Sleep affects all aspects of our lives, so it's important to get good sleep. This is especially true for children, but they often struggle to get good quality sleep. This episode covers 7 tips to help your child fall asleep and stay asleep.

Episode 20: Tips to Improve Sleep

We all experience somatic symptoms to varying extents, yet it's a complicated topic. Here I briefly discuss somatic symptoms in kids, what they are and are not, and what to do about them.

Episode 19: Somatic Symptoms in Kids

Many parents try timeouts, but they aren't always effective. That's often because the timeouts aren't used in the best way. This episode summarizes the best way to use timeouts effectively based on how kids think.

Episode 18: How to use Timeouts Effectively

Mindfulness is beneficial, but many struggle to be mindful. But that can be from misunderstanding what mindfulness really means. This episode discusses how to think about mindfulness, and how you can incorporate it into your day-to-day life.

Episode 17: Mindfulness

Kids with ADHD are at risk for later diagnoses of ODD and CD. Many people become confused when these diagnoses overlap, so here I help explain why they do.

Episode 16: ADHD, ODD, and CD

Play therapy is a common component of therapy with young kids (and sometimes teens). Here, I discuss why it is beneficial for the therapy process.

Episode 15: Play and Art Therapy

Grief is difficult for children and adolescents to work through, and it can look very different from child-to-child. Here, I discuss some things to consider when working with a child or adolescent who is grieving.

Episode 14: Grief

Executive functions are a crucial set of skills. To help promote their development in kids, you need to have an understanding of what they are and what will help. Both things are covered in this episode.

Episode 13: Executive Functions

Neuropsychological testing is very helpful, but not well known. Here, I discuss what it is and when you might want to consider being tested.

Episode 12: Neuropsychological Testing

In this episode I discuss the benefits of emotion identification, how you can help kids learn the skill, and how you can help them learn coping skills in fun ways

Episode 11: Promoting Emotion Identification

A show created by a post-doctoral fellow in clinical child psychology, covering helpful information for parents, students, and anyone interested in child psychology.

After attending SPPAC 2016 several weeks ago, I wanted to give my summary of the conference and include some of my general impressions.

Episode 10: SPPAC 2016

This week is SPPAC, a great conference I will be attending. This episode explains the conference, and how you can follow me to get updates about the conference!

Episode 9.5: Brief Announcement (SPPAC)

Pediatric psychology is a specialty within child psychology which focuses on youth with medical conditions. This episode describes what pediatric psychologists research, and how we work with families.

Episode 9: Pediatric Psychology

This episode covers what graduate students in clinical child psychology learn about, and what caregivers can expect if they bring their child for psychotherapy.

Episode 8: What is Child Psychology?

Building on the previous episode, I discuss how I keep things organized, what tools I use, and how I use that organization to build helpful routines that keep me productive.

Episode 7: Organization and Routines (Part 2)

Organization and routines have a lot of benefits, for adults and children. By working to improve both, you can help yourself and your child in a number of ways. Here, I discuss why these two things are important, and how to start improving them.

Episode 6: Organization and Routines

Behavior problems are a common reason parents seek therapy for their child. Here, I present the ABC's of behavior, which help you to begin understanding and improving your child's behavior.

Episode 5: The ABC's of Behavior

Learning is important through childhood and adolescence. Want to help your child learn better? Here are my tips for parents.

Episode 4: How to Help Your Child Learn

Have a child (or someone in your life) who has difficult behavior? It can be easy to focus on the negative behaviors, but here I suggest a resolution to try something different: focus on the positive behaviors.

Episode 3: Resolution for Parents

Tips from a doctoral student about what to expect during the graduate school interview process, and how to get through it.

Episode 2: Graduate School Interviews

I am an elementary school teacher and I deal with all of the challenges discussed in this podcast on a daily basis. This show has given me a deeper understanding towards my students’ behaviors and has inspired me to change some of my own practices to make our classroom an inclusive environment that helps all children feel safe and successful.

Great resource for teachers

This is a small area of study that many people overlook. This is exactly what I needed. I often feel like I need to talk about these things. Often I feel like people don't care about these issues. I am glad I found this.

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