university-based centres for medical r...

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have both signed the 2006 UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities a number acts policies which support inclusive education for children disabilities. However, achieving goals equitable at all levels remains challenge, especially autistic children. This article reports experiences mothers from in trying to find schools or autism centres their adolescent sons...