Tuesday, May 31, 2011

President Obama, Parenting and Personal Responsibility

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When President Obama was interviewed on 60 Minutes following the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, he compared the wait while the Nav...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Continuing Medical Education (CME) Cost and Over-Reliance on Psychiatric Drugs for Children: A Possible Link

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On the day I began to formulate the idea for this piece, I received an email announcing a continuing medical education (CME) course in psych...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Helping a Traumatized Child: A Hopeful Follow-Up

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I live in a small town, so I often have the opportunity to get follow-up on the children I cared for in my previous job. Walking down the st...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

Preserve Important Childhood Trauma Treatment Program

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In a powerful recent New York Times op ed, Post-Traumatic Childhood , leading trauma researcher Bessel van der Kolk writes about the possib...
Sunday, May 8, 2011

Supporting Successful Communication Between Parent and Child

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Recently, at the UMass Boston Infant Parent Mental Health Post Graduate Certificate Program in which I have been participating for the pas...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day

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My posts have been less frequent as I am down to the wire with the final proofreading of my forthcoming book, Keeping Your Child in Mind , w...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Why is this Post Different From All Other Posts?

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My son's bar mitzvah is this September (yes-two weeks after my book comes out!!) and so despite the fact that we are not a particularly ...