Category: Insight

I am pleased to be invited to speak in Madrid as part of a Promises event on addiction. At the speaking event, I hope to bring a sense of the importance of proactive awareness to international community of the potency and regularity of illicit drug use, that others call ‘recreational’. So many of our youngContinue reading Madrid Conference in November

A week of conference meetings in Birmingham UK with British Psychological Society (BPS), and to finalize my inauguration as a UK Chartered Psychologist is based on one premise: the future of my work will be through a collaborative international practice in providing support to families across continents. APA and BPS, it’s time to set upContinue reading A Chartered Psychologist Call for International Reciprocity

It is unlikely that anything immediate, albeit grief can come from the tragedy at Isla Vista. I saw this type of problem coming decades ago when I published my dissertation, “What Makes Teens Tick? A Hybrid Health Belief Model to Understanding Adolescent Help-Seeking Behavior”. The core of my dissertation was to construct an instrument thatContinue reading Aftermath: Isla Vista

Few residential recovery centers blend so well into the neighborhood landscape. One notices the elementary school on the other side of the road from Beacon House. Downtown is only a stone’s throw, and Beacon House is historic –over 100 years, to be exact. The staff is stellar and stoic: Everyone in the community knows BeaconContinue reading A Beacon of Hope…..

In spending time today with a young adolescent man and a young woman at Oakley School over lunch it became apparent that who they came into contact during treatment in wilderness and boarding school made all the difference in their minds as to the quality of care. The pieces of the treatment plan may notContinue reading “Fit” in therapeutic placement is what it’s all about