Sometimes it is easy to deduce what led someone to commit a crime. In other cases, the reasons are much less clear. Did something happen earlier in these people’s lives that we simply don’t know about, or are their brains hardwired for criminal activity?
Read the full story »Kids will be kids. We’ve been saying it for years, sometimes as an explanation for actions that defy adult understanding, occasionally to dismiss or downplay the need for personal accountability, and to convince ourselves that the sometimes-alarming behavior we witness in the young people around us is “normal.”
It’s a scene guaranteed to set hearts racing, hands trembling, and blood pressure soaring—a worst-nightmare-come-true setting that has already lasted several hours too many.
The changing world we live in today requires not only new skills, but a new way of thinking. A struggling economy and increased global competition are just some of the factors accelerating the need for a more innovative, interdisciplinary approach to addressing economic, social, political, and personal challenges.
Dr. Jill Biden, second lady of the United States, visited The Chicago School’s Chicago Campus June 16, meeting with representatives of the Illinois National Guard, The Chicago School, and the community to discuss the emotional and psychological impact that military deployment has on armed services personnel and their families.
To his parish in the Hispanic Chicago neighborhood of West Humboldt Park, he is known as Father Tom. But to patients at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where he works with cancer and AIDS patients as coordinator of the Supportive Care Program, he goes by Doctor Tom.
The different monikers underscore the dual roles that the Rev. Dr. Thomas N. Pelton balances as a priest and psychologist.