Keyword: nature vs nurture

Nature Versus Nurture in Parenting September 7, 2010

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Stephanie D'Ambra

Can good parenting overcome bad genes? Armand DiMele and Stephanie D’Ambra, LCSW, dig into the nature versus nurture debate through real cases: a mother baffled by her troubled teen, a neuroscientist who carries a psychopath’s genetic profile yet lives normally, and callers including an adoptee who found her musical gift written in her DNA.

Why Patterns Keep Repeating September 8, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele

Why do the same traps keep springing? Armand DiMele works through the nature-versus-nurture debate, chromosome alleles, and childhood nurturance to explain why personality patterns persist, then takes calls to show listeners how their judgments of others reveal their own wounds and fears.