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#64 Greg Walton: The Big Impact of Small Interventions

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Psychologically Wise Interventions Reduce Child Abuse

Social workers would ask mothers why they were having problems with their children. They asked, could it be something else? Until the mother came up with a pragmatic way of thinking about the problem. This exercise dramatically reduced the rates of he called harsh parenting within the first year of life. The sensea was too good to be true for many people who think that big interventions are needed in order to make real progress on society's problems.

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