Random Intervention Podcasts

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. Through powerful stories of recovery, expert interviews and relevant musings, families can learn just how influential love and understanding can be to get their loved ones to stop their addictive behavior and willingly accept help.

Categories: Education, Health & Fitness

Tags: addiction, family, health, Intervention, Psychology

What happens if children aren’t making progress with language and literacy, and what sort of learning impairments might be the cause? How can the study of children’s thinking help us to understand these learning difficulties? This album offers insights into some of the problems faced by children with the developmental disorders dyslexia, poor comprehension and specific language impairment. In the main audio tracks, educators, therapists and researchers explore why children might have language and literacy difficulties, and how schools can work with psychologists to help these children develop key language and literacy skills. The interviews are introduced and contextualised by Professor David Messer of The Open University. The material forms part of The Open University course ED841 Understanding children’s development and learning.

Categories: Education

Tags: comprehension, disorder, Intervention, literacy, Reading, teacher, teaching, teaching-assistant

In his study of causation J. L. Mackie once referred back to David Hume, who listed causation among one of the principles that are TO US THE CEMENT OF THE UNIVERSE and thus OF VAST CONSEQUENCE IN THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN NATURE (David Hume, AN ABSTRACT OF A “TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE”). Yet for example the early endeavours of the developers of the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) framework, which aimed at embedding causal meaning into the formal treatment, seem to be neglected, and David Lewis’ counterfactual analysis of causation based on his possible worlds semantics does not come very handy for application. As Judea Pearl summarises: WE ARE WITNESSING ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE CIRCLES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: CAUSALITY IN SEARCH OF A LANGUAGE AND, SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE LANGUAGE OF CAUSALITY IN SEARCH OF ITS MEANING (Judea Pearl, CAUSALITY, 2000). Borrowing mathematical rigour from statistics, one of the most prominent areas of causal modelling today sounds out the interaction of probabilistic and deterministic approaches and is centred around Bayesian Networks, through which causal notions can be identified concretely and utilised for various disciplines eventually.

Categories: Uncategorised

Tags: Bayes, Causality, Causation, cause, deterministic, effect, Epistemology, Intervention, Judea Pearl, network, prediction, probabilistic

“Answers Network” radio show was born out of a desire to help guide parents and adolescent services industry professionals alike to professional resources as they face critical moments with their children and/or clients. The show addresses issues such as locating your runaway teen, family crisis intervention, building self esteem, dealing with addictions, international parental abduction and the many of the “everyday” concerns of parents and teens. We will also introduce you to specialized schools and treatment programs that can really help. “Answers Network” radio show brings you answers and options to raising children today and in our constantly changing future. Listen to “Answers Network” Mondays at 11 AM Pacific Time on the LATalkRadio.com to discuss ways to help you navigate through the many challenges of family life.

Categories: Business, Kids & Family

Tags: addictions, Answers for the Family, challenges, crisis, family, family show, Guidance, Intervention, Kids, parental abduction, Resources, runaway teen, self esteem, teens, troubled teens