Raising Assertive Kids Assertiveness isn’t necessarily innate. While it might come naturally to some people, it’s largely a skill -- and an important one at ...
How To Raise a Child of Character How many of you think there are many children that struggle with communicating their needs, thoughts and feelings with ...
OCD and College Accommodations An interesting article recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal. “A Serious Illness or an Excuse” is worth reading and talks about ...
Texting, Sexting… What’s Next? A mother with her three teenage daughters sat in my office the other day. Two of the girls were there for sick ...
Does Facebook Help Students Adapt to College? Recent psychological research suggests that social networking can help university students feel supported in their first few weeks at school. Investigating the possibility, ...
How to Find a Fulfilling Career Path Finding a fulfilling career can seem like a dream, especially if you’re currently miserable at your job. You might have ...
Questions Kids Ask About ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a fairly common mental health concern among children and teenagers today. It is readily treated by medications, psychotherapy, or a combination of the two. Here are some commonly asked ...
Courage and Limits with Your Teen This column uses a story based on a real-life situation in therapy to represent both the teen and parent viewpoints on ...
It’s Halloween: Recognizing Our Shadow Side “From ghoulies and ghosties and
long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, good Lord, deliver us!”
~ An old ...
OCD and ADHD: Is There a Connection? By the end of his freshman year in college, my son Dan’s obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was so severe that he ...
Learning from Resilient Kids In 1955, researchers Emmy Werner (University of California, Davis) and Ruth Smith (licensed psychologist, Kauai) began a longitudinal study that followed all of ...
College Life: Freshman Friends Perhaps it has already happened to you.
In the first week or two of school, you quickly made a group out of the ...
Runaway Mind: My Own Race with Bipolar Disorder Runaway Mind by Maggie Reese was a thoroughly enjoyable, engaging and educational book filled with firsthand accounts of what life can be like with bipolar disorder. Maggie invites us into her life during this very ...
Understanding Recovery Avoidance in OCD Dan would sit in a chair for hours, “stuck” and unable to move. He couldn’t eat, socialize, or enter most buildings. My ...
Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Mainstream Classroom Barbara Borosonʼs Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Mainstream Classroom: How to Reach and Teach Students with ASDs is an engaging, thoughtful and valuable resource for instructors, parents and administrators that enable them to reach, understand ...
When You’re the New Kid in School “So what’s your name new kid in school
tell me something do you feel lonely “
-- Song lyrics by The Donnas
Here comes September. You’ve been bracing yourself all summer. Here it is, the middle of your ...
Mistaken for ADHD After reading this book I believe the title says it all: “Mistaken for ADHD.” The author, Dr. Frank Barnhill, attempts to help parents, teachers, social workers and doctors who deal with adolescents and young children ...
