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VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino Talks About the Advantages of Predictability, Regardless of the Situation

…an exerpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino. Dr. James Garbarino talks about how predicting behavior in others is advantageous – and how irrational behavior can be hard to respond to. Dr. James Garbarino: I think whether it’s children or dogs, predictability generally is an asset in people’s relationships. That people can accommodate to a lot, if at least they know it’s predictable. If you know that your mother is cra…

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VIDEO: Dr James Garbarino on ‘The Psychologically Battered Child’

…an excerpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino. Dr. James Garbarino talks about his motivations for writing the book, The Psychologically Battered Child. Dr. James Garbarino: I can give you two versions of how The Psychologically Battered Child came into existence. One is the version that I was aware of at the time which is that I had sort of taken on this issue of child abuse and was trying to deal with all of its vario…

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VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino on Connection Between Violent Men and Childhood Trauma

…an excerpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino. Dr. James Garbarino talks about how traumatic childhood experiences influence men’s actions as they grow. Dr. James Garbarino: I do a lot of work with men on death row and murder cases and imprisoned men. I’ve come to see them mostly as untreated, traumatized children often inhabiting the bodies of very scary men. And one thing that makes them so scary is their unconsciousn…

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VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino Discusses Promoting Resilience in Boys

…an excerpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino. Dr. James Garbarino talks about promoting resilience in boys based on their individual characteristics and temperament, and counter-socialization. Dr. James Garbarino: I think if a parent was setting out to instill resilience in a boy, they could think about some of this research on androgyny. They could even do what you might call sort of counter-socialization. You can go…

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VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino talks about Raising Children in Proximity to Modern Day “Social Toxins”

…rpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino. VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino describes some differences in parenting in the 1950s versus today, specifically the challenges in modern media and exposure. Dr. James Garbarino: I think there’s a range of things that you might call “social toxins” that make raising children more difficult than it used to be. For example, the 1950’s, when I was a child, were a time of obliviousness. The…

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VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino Offers Practical and Insightful Guidelines for Parenting

…an excerpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino. Dr. James Garbarino advises tips on raising self-disclosing adolescents. Dr. James Garbarino: Well, I think at one level, there are some preventive things. There’s some research on adolescents – parents’ awareness of adolescents’ actual experiences. And the finding naturally was that adolescents who disclose to parents are the parents who know. But the developmental finding…

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VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino talks about the Parental Influence on a Child’s Sense of Self

…an excerpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino. Dr. James Garbarino talks about encouraging children to enjoy life through their own accomplishments. Dr. James Garbarino: I think it’s important that parents have a sense that who they are will have some impact on who the children think the children are and what the children want to be. I don’t think it has to be at the level of concrete demonstration. You don’t have to be…

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VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino Talks About the Impact of the Secrecy that is Common Among Adolescent Girls in our Society

…an exerpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino. Dr. James Garbarino talks about a common communication gap between adolescent girls and their parents. Dr. James Garbarino: I think one of the common themes in the lives of girls who get hurt by peers is this code of silence. You know, there’s a book called Saving Beauty from the Beast. It was written by two women, two mothers, both of whose daughters were murdered by their…

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VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino on Traumatic Memories

…an excerpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino. Dr. James Garbarino explores the idea that traumatic memories do not spontaneously decay. Dr. James Garbarino: I think there are probably many origins on the influence of parents on children. Some of it is the simple genetic influence that there’s some correlation between parental temperament and child temperament simply on the basis genetic predispositions. I think a lot o…

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VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino Talks About how his Personal Life has Influenced his Professional Choices

…an excerpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino. Dr. James Garbarino on how his personal experiences from childhood helped him realize where to grow professionally. Dr. James Garbarino: As an undergraduate I was a major in History and Political Philosophy, actually started in graduate school in the political philosophy program at Cornell. But I’d always had a sort of hobby interest in children. I’d been a camp counselor,…

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