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Ironically, at the same time that low-stimulus environments are being touted as essential for special needs students, researchers are also…
Multisystemic treatment, or MST, is a comprehensive treatment model for adolescents with behavioral and emotional issues. An MST approach to…
This series of blogs is designed to serve as a reminder of some basic building blocks for family health. These are not treatment modalities with…
For young adults, in particular, self-advocacy is a critical life skill that has emotional, vocational, and academic implications. In this blog…
If you’re the parent of an adolescent, one of the keys to effectively caring for your child, especially if her normal adolescent anguish is…
This fall, professors throughout the nation will be referencing a now-famous cheat sheet to help them better communicate with and connect to their…
This week’s tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, has most parents feeling a variety of difficult emotions—sorrow, anger,…
And Other Surprising Messages to Build Adolescent Self-Esteem
At the end of my first semester in 1992, I was sent to the principal’s…
My 85 year old father visited recently and we spent several days hiking, eating good food, and arguing about politics. It was a lot of…
How often do you hear the phrases “I think…”, “It feels like…”, “I would say…”, or “Somewhere around…” when talking about a…