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Psychologists in Public Education: Helping Your Child Become a Success in School
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Psychologists play a critical role in the identification and placement of students with disabilities in special education programs throughout the nation.
What Can You Do To Stop School Bullying?
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A pervasive problem that has been receiving a great deal of attention involves the increase in school violence. One type of school violence is referred to as bullying, which is defined as student on student harassment.
Asperger's Syndrome: May Have It's Benefits
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Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) includes a range of developmental disabilities that vary in three critical areas: social, language, and cognitive abilities.
A Brief History of Special Education in the U.S.
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It is particularly poignant for me to provide a retrospective on special education because when I was a child, there were no special education programs in public schools.
Therapy: Does it work and what exactly is it?
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The research clearly shows that talk therapy works in treating a wide variety of problems and disorders.
Childhood Disorders
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These disorders are very common, with approximately 1 in 5 children meeting criteria for a diagnosis.
Cognitive Therapy
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The goal of Cognitive Therapy is to change the way we think. If we think differently about situations and in a more accurate way, then we will feel and react to them differently.
Autism: On the Forefront of Clinical Practice
by Ellenmorris Tiegerman-Farber Ph.D., LMSW, MS, M.Phil.
Language development is the most important prognostic indicator of later social, educational and academic progress.
Relationships
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We all experience problems in our relationships at some point in our lives, and relationship difficulties are one of the major reasons that individuals seek psychotherapy.
Relationship Problems, Women, Men, Family therapy, Marital therapy, Marital relationship problems
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Autism and Asperger Syndrome
by Ellenmorris Tiegerman-Farber Ph.D., LMSW, MS, M.Phil.
Speech language pathologists will work directly on developing a range of pragmatic functions and expanding the childs semantic abilities.
End of Life Discussions: Conversations Before the Crisis
We need not wait for a tragedy before anticipating what rational decisions will need to be made in time of crisis. We must have the conversation before the crisis.
Bereavement, Anxiety, Depression, Generalized Anxiety (GAD), Panic Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress (PTSD), Stress, Separation Anxiety Disorder
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Recognition of early warning signs is crucial in addressing issues at home or school before they grow in severity, leading to significant social, academic and interpersonal problems.
Tourette Syndrome: Phenomenology, Assessment and Treatment
For children who are falling behind in school, psychoeducational evaluation could be considered to examine areas of strengths and weaknesses in various academic domains.
What is Real Love?
Sometimes its easier to settle for the illusion--to create fantasy relationships that may have the outward signs of being the real thing, but which lack the joys--and the tensions-- of real love.
Marital relationship problems, Relationship Problems, Women, Men, Marital therapy
Middle Aged Baby Boomers and Addiction
Addiction is the only disease that tells them in the most insidious of ways, 'I dont have a problem or disease.'
Mood Disorders
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Depressive Disorders are common, affecting 1 in 10 people in the United States, These disorders also most frequently occur among young and middle-aged people.
Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality, Dementia, Depression
Personality Disorders
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Personality Disorders are long-lasting problems that a person has experienced almost his or her entire life, usually beginning in adolescence or early adulthood. Personality Disorders affect about 10% to 13% of people.
Antisocial Personality, Borderline Personality, Dependent Personality, Schizophrenia
Substance Abuse
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Researchers suggest that there may be a genetic predisposition to substance dependence and abuse.
Understanding and Treating Anger in Clinical Practice
by Howard Kassinove Ph.D., ABPP
Overall, in a well adjusted person, anger is felt infrequently, is moderate in intensity, and does not endure. Anger becomes problematic when it occurs often and in response to many different triggers, when it is intense and disruptive to thinking or behaving, and when it endures because of ruminative thoughts.
Premenstrual Cravings Can Be Tamed!
...even women whose eating patterns are usually normal will notice over the top cravings during the week or so before their periods.
Understanding Parents of Children with Disabilities
by Ellenmorris Tiegerman-Farber Ph.D., LMSW, MS, M.Phil.
Over time, parents describe a sense of peace that comes with acceptance of the child. Parents reflect on the fact that having a child with disabilities shatters the expectations of normalcy and life cycle transitions.
Sexual Dysfunctions
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Sexual Dysfunctions are very common to both women and men. As much as 18% of men and 33% of women are affected.
Sexual Dysfunction, Relationship Problems, Men, Women, Marital relationship problems
Impulse Control Disorders
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The inability to control impulses like this often end up doing things that harm themselves or others.
