Evening Lecture
Evening Lecture at Mesa Community College: How to Raise a Responsible Child, Larry Waldman Ph.D.
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04, 2016
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10, 2015
Tips On Managing Anxiety
Anxiety is the second most common form of mental health disorder, next to depression. In many cases, though, depressed individuals also struggle with anxiety and many anxious people frequently feel depressed. Upwards of 20 million persons in the US regularly deal with anxiety, it has been estimated. Anxiety often is described as a feeling of tension and/or fear. Some [...]
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09, 2015
Why You Cannot Afford To Practice Without An Office Assistant
For the past twenty years when I present to mental health providers on how to develop, manage, and market a private practice I always ask members of the audience to raise their hand if they practice without an assistant. Depending on the group and location, typically half or even more of the providers acknowledge practicing solo When I question [...]
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09, 2015
Achieving “OK” Is “Great” In Marriage
Ironworks Inc. and Acme Steel have been doing business together for twenty-five years. Ironworks manufactures steel widgets and Acme sells raw steel. These two companies have worked together for all this time for two basic reasons 1. They need each other. The money is right. Ironworks believes they are buying their raw materials at a reasonable price and Acme [...]
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09, 2015
Changing Undesirable Behavior In Our Kids
Back in my undergraduate years I took a required course for all psychology majors entitled Experimental Psychology. Early in that course in a lab we were each instructed to train a white rat to turn right in a T-maze. (A successful trial was defined as the rat not going past a line on the left side of the maze [...]
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08, 2015
Forming Our Relationships Backwards
The divorce rate in the U.S. continues to hover around 50 percent and the dissolution incidence when one or both of the parties have been previously married is about 65 percent. This is a national travesty. The amount of emotional angst and money spent, not to mention the extent of trauma brought to the involved children, is immeasurable. Finding [...]
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08, 2015
Take Your Prosac, See Your Shrink, Then Put On Your Running Shoes
Depression and anxiety are, by far, the most common mental health problems. Nearly 20 percent of the US population struggles with or will struggle with one or both of these problems. The most common treatment today for these issues is medication—typically prescribed by the primary care physician (not a psychiatrist). This treatment is considered a Biological intervention, as the [...]
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Video Games: The Newest Plague
Video games are like crack cocaine to today’s youth. Many children, especially boys between the ages of 11 and 16, spend untold hours involved with these electronic games, often from the time they come home from school until they finally go to bed. Far too many kids spend essentially entire weekends (and most of their holiday and summer breaks) [...]
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