Peter Clark, Ph.D. - Licensed Psychologist

11/23/2023

https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/374250/9789240084278-eng.pdf?sequence=1

07/11/2023

FDA has approved Lexapro for the treatment of anxiety in children as young as 7. Please don't!

12/02/2022

Recess is important!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306452209001171?via%3Dihub

The effect of an acute bout of moderate treadmill walking on behavioral and neuroelectric indices of the cognitive control of attention and applied aspects of cognition involved in school-based academic performance were assessed. A within-subjects design ...

08/15/2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisonescalante/2020/08/11/researchers-doubt-that-certain-mental-disorders-are-disorders-at-all/

What if mental disorders like anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t mental disorders at all?

03/28/2020

Under the prevailing circumstances, I am set up for 'remote' meetings and consultations through FaceTime. Skype and Zoom. Drop me a line if you want further details.

08/08/2019

https://news.osu.edu/warning-to-adults-children-notice-everything/

Adults are really good at paying attention only to what you tell them to – but children don’t ignore anything. That difference can actually help children do better than adults in some learning situations, a new study suggests. Researchers surprised adults and 4- and 5-year-old children participa...

08/01/2019

https://childmind.org/article/how-to-help-yourself-get-organized/

Realistic tips for teenagers who struggle with organizational skills, from someone who's been there.

05/21/2019

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/27/the-troubled-history-of-psychiatry?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Magazine_Daily_052019&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9f0393f92a404692d0915&cndid=50514063&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Daily

Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder.

01/25/2019

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/01/23/blinded-by-ideology-people-find-it-difficult-to-think-logically-about-arguments-that-contradict-their-politics/

By Jesse Singal. People should dispense themselves of the notion that when they sit down to reason a problem through carefully, the act of doing so automatically shields them from the effects of po…

10/02/2018

Language and communication impairments in adolescents in custody is much higher than in the general population, estimates range from 60-90% compared to 7-12%.

10/31/2017

https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/10/31/teen-depression-in-us-jumps-by-nearly-half-in-10-years/128149.html

A new study finds a startling rise in depression among all Americans, with youth demonstrating the most rapid increase over the last decade. Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy found that from 2005 to 20...

10/16/2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/magazine/why-are-more-american-teenagers-than-ever-suffering-from-severe-anxiety.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine

Parents, therapists and schools are struggling to figure out whether helping anxious teenagers means protecting them or pushing them to face their fears.

06/18/2015

http://bit.ly/1Typ3WC This seems self evident. I wish our judges would read this.

Teenagers who are incarcerated tend to have substantially worse outcomes later in life than those who avoid serving time for similar offenses, according to a distinctive new study co-authored by an MIT scholar.

02/12/2015

If you know someone who has difficulty reading reading, check this font out. Have not tried it out, but it looks intriguing.
http://bit.ly/1FDnw9w

The Dyslexia Font makes reading easy and enjoyable for people with dyslexia. Experience the ease of reading and download the font for free

01/20/2015

http://bit.ly/1Gq73tv
"The study may also help shift doctors from illness categories to symptomatic diagnosis" - a long overdue shift

Schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder have more in common than previously thought. Not only are they linked through shared genes, the genetic mutations associated with them also work...

07/30/2014

The trauma of parenthood

http://nyti.ms/1obnkGG

Millions of new mothers — and fathers — show signs of clinical depression.

12/19/2013

http://bit.ly/1fI9hUK

The relationship between bipolar disorder and ADHD remains unclear; however, this combined condition may represent an important genetic and clinical subtype with distinct psychopathology, familiality, and treatment response.

06/27/2013

Unspecified Mental Disorder - It's what you have if you don't meet the criteria for any other disorder http://on.wsj.com/12ljrVI

In The Wall Street Journal, Leonard Sax writes that psychiatry's diagnostic bible has broadened the definition of mental illness to absurdity.