I am a licensed psychologist and worked 33 years with the Philadelphia School District, 22 years in the Research and Evaluation Office and 11 years as a school counselor. I authored Changes: A self-help book for adolescents and co-authored Energy Tapping: How to rapidl...

The goal of this blog is to encourage the development of healthier students as part of the educational program. There has been resistance to this type of change as dealing with student health problems has not been part of traditional education, especially mental health...

It has been said that anger is an emotion that makes you feel as if you matter

(Merle Shain).  So when you feel sad or helpless, anger is one response to dealing with that situation.

A recent article examined the roots of American anger (Charles Duhigg, January, 2019, Th...

We are all a bit guilty in creating or maintaining many of the problems we want to resolve.

A man leaves a bar drunk at 2am and stops at an ATM and gets $500. It doesn’t look like $500, so he stumbles down the street counting his money over and over. Eventually he walks...

When I look back at how our country has changed, these are some of the issues that have created our divided country. 

Making America great is a popular slogan, but greatness is not accomplished by just a strong stock market or by getting involved in multiple dangerous c...

Helping Americans feel better about themselves and learning to cope with problems is the answer to many of the issues confronting our society.  We are a divided country that struggles to deal with the misinformation that abounds on the Internet and cable news. In 2007...