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Leah KANALLY

7- Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, & Future of ADHD - 0 views

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    Title: Attention Deficit Disorder - An Introduction to ADD/ADHD Author(s):Regina Bussing, M.D. and John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Date Published:Jan 6, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: It gives a nice overview of what exactly ADHD (and also ADD) is, what symptoms there are and how to work with it. it also gives interesting facts about how long it may have been around, and how many people are diagnosed with it. How this Influenced my Thinking; This just gave me a few extra bits of information about ADHD and its history, i am already familiar with it, as i have a younger brother who was diagnosed with it. Credibility of Source: The authors have degrees, and it is on a credible website about many varying aspects of psychology.
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    Title: Attention Deficit Disorder Author: Regina Bussing and John M. Grohol Date Published: 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This article describes the different symptoms of ADHD, and the different subtypes of ADHD. How it Influenced my Thinking: I was really surprised by the number of children in america that have ADHD. It says on average one student in each classroom will have it. Credibility of Source: Seems like a very credible source.
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    Title: Attention Deficit Disorder: An Introduction to ADD/ADHD Author: Regina Bussing, M.D. and John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Date Published: Jan. 6, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This site grants a broad and detailed overview of many factors dealing with ADHD. How This Influenced My Thinking: The up-to-date research regarding the history, treatments, and causes of ADHD of this site have been illuminating and helpful. Credibility of Source: 7- Sources are cited at the bottom of articles, from credible sources.
Humberto Garcia Jr.

7-ADHD - 0 views

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    Title: Childhood ADHD Often Persist Into Adulthood Author: Megan Brooks Date:March 4, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: this article is relevant because it explains a lot about ADHD and how it can affect a child with ADHD into adulthood. How this influenced my thinking: This made me realize that ADHD could affect an dult to the point of suicide. Credibility:it came from WedMD and was recently published.
Angie Magallon

6-What is ADHD - 0 views

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    Title: What is ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)? Author: Multiple authors Date: n.d. Why relevant and summary: This article is relevant because it discusses what ADHD is. It talks about the types of ADHD and the symptoms. It also has a section where it discusses ADHD in adults, and what it is in adults. It also discusses what causes ADHD and how to determine if someone around you has ADHD. How this influenced my thinking: I know a lot more about ADHD. Credibility of Source: It seems credible it cites other soruces.
dezamj

RN Mental Health Nursing - 1 views

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    Title RN Mental Health Nursing: Author:ATI Date Published:2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Gave me great insight through a nursing perspective of the symptoms of ADHD How This Influenced My Thinking: great information on the condition known as ADHD as well as treatment. Credibility of Source: High
karina evdokimoff

6.ADHD - 0 views

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    title-ADHD author- multiple (its a governmental website) date-ND why relevant/summary-This site is relevant to my topic because it describes ADHD in a way that it easy to understand and break down. It discusses the 3 subtypes of adhd that i didnt even know existed. And it tells you what it used to treat it. how it influenced my thinking- This site influenced my thinking on what adhd is because before, i thought it was a straight forward disorder that people took medication for. But after visiting this site, i realized that there are different types, and it affects people differently. Not everyone is medicated for it, and many people go through life undiagnosed. credibility of source- credible since its a government website
Claudia Leon

4-ZPD Vygotsky and Rogoff - 0 views

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    Title: Zone of Proximal Development Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: It helped me understand the background of ZPD, its ideology and its motives. How This Influenced my Thinking: I was able to apply it to my life after reading this very clear article. Credibility of Source:It is just a website, but it matches up with other information
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    Title: Zone of Proximal Development Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2010, updated in 2012 Why relevant and summary: This article explains ZPD more depth. It gives an example of a college student using ZPD. This is very helpful especially if you don't understand the ZPD concept and if you're having trouble relating it to your life. How this influenced my thinking: This article definitely helped me have a better understanding of what ZPD is. I was having trouble relating to ZPD since the textbook mostly talks about children but in the article the author uses a college student as an example. Credibility of Source: I find this article credible, since it's from a Psychology organization
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    Title: Zone of Proximal Development Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Gives a good example of zone of proximal development and scaffolding. How this influenced my thinking: It showed me how important it is to have a good teacher that gives you the right tools to learn something. Credibility of source: Seem credible it came from a psychology website.
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    Title: Zone of Proximal Development Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Provides clear explanation of ZPD - made it much more clear to me compared to the book. How This Influenced My Thinking: made it clear to me what ZPD is. Credibility of Source: good - from a psychology organization.
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    Title: Zone of Proximal Development Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: It defines the zone of proximal development and it also gives several good examples. It gives the example of a girl learning to play tennis. Credibly of Source: It seems credible it cites other places and was recently updated in 2012.
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    author-Saul Mcleod date- 2012 why relevant/summary- This site is relevant in helping to better understand what is meant by Zone of proximal development, scaffolding, and cooperative teaching. It not only provides you with a definition of each term, but also gives you information on Vygotsky, and provides you with sample learning scenarios that help you to better understand his theory. how this influenced my thinking- This webpage gave me insight on what are good ways of teaching someone a new task. It helped me to better understand why a child would have trouble learning a new task, and what can be done to help them achieve their goal. credibility of source- credible with many sources
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    Title: ZPD Author:Saul McLeod Published:2010 Why Relevant and Summary: This article gave good terminology of the terms needed while writting the essay. How this influenced my thinking: Gave good examples and was clear which made it easier for me to understand Credibiliy: Good for basic knowledge
Claudia Leon

5-Temperament - 2 views

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    Title: Understanding Temperament in Infants and Toddlers Author: Lindsey T. Allard and Amy Hunter Date published: N.D. Why Relevant and Summary: This article gives a good description of the different temperaments and different parenting skills you could use based on the temperament. How this influenced my thinking: I used to think that there was only one way to parent and what worked for one child would work for all but this showed me that by understanding your child's temperament you can develop a much more effective way to parent. Credibility of source: Seems credible, a lot of references.
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    Title: Understanding Temperament in Infants and Toddlers Author: Lindsey T. Allard and Amy Hunter Date Published: October 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: This is a great one stop shop for everything temperment, well probably not everything. It covers the categories of temperment and goodness of fit. How This Influenced My Thinking: There were some fantastic parenting techniques that I wish I had known when I was raising my child Credibilty of Source: Very credible. Vanderbilt University site
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    Title: Understanding Temperament in Infants and Toddlers Author: Lindsey T. Allard and Amy Hunter Date Published: Oct. 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Discusses temperament in infants and children and the importance of considering temperament in a child. How This Influenced My Thinking: This article made me aware of my own temperament and personality style. Credibility of Source: High.
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    Title: Understanding Temperament in Infants and Toddlers Author: Lindsey T. Allard and Amy Hunter Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: This article is relevant because it defines temperament in a way that anyone without background information can understand it. As well it gives examples and defines what goodness-of-fit is. How This Influenced My Thinking: This article gave be better understanding of what temperament is and goodness-of-fit. The article also gave me understanding on how an environment can effect a infant or toddler's temperament. Credibility of Source: This material was developed by the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning with federal funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.
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    Title:Understanding Temperament in Infants and Toddlers Author: Lindsay T. Allard and Amy Hunter Published:2010 Why Relevant and summary:This article is detailed and has given credibility to the sources they got the information from. This is helpful when wanting to do more extensive research. I found this relevant because many of the prompt question could be answered from here How influenced my thinking: This influenced my thinking because i was not aware of the 'Goodness of Fit' Credibility: Good credibility
Tracy Pompeo

7-ADHD - 0 views

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    Title: ADHD Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Date Published: September 28, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: Gave good research and medication information How This Influenced My Thinking: Good explanation of this diagnosis Credibility of Source: Very credible
Lolo Miller

6-ADHD & Causes, incidence, and risk factors - 0 views

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    Title: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Author: Timothy Rogge Date Published: 03-25-2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This article explains the causes, risk factors, symptoms, signs and tests, treatment, expectations, health care provider, and prevention. ADHD is most common in children and those children can cause a lot of chaos. How This Influenced My Thinking: I learned more about ADHD which helped me think about how those with ADHD act and feel. Credibility of Source: 5 because it is very detailed.
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    Title: Causes, incidence, and risk factors of ADHD Author: A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia Date Published: March 25, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This article tells you everything you need to know about ADHD including symptoms, signs, tests, treatment, and medications. It also gives important statistics about kids and how often they are diagnosed with this disease. How This Influenced My Thinking: This article got me thinking about children with ADHD and how much more common it is these days. Also I learned that this disease could start as soon as the brain begins developing which was very surprising. Credibility of Source: This article contains references to give credit to all the facts regarding ADHD and it has also been reviewed by numerous MD's.
Tara Ponsot

4-Nature, Nurture and Attention Deficit - 0 views

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    Title: Nature, Nurture and Attention Deficit Author: ALIYAH BARUCHIN Date Published: 3/12/08 Why Relevant and Summary: I was curious about whether nature or nurture is responsible for ADHD. This article was an interview with Susan Smalley, Ph.D., is a professor in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and director of its Mindful Awareness Research Center. How this influenced my thinking: I was fascinated to find out about some of the environmental factors that show increased lecels of ADHD. Credibility: I'm on the fence. The doctor seems credible, but I am not sure about the writer.
Taylor Robinson

6 - Tom Cruise Interview - 0 views

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    Title: "I'm Passionate About Life" Author: Matt Lauer Interviews Tom Cruise Date Published: June 25, 2005 Why Relevant and Summary: This interview looked at the criticism for medication for ADHD. Tom Cruise gave his reasoning on why he thought meds were bad and it related to the ADHD and culture portion of the short writing assignment. How This Influenced My Thinking: This gave insight on the opposing side to meds. Credibility of Source: It was an interview so I don't think he could lie about his opinion!
Marisa Rodriguez

6-ADHD - 0 views

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    Title: ADHD Author: Nemours Date Published: 2013 Why Relevant and Summary: It defines ADHD, causes, and symptoms. How This Influenced My Thinking: I learned the symptoms and signs of ADHD. Credibility of Source: Seems credible because it is a foundation and has medical background.
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    Title: ADHD Author : Richard Kingsley Date: January 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: Complete overview of ADHD, causes, how to manage it, and tips on dealing with it. How This Influenced My Thinking: I feel like I can better recognize signs of ADHD after reading this Credibility of Source: credible-from kidshealth.org, I have found them to be very credible with their information.
derpina

Adults With ADHD: What Do We Know? What Do They Need? - YouTube - 0 views

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    Title: Adults With ADHD: What Do We Know? What Do They Need? Author: TVO Parents Date Published: October 8 2009 Why relevant and summary: Great information about ADHD and interviews of people with ADHD How this influenced my thinking: I have never been "officially" diagnosed with ADHD but I have always struggled with attention, organization and time management. This resource gave me some great information on finding other resources available. Credibility of source: Very credible resource. Cites other sources and experts who contributed to the show.
lindsey holloway

Attachment Theory - 1 views

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    Title: Attachment Theory Author: Saul McLeod Published: 2009 Why Relevant: It's a pretty thorough overview of attachment theory and its theorists. How It Influenced My Thinking: It cleared up some concepts that our text book didn't get deep enough into. Credibility of Source:Simply Psychology, author used plenty of references
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    Title: Attachment Theory Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2009 Why Relevant and Summary: Discusses John Bowlby's attachment theory. It goes through stages of attachment and breaks it down by age. It also refers to the two main theories of attachment (not just Bowlby's) and discusses a older study done on monkeys regarding attachment. How This Influenced My Thinking: It emphasized an important point for me, which was "attachments were most likely to form with those who responded accurately to the baby's signals, not the person they spent most time with." Credibility of Source: High
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    Title: Attachment Thoery Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2009 Why Relevant and Summary: This is relevant because of what it has to say about attachment theory. A huge focus is on Bowlby and what he brought to the table in the discussion of the importance of attachment in human development. How This Influenced my Thinking: It just through out facts that I was able to think about to further my knowledge of attachment theory. Credibility of Source: Uses numerous sources
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    Title: Attachment Theory Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2009 Why Relevant and Summary: this webpage gives a good look at the attachment theory and how it applies to people. It also walks through the different stages of attachment and where children are at in different points in their lives How This Influenced My Thinking: I felt like it gave a little more information and helped to clear some things up that I was wondering about in the textbook. Credibility of Source: pretty good, well written and well cited information in the article.
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    Title: Attachment Theory Author: Saul McLeod Date published: 2009 Why Relevant and Summary: This article describes the theory of attachment well and the different stages of attachment. How this influenced my thinking: I found it very interesting that Bowlby thought that there is a link between separations with the mom at an early age and maladjustments later on. Credibility of Source: It is from the simply psychology website, seems credible.
Yadira Quiroz

ADHD - 0 views

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    Title:ADHD Author: Richard S. Kingsley, MD Date Published: January 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: This article gives a nice explanation on what ADHD is and what the causes are. It also gives an insight on how people who are diagnosed with ADHD act in different settings. How This Influenced My Thinking: This article definitely made my knowledge of ADHD a lot broader. Credibility of Source: This article seems to be credible.
Loni Marcus

What Is ADHD? Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: What You Need to Know - 0 views

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    Title: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:/what is ADHD? Author:None Date Published:2005-20132 Why Relevant and Summary:It gives a good to the point outline of ADHD. How This Influenced My Thinking:It taught me more about adult ADHD then I previously knew. Credibility of Source:
Roxi91 Roxi91

7- Examples and definitions of Piaget's Theory - 0 views

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    Title: Piaget's Theory Author: Colorado.edu Date Published: N.D. Why Relevant and Summary: This website discusses Piagets theory on cognitive development and gives wonderful examples to help elaborate the meanings. How This Influenced My Thinking: These website gave me a clearer understanding as to what Piaget's theory was and how I can correlate it with my writing assignment about how it's proven that children are not just smaller versions of adults. Credibility of Source: Article poted in a educational website ( .edu)
Amanda Perez

7. ADHD... Are meds necessary or are you a lazy parent? - 0 views

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    Title: Are meds necessary or are you a lazy parent? Author: Kori Ellis Date Published: April 3, 2012 Why relevant/summary: This article gives a great explanation of what ADHD is, how to treat it as well as a look at the over diagnosis of the disorder. How did this influence my thinking?: This article makes clear many aspects of ADHD that I had not thought of or known about prior to reading it. Source Credibility: Very credible. Not only did the author include relevant personal opinions but included many citations from medical professionals in many different fields of medicine.
Badfish Two

6-Parenting Tips > Raise Great Kids; Social Intelligence for Toddlers - 1 views

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    Title: Social Intelligence for Toddlers Author: Dr. Laura Markham Date Published: n.d. Why Relevant and Summary: This site is relevant because it gives tips on how to handle toddlers in social interactions, and how to help them interact well with others, and understand to not only understand their own emotions, but the emotions of others as well. How this Influenced my Thinking: This showed me just how important it is to communicate with children about their feelings, and how to help them understand them. It showed me it is important to be calm and discuss what is going on, instead of simply reacting to a situation. Credibility of Source: Degree aquired by author, found on ahaparenting.com, a website for parent to seek helpful and beneficial tips and lessons on raising kids.
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    Title: Social Intelligence of Toddlers Author: Dr. Laura Markham Date: ND Why Relevant and Summary: This article lists ways to help your child develop social skills through social interactions with others. How This Influenced My Thinking: This articles identified the importance of communicating and intervening with your child to help develop social skills and the importance of knowing how your child feels, and helping your child understand other peoples feelings. Credibility of Source: The author is a doctor.
Badfish Two

6- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - 0 views

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    Title: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Author : N/A Last reviewed: Reviewed last on: 12/31/2010 Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network by Steven D. Ehrlich, NMD Why Relevant and Summary: This article gives a good overview of ADHD, signs and symptoms, treatment and provides research about how ADHD affects the brain and the treatments that can be provided to diagnosed individuals. How This Influenced My Thinking: It makes me think that ADHD is way more common than I realized. Credibility of Source :It is a credible source- it comes from The University of Maryland Medical Center. Has many repitable sources listed.
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