The Executive Development Program, or EDP, brings to the individual executive the opportunity to achieve professional and personal goals previously thought to be unattainable. This 16-week program is engineered by a personal Mentor, using state-of-the-art psychological principles. Breaking Through “The Wall” The process can be likened to Olympic training. The master coach takes the star […]
These notes on “The Care and Feeding of the Temper Monster” are offered to parents everywhere who, unlike Rafael‘s parents, enjoy the Temper Monster and want to encourage his presence. I know there are such people because only last week I saw a bumper sticker on a pickup truck which read, “My kid can beat up […]
For my entire career, I have been involved in working with oppositional and acting out children. One of the things I need to know early on is what types of approaches parents have tried prior to their presenting for treatment. Invariably I hear such things as “we’ve tried talking to him, we’ve taken privileges away, […]
The single most prevalent referral problem in my work with children has been overly frequent, troubling displays of temper in children who are old enough to have developed other means to manage frustration. During the second and third years of life, the child’s mental capacity can create much more beautiful sequences of behavior in their […]
Adults who were abused as children typically have one or more problems to contend with, depending on the type and severity of abuse, including: difficulty trusting or being close with others; suspiciousness or paranoia; suppressed or acted-out rage; depression which may include suicidal “gestures” such as self-mutilation or actual suicide attempts; anxiety or panic attacks; […]
Some people think that sports psychologists are only concerned with finding ways to remedy athletic or competitive problems that athletes encounter with their sports. The recent publicity involving some Atlanta Braves players and their consultation with sports psychology has helped to fuel this misconception. While sports psychology does indeed offer a wide rance of problem-solving […]
Relocation has a significant and different impact on every member of the family. Since Atlanta is the site of so many companies’ corporate headquarters, there is a significant flow of middle- and upper-level managers and executives moving into and out of Atlanta. We have worked with numerous families who found, once they completed the physical […]
Men have often been reluctant to admit to the need for help. For example, I often hear from women that their partners won’t stop and ask for directions when lost on the highway. Why is it that men are not conditioned to seek support from others? As little boys, they are often told to be […]
In the late 1970’s, John Grinder (a professor at UC Santa Cruz) and Richard Bandler (a computer sciences professor interested in psychology) got together and became interested in how psychotherapy worked. Specifically, they asked the question, “If these fantastically gifted therapists (Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir, Salvador Minuchin, and others) all get great results, how come […]
Having worked with hundreds of couples over the last 20 years, I have developed a set of beliefs or ideas which, if adopted, help to ensure that a relationship will last. Here is a list of them. 1) Arguing helps nothing, so don’t do it. I like to say that I never met the person […]
